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BlackeyedSusan · 21/03/2022 10:18

Good morning. Come and chat. Somewhere to escape to if the rest of life is too overwhelming..or just to relax.
Help yourself to Brew Cake

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FloorWipes · 17/08/2022 22:40

@ofwarren I’m sending best wishes. This must be a really difficult time for you and your DS. Really hope you both get lots of time for recovery from all of it.

BoardLikeAMirror · 18/08/2022 07:40

I hope you and your DS are doing well this morning, ofwarren.

Bergamotte · 23/08/2022 19:47

Hope you and DS are recovered (at least partially) from that ordeal, ofwarren. It sounds awful.

Just having a little grumble to myself because I turned on the oven to make cake to welcome my partner home (he'll be back this evening after a couple of weeks away) and found a mouldy, forgotten chickpea bake in there.
I must have turned off the oven and just forgotten to take it out last week. Made three of them and remembered to take out the other two 🙄
It's annoying because it's such a waste of effort, waste of ingredients, meant I had less batch-cooked than I should have. And mostly because now the oven stinks of mould so if I make cakes in it there's a high chance they would taste gross, or actually be contaminated.

Luckily I hadn't told him I'd make cake so can still do it as a surprise next week or something after the oven has had a good clean and air.

And I can make good use of the time saved. Can use it to clean the shards of broken glass and sticky, sickly sweet smelling drink out of my rucksack, lunch bag and laptop case after I YET AGAIN let my bag overbalance while trying to pack and pay for shopping. 🙄 (Had put the glass bottle into my bag, which of course fell down to the floor with that side downwards. Thought everything was ok for a couple of seconds until the bright pink rhubarb-ginger beer started pouring out all over the supermarket floor.)

I make these daft mistakes all the time and although they're fairly small issues, there always seem to be some which take a lot of time and energy to fix. Sigh.

LoveToWearADress · 23/08/2022 20:45

Oh @Bergamotte this is like a day in my life too. Luckily most of the time I can laugh it off.

Today's one was really bizarre. I went into town to buy olive oil and a birthday present. I came back with 14 yogurts which were on special offer.

Wrapping paper but no present.

No olive oil either.

It's like I arrive in town freshly minted, landed from planet Xorg Autie and have no flipping clue what I'm doing.

interestingdays · 28/08/2022 01:04

Hi
Just found this chat thread. I have ASD and ADHD. Hi all!

BoardLikeAMirror · 28/08/2022 01:07

Welcome to the thread, interestingdays .

interestingdays · 28/08/2022 06:10

Thank you

Tired2tired · 02/11/2022 17:57

Possibly fitting as it's just gone halloween! But was hoping to reseruct the chat thread! 🧟 How's everyone's week going?

BoardLikeAMirror · 02/11/2022 18:29

Not great - recovering from a major meltdown that has left me exhausted, just want to stay in bed.

Tired2tired · 02/11/2022 18:48

Oh no hope you can have some time in bed to recharge. I hate the aftermath of a meltdown it just feels like I'm a battery on empty (at least to me!)

WeirdPookah · 03/11/2022 09:09

I'm feeling sorry for myself, we have some steep stairs up to a third floor loft conversion, and feeling stupid tired from the clocks changing I guess, I fell, whilst holding a potty of wee, hurt my toe badly, it's a revolting colour. Could have been a lot worse though.

And feeling quietly optimistic, but also filled with dread, at my new Reception starter befriending a girl in her class who is Autistic. I have to wonder if my little girl understands her better since she is used to my way of communicating.
Filled with dread because I don't have a great time making new acquaintances or friends or with keeping them.

LoveToWearADress · 03/11/2022 09:27

I'm like you @BoardLikeAMirror I'm in post meltdown territory. This time it feels quite bad, maybe like a nervous breakdown. My DM was recently diagnosed autistic and it has helped me to understand her and our relationship better however there was some abuse around her OCD compulsions and I do feel very sad about that still.

bunglegeorgeandzippy11 · 03/11/2022 14:06

Hey all, it's my first time posting on this thread. Hope you're all having a good day. I don't know why but I just feel lonely today, I've had flaky friends throughout my life and it's kinda all hitting me now. Been trying to focus on small things like even watching a tv show. When I get into something I enjoy it, but it's just trying to calm my mind with ADHD :(

Tired2tired · 03/11/2022 16:34

Hey @bunglegeorgeandzippy11 glad you've joined the chat thread!
:( it sucks about flakey friends, what TV show are you watching?

@WeirdPookah hope your toe is feeling better!

crackofdoom · 03/11/2022 18:01

Hello folks!
I haven't posted on here for ages because, for a while , Mumsnet randomly shut me out. Then , just as randomly, let me back in again 🤷‍♀️

Tired2tired · 04/11/2022 11:45

Hey @crackofdoom glad you've managed to get logged back in!

BlackeyedGruesome · 04/11/2022 18:28

Someone<ahem> is very confused about who started this thread. Oh yeah, it was me!

ASD is a bugger. GrinBlush

<Recently bereaved hiding under duvet>

Septemberbeginnings · 12/11/2022 20:02

@bunglegeorgeandzippy11 I hope you're feeling better today. I have days like that too. The only way I can calm my mind is with music - either playing my instrument or listening to music with headphones. 8D music is quite good for focusing I find.

Last night I had one task to do - write a quick email. Nothing complicated at all. During the time it took me to write the email I booked train tickets to London, booked to go to one of the museums and decided which exhibits we would see. I also decided that the kettle and toaster needed a good clean along with the fridge.

I did eventually send the quite brief email and look on it as a blessing in a way because if I hadn't sat down to compose the few lines of the email then the other jobs wouldn't have got half done and I'd still be thinking for months about booking a weekend in London.

I also have an annoying Christmas song constantly playing in my head the last few days and other music isn't cancelling it out. I made the mistake of telling my DS this yesterday and now, every time he sees me, he sings this bloody song!

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