Posts made by tek

My own story:

Before I did a few years of intensive trauma therapy, I was a lot like OP. There are a few people who won't play with me because of my behavior back then, and I don't blame them. I was a fucking shitshow.

However, I'm proof that with work, someone can become a whole lot less of a shitshow and become someone people enjoy playing with and like having around. Yes, I am also on the spectrum, as well as having C-PTSD. I promise, it can get better with hard work and appropriate medication and you'll feel better and others will enjoy having you around, too.

@A-B said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

Not in position to or would.

Here. Work through this workbook. You are in dire need of distress tolerance skills, emotional regulation skills and interpersonal effectiveness skills.

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@Rinel They have their own entrance, but it still makes me fucking anxious.

My fucking landlord reopened up the Airbnb in the basement as soon as he could. There are two or three new tenants down there every week. This is totally cool and not fucking terrifying in a time of quarantine.

Yo, so who wants to be Animal Crossing friends?

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Today in mediocre mantrums:

1. Yeshivish guy who claims that the medieval rebbes understood microbes and his intelligence is superior to mine and also no one has ever died in front of a Torah
2. Guy I defriended comes back to my profile to laugh react my one public post and then block me.

Someone needs to calm their boys down.

So I've been chronically under-employed for my entire working life. I hold a MA in Egyptology. Right now, I teach Latin and Ancient Egyptian language classes online to homeschooled kids. It's work, but it doesn't pay very well. I earned less than $9000 last year.

I don't do well in most traditional workplaces. A combination of autism and PTSD makes it hard for me in the workplace, and I have never had an employer who didn't find the firing me was superior than actually providing appropriate accommodations. It's not that I'm not able to work, it's that I'm never seen as hireable for positions that actually suit me or retainable in the positions I have had.

I don't know what to do. I feel useless and worthless.

@JinShei At some point, I'm going to sell the extras. I'll post here when I do.

Newest hat

@Testament and the strain I got is the fast-mutating type

The flu can die in a fire. I got my shot and everything.

@JinShei all I can see are my mistakes. I made fewer on the first hat. But thank you!

Finished another of those spiral hats for my sister. Gonna make a third for her wife.

@Macha Never heard of it!

It is hard to take a picture of the top of your own head

@surreality Sadly, I rarely get to Mass. I'm in Upstate NY and my dad lives in Vermont and there's a tiny yarn store I always stop in to pick up handspun/hand-dyed local yarn when I go to visit him.

https://greenmountainfibers.com/

Just got a sweet deal on some discontinued Noro on Yarn.com. One skein of Kureyon, four skeins of Silk Garden, $42 after shipping.

As one of our resident Yidden, thank you. There aren't a lot of places we feel safe these days.

@surreality I once screwed around with a drop spindle and my last hat was made with handspun, hand-dyed yarn. I keep my stash manageable by buying only artisanal yarns. No Lion or Red Heart or Berocco for me.

@surreality I love colorful, highly-saturated hand-dyes and Noro is the closest I will get to a mass-produced yarn. I'm a snob.