The holidays cause many interruptions to my routines, which results in so much frustration. This is just me venting about the craziness I feel at having my routines interrupted consistently at this time of year.

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My preference for sameness extends to every aspect of my life. Learning that this is an autistic trait has allowed me to accept this about myself.

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Doesn’t catastrophic and neurotic kind of mean the same thing? Is there really that much of a difference? I am a catastrophic thinker on pretty much a daily basis. Is this an autistic thing or just plain neurotic?

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It's a few days before Christmas. People are out getting last-minute gifts. There's also a winter storm approaching, so even more people are out. And I'm autistic. Need I say more?

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I went from having a purpose for many years to not having one for many years to now having rediscovered it.

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Learning that I'm autistic has been so liberating. I changed some stuff immediately because it was getting too hard to keep the mask up, so autism gave me the courage to just be me whenever possible.

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To me, meltdowns are like minefields. You better step carefully or you might trigger one. Yesterday my minefield was a car dealership, but good news... I avoided a meltdown! This is me just talking about what I did to prepare for the trip to the car dealership, which was hours away, and the amount of time I spent making sure I didn't cause a scene.

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More of a lighthearted episode about things ordinary people seem to understand or be okay with, but I just don't. Is it because I'm autistic?

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I have such difficulty being interrupted when I’m doing something. It's like I short circuit. Small barriers like these are so frustrating and I often feel like I can’t control my responses to them.

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I don't know how helpful this episode is because it's just me talking about how I dealt with things in the past and I am still dumbfounded on how I got this far in life without knowing I'm autistic. Would services have helped me? I don't know because I forgot to talk about that.

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