The survey for my partner's PhD research on #AutisticInertia has already done quite well, although there have been no new responses in the last couple of weeks.

It closes at the end of tomorrow (31st March), so if you would like to contribute your experiences to this research, here's your chance; click the link to get started! https://www.qualtrics.manchester.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_bJl0HjTghBcg71Y

(The "do it now principle" sometimes works for some of us who experience inertia...)

#ActuallyAutistic @autistics

I think of autistic inertia in me like a rubber band. I have these items that, day after day, pile on as reminders they need to be done. That is, until the tension is so strong I'm able to "do the thing", and then the tension building for that starts anew.

Housekeeping is one that I struggle with. I value and cherish a clean house, and know it reflects on my value system. But it is so hard to do the work until I've invested days/weeks dwelling on it in order to have the energy to do it. And then I have to start all over again.

@autistics #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticInertia

There was a morning as I distinctly remember waking up & it being morning.

Somewhere in between get up, sorting my hair, moisturising, finally fixing a not functioning pCloud app on the PC & going to sort breakfast it changed to being the afternoon.

This is how my plans for my days just get shrunk down & the guilt trip that I now don't have the time to do half my things is a spoon (& probably dice) thief.

Will keep plugging away at somehow being more useful in the AM but it's going to take some time.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #ADHD #AutisticInertia

1 thing I've been working really hard on is being more #neurotypical with #work

Not in the socializing watercooler way because #Autism says f that noise

More in the frequent, mindless scrolling the internet way so I'm not working at 150% for 9 hours straight

So far I'm still working at 150% but sometimes I remember to make food during these forced breaks. Occasionally I even remember to eat it before the end of the day.

#AutisticInertia

Just realized why I can't do #yoga even though I want & need to -

because I found the right 1 & it worked

#FML

Between #Burnout #alexithymia #Perimenopause and being pretty much disconnected from my body all the time, yoga is almost like a guided #meltdown

I know it's good & I crave those releases but damn its asking a lot of my #AutisticInertia to get it to voluntarily take a stroll through the ruins of Trauma Town.

Trying to shift into work mode, with no success so far.

Not even work-work. Fun-work.

#ADHDproblems #actuallyAutistic #executiveFunctions #autisticInertia