My #FigureSkating coach is wonderful for many reasons but especially:, today I told her I was having a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day where everything I practised was just frustrating me to the point of tears -- though I noted the point-of-tears probably actually signals I'm needing to eat more. So she said, okay, in that case let's not do any of that, let's teach you something new, then you *can't* be frustrated.

She then proceeded to teach me a back outside bracket, a forward inside counter, and back inside three-turn, among other things. And lo, I was not frustrated, and in fact was cheered enough that afterwards I went back to practising some of my frustrating things (a little bit anyway...).

And now I'm going to go and get a giant lunch and probably an iron tablet for good measure.

Seven years of autistic burnout and the loss of the athletic capacity I used to enjoy, and my body has finally rested enough that I can sometimes exercise without getting a migraine/collapsing in exhaustion for several days afterward. I have been rewarded with the revival of a special interest from childhood that I now have the adult agency to pursue: skating!

I have done some ice skating each winter for the past three(? or so?), which my joints liked but my sad muscles could barely hold me upright for. This year, my muscles decided to adapt to the exercise instead of punishing me for it, but the ice wasn’t reliable enough to skate as much as I wanted. Thus, the acquisition of wheels.

I am hooked. This is my new Thing. I study this Thing every day, and do the Thing as often as my body and the weather allow. Do you do this Thing? Do you do it on ice, or wheels, or both? Do you want to be friends?

#skating #InlineSkates #rollerblading #IceSkating #FigureSkating #slalom #RollerSkating #autism #SpecialInterest #recovery #adulting

🥇 Mistrz olimpijski Michaił Szajdorow odpoczywa i nie wystąpi w marcowych mistrzostwach świata w Pradze.

Zabraknie więc starcia z Iliją Malininem, który nie sprostał oczekiwaniom podczas programu dowolnego na #MilanoCortina2026 i uplasował się daleko od podium.

#figureskating