Rainbow’s Week, Sept 7 2025

A mutual on social media posts weekly blog posts about his life, and I thought that was a cool idea. So I’m trying it out.

My name is Azure, and I’m a member of a plural system, which means multiple people in one bodymind. We share the name Rainbow and they/them pronouns. We are multiply disabled (autism, PTSD, ME/CFS, and others) and require assistive devices and caregivers.

This week was rough. Our mental health issues got triggered 2 times very badly, in addition to our baseline of small triggers from everyday life. Our sleep schedule is just getting back to normal from the second trigger, which kept us up 8 or so hours after our usual bedtime.

We’ve also been struggling with getting enough food and water because of executive dysfunction. We physically have food and water, but our executive dysfunction makes it so there’s a mental barrier to actually consuming it. It’s not so severe that it’s an immediate problem, but it really needs to resolve in the next couple months. We have some ideas.

On a more positive note, we’ve been trying a new setup for tasks to help recover from autistic burnout. We’ve been trying to dedicate 1 hour per day (excluding bad days), while we have a caregiver over to help, to do tasks. Outside of that hour, we have to postpone all but the most urgent tasks until the next daily tasking hour. This has been semi-successful! We’re still working on it.

A less conscious decision to help with autistic burnout has been that I seem to be frontstuck. That means I’m in charge of the body and I can’t hand it off to one of my headmates (the other people who share my bodymind) even if I try. Usually, this is a problem, because most of us aren’t designed to handle that well. But my role in the system seems to be taking over when we’re in autistic burnout, so it should be fine! Last time it lasted a month.

What else… we went to a food bank? Oh, also, we got some ideas for how to wash our hair in a way that is more accessible to us. We have sensory processing disorder from autism, and certain textures are so bad for us that we’d rather endure physical pain. We’re going to try baking soda and apple cider vinegar (not together – we’re going to do it with a rinse in between) and hopefully that’ll work better. We already tried the baking soda, since we already had it in our pantry, and I think it worked great!

I’ve also been earning little bits of money by doing paid surveys and stuff. I wrote a blog post about the sites we’ve been using.

Finally, I made a website! I’m posting this on both WordPress and our new website. I’m super excited. I followed a tutorial. It’s not fancy by any means, but I’m very proud of it. It’s functional and I even changed the colors!

Thank you for reading!

#autisticBurnout #disability #executiveDysfunction #plurality #rainbowSWeek #sensoryProcessingDisorder

Walking at night with a head full of Cannabis is so deeply soothing. The world is mine for a few hours.

#sensoryprocessingdisorder #braininjury

Sinking down under
Never-ending input storms,
A sensory flood.

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#Haiku #ActuallyAutistic #SensoryProcessingDisorder #Neurodiverse #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAuDHD

If you're tempted to tell a friend that they eat like a child because of a limited palate; don't. It's ableist.

I'm someone who is now 60 and has a very limited palate due to autism and sensory issues as well as trauma over food (corporal punishment if not cleaning the plate type of trauma).

I can't speak for others but for myself. That said, I have a lot of regret that I cannot eat wider array of food and I feel shamed when people comment on me picking something out of a meal that I can't tolerate. I'm not doing it for fun. But because I want to be able to enjoy the food without gagging.

Don't shame people for how they eat. You don't know their inner struggles and shaming them just exacerbates the shame they already feel for being that way in an omnivorous society.

#autism #ActuallyAutistic #SensoryProcessingDisorder #ableism #food

As Samhain and Halloween approach, balancing festivities with sensitivity toward neurodivergent community members, particularly those with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), fosters a more inclusive environment and ensures everyone can comfortably enjoy the spooky season.

https://wildhunt.org/2024/10/the-neurospicy-and-the-spooky-season-keeping-the-light-on-for-everyone.html

#neurospicy #spooky #halloween #neurodivergent #sensoryoverload #sensoryprocessingdisorder #samhain #allhallowseve