Not to mention the added stress of being out of my normal environment, routines being disturbed, social customs changing around (first regionally and then double so because they treat me like a foreign tourist and not a normal person), a lot of new sensory input, not a lot of alone time, and all the other stressors that are making all the other stuff just a lot to handle.
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