Like many other autistic and/or disabled people I will spend Christmas on my own and while I appreciate my alone time and the atmosphere and the silence of it, I know it can be difficult and hurtful.

So I would like to connect with other people who spend Christmas on their own or experience feelings of loneliness during these days, by interacting with this post.

That can be just leaving and receiving a virtual hug or telling each other about the gifts you received or gave yourself during the year, maybe share a piece of music, write about your favourite video game or any other special interest. You can do this in private mode (English or German), I know that interacting with groups can be difficult, impossible sometimes, but every now and then I write posts like this during a moment of bravery and I already found amazing online friends by doing so.

Let's support each other in a world that makes building connection so difficult and feelings of loneliness so common.

Boosts are very much appreciated. Thank you.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #disabled #ChronicallyIll #neurodivergent #MentalHealth

@KaCi I am spending Christmas mostly alone, I will be dedicating an hour on both the Eve and the Day to a shift on the 2SLGBTQIA support line I am currently volunteering with.

I don't personally mind this and have plans with family for the weekend after the actual days, but I appreciate many people feel lonely being alone this time of year and don't get to have plans made with people close to the days instead, like me. I have spent some years entirely alone.

My current special interest is The Murderbot Diaries, a book series about a bot/human hybrid Security Unit with guns in its arms who hacked the thing keeping its free will locked down some four years ago, but had to keep this fact hidden, until it meets a group of humans who treat it like a person for the first time in its life. It is sarcastic, quippy, very funny, and wants to watch entertainment media all day. It reads as ace+aro+agender+autistic. It exists in a queernormative universe. Murderbot fandom is keeping me sane.

@Bel_tamtu @KaCi murderbot has been my recurring comfort read for a couple of years now

@esnyder @Bel_tamtu @KaCi

I am also re reading murder bot <3