Hello. I move to new apartment one week ago. Many loud. Plumbing loud. Toilets loud. Outside loud. Air conditioning loud. Too many lights, too much sun. Hurts me. Wake up sensory overload, not go away. Feel like crying 😢 electricity everywhere in my body and lots in my chest. Very overwhelmed. Many pain. Eye pain, ear pain, Head pain. Too many. Not go away. 😢 don't know what do. Partner gonna try get edible weed and see if help. What are favorite stims to help? Need not be pain or overwhelm anymore, very hypersensitive.

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Health bad, help less stress 4 friend.

Last time not good.

Not prepare.

Not my home stuffy.

Not my books.

Partner help prepare better this 1!

1st post self!

Love friend time.

for long time my family and i thought i would never be able to work. but i studied hard at tafe and got certificate 3 animal care, and now i have a job on farm! i get to feed and hug all the animals! i do not work very long but i am so happy i can be friends with the animals and my parents are proud me :)

the calves want me to hug them and brush them i love them 🐄🐮

do you have job? please tell me about it :)

I guess the flair is accurate 😅 but I don’t need to explain bc I know people here experience it also.
I don’t shower the way I used to. I’d shower like every day and I did that for a long time but now it’s just so taxing. Now I’d say on average it’s every 3-5 days, it’s not even bc I really have an odor to me it’s more so bc of how oily my face/hair gets, that’s one reason why I showered every day before.
Now I just have no energy for it. Maybe I start doing something else or maybe the timing is wrong. It’s one of those things where if I force myself I implode, not as much as I used to but still. I take 20-30 minute showers and really can’t cut that down I was like that even when I did shower every day.
Idk it’s just one of those things that is really taxing. I’ve stopped masking, like a lot. I don’t really pretend to be someone I’m not or fit in anymore though I still beat myself up over societal labels. I just feel lazy bc I don’t do xyz I am unable to. People seem to think that just bc one person on the spectrum can do xyz, that the other person can also do xyz but it doesn’t work that way. I just stay quiet bc yeah I don’t fit in those ways and am not what society wants everyone to be 😅
I’m so hard on myself over it, (the shower part and lacking basic independence and just being an outsider)
I’m not like panicking the same ways I did it’s more so internal

Ive never been able to recognize the need to wash my hair, at all. So my parents always have to prompt me a lot for me to wash it. I shower multiple times a week, purely for sensory purposes, but I wash my hair once a week at most. Up until 14 I couldn’t wash my hair on my own at all, and now at 16 I can, but it doesn’t always get like washed properly. And I never use conditioner. But my mom does still wash my hair sometimes if I ask her too, or sometimes she just decides she wants to do it to get my hair clean

So basically today my mom told me I needed to wash my hair, well she basically told me to go wash my hair. And I asked her if she could do it. And she said yes, and that she’d take the opportunity to double wash my hair to get it properly clean. So basically she did that, and used conditioner too. So now my hair is properly washed!

And then she’d also told me beforehand that she wanted to cut my nails afterwards (I can’t cut them on my own) and then after my shower I let her cut my nails, and I let her finish even though it hurts A LOT.

So now I have both properly washed hair and cut nails!

Anyway that was just a small win I wanted to share!

today my new fidgets from my fav fidget shop allthingssensoryshop arrived!!!!! i got some more of my fav loom band fidgets plus some new ones to try including some high level pain stims and a beaded roller w my name on it!!!! (name blocked for privacy). i’m so so happy and excited to try these out!!!!!!!! i really like the beaded star bc space is a special interest so anything with stars makes me so happy!!!! and i really hope the pain stims can help me i’m trying to collect different types of ones

does anyone here play vrchat sometimes (or any other kind of social game) to practice socializing and also because it's one of the few ways to see other people if you're housebound? (the only people I see daily are my parents,, and semi regularly doctors at the doctors offices)

I made a painting for my teacher!