At least, in part, a desire to punish Eby for his stupidity in calling this election without any real plan or purpose.

I think the human desire to punish others is a wierd emotion that we are not taught how to properly handle and that allows stupidity to be rewarded with even greater stupidity.

A Conservative win fucks me over pretty badly.. that said, Eby doesn't deserve to be Premier any more, either.

Whether or not autism plays any role here, this sounds like depression-related behaviour.

YouTube videos all day will keep your dopamine reserves low. Best tip I can offer is to let yourself become bored instead and then use that feeling to propel you to do things away from your screens.

So when I, a disabled person, am discriminated against at work for my disability, then I will have pretty much no recourse.

It’s in my interest to have the NDP win.

I’m torn between voting NDP and Green, because my values are for Green and I think Eby does not deserve to be premier if he has no real plan to reveal to deal with the issues facing British Columbians.

Doerksen and his lunatics got nothing either. Agree they will make things worse for most of us.

Do not understand what opportunities Eby saw in this snap election, other than an opportunity for the leopards to eat his face.

Yes! Thanks for mentioning this. It gives you so much back :)

I will say this falls under the specific autistic needs for me that I've learned and so I invest energy into my hobbies quite a bit more intentionally now instead of worrying and ruminating over social interactions.

I'm gonna go work on my self-hosting setup for a bit, now. Thanks again for the thought!

Yes, I agree with this too and it is also my way. Expecting and accepting the social consequences of making people unconfortable is a very important skill to carry folks like us though. I think it's possible to balance indifference with the understanding that you walk a challenging and underappreciated path through life and forgiveness is a powerful tool to wield in letting go.

Finding a way to be on board with all of that is freedom.

Yeah, and I expect some responses like this. I'm sorry you're having a tough time, financially. I expect to be out of work very soon due to circumstances beyond my control and to be similarly finding myself threatened with the difficulties that go with that (once again, unfortunately).

None of what I'm suggesting requires money and can lighten your overall load in life as an autistic person.

I wish you good health and luck to make it all work. It is hard; please look after yourself as well.

Yes to all of this. Thanks for sharing.

Agree. Voting with my values sounds right. Tax the ultra-wealthy? Say no more. Green.

Thanks for your comment. It sounds like we are on a similar path. I also feel the same about my relationships, its sad to see them almost completely disappear with everyone and finding new people that actually fit my life properly may not be something I can expect to happen quickly even if I put a lot of energy into it.

Finding a toothpaste can be a process. I like Sensodyne, not because I have particularly sensitive teeth but because it just feels the nicest to use.

Dip your toothbrush head in hydrogen peroxide every so often.. whatever you feel like manages the cleanliness. There is some stuff that does build up on there and this easily deals with it.

Well put. Yeah, it's really full of holes, wrong-turns and dead-ends.

There was a carosel of other meds involved, especially after lithium. I had to self-drive my way off that ride, supported by my pdoc once he accepted the results of my ASD assesment and diagnosis.

Once I learned to operate well enough as autistic, I stopped needing treatment for the underlying issues that suggested they were appropriate meds.

I was on lithum for 10 years before it started harming my kidneys to the point where I needed to come off it. I think that it did have some benefits when I was otherwise in an extreme bad mental health, but only in the sense that it muted the extreme emotions I might feel.

I originally went seeking help in my early twenties for what I now understand to be autistic meltdowns. When I would lose it, the consequences were devastating and I could not seem to figure out how to protect myself from them happening or from the blowback.

Psychiatry started by validating the suspected BPD as not exactly fitting type 1 or 2.. "Not-otherwise Specified" was the category I was given. When my pdoc left, the new one disqualified BPD and suggested "Generalized Anxiety with episodes of Acute Extreme Anxiety", I stuck with him until he retired. He eventually accepted my independently-sought assessment to ASD, as it was a much better fit for my life circumstances and also accounted for the challenges that I was seeing him for. He admitted he lacked the knowledge or background to qualify that himself or suggest it.

The medical system did not lead me where I needed to go, so I am glad that I did more on my own to get to where I am. Sorry to hear that your psychiatrist sucks.

Thanks for adding your thoughts,

Yeah, agree more people is nice. For me (not everyone) that's a want, and the actual need is just one. I know what its like to have none.

Sort of agree with bullet two.. but I'd say it can benefit me when I stand to be a little uncomfortable. To some degree, how much others make me unhappy is my own world to control and properly practicing that can make me less bothered in the long run.

And for three.. yes, when I have a receptive audience for that, which has not been often. It's also a skill that I'm working on too, where I've found my clarifying context can do more damage than realizing and apologizing for how I come off. I think I'm geting a little better at finding a blanace here, but still working on it.

Sounds about right!

Yeah. Totally get it. I'm tring to work out how to self-actualize income to get out of this cycle of temporary tolerance I recieve in the work place(s).. and I'm feeling really overwhelmed by all that. On the other hand, I feel like the minimizing expenses is going pretty good so that will help a tiny bit.

I came to autism by way of misdiagnosed bipolar as well; it is a very common and well-documented pipeline from what I've learned (Tony Atwood, The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome). Feels good to cast off that improrper label and the awful medication that goes with it. Figuring out how to be an autistic person let me get away from all that.

Yes, the be yourself advice is very impoartant to follow through with. It is a bigger challenge for those of us who live in a seemingly universal disapproval of others; even so, it becomes even more important to live according to your own way.

Thanks, I understand a lot of this. Is this really a past-tense situation for you, or do you now have any handle on these things for yourself? I realize the wealth-dependent aspects are probably a no.

Clueless or malicious legislation.

Or both, it can be both.