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Sharing the passion
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Sharing the passionOK, so when I was trying to find a photo for this post, the choices were passionfruit or passion in the bedroom… so I went for a passionfruit flower! One thing I’ve noticed lately is that I have a passion. I want to inspire people to fall in love with stories, whether writing or reading…
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Sometimes, I’m Jealous…
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Sometimes, I’m Jealous…Sometimes, I’m jealous of my 20yo kid. We are both diagnosed AuDHD, however he’s able to do things I was never able to do… I offer him jobs that could earn him money, some of the work some of my clients pay me for. These are skills he could learn, and he says no because…
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I am stories!
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: I am stories!I am a chameleon. I don’t know who I am. When people say ‘be authentic’, this makes no sense to me. My whole life, I have been told how to act, how to be. And if I don’t fit, I was teased or chastised, so I changed. I changed to fit the person or the…
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Forgetting my Successes…
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Forgetting my Successes…In my life, I have done some of the following: This is only scratching the surface. Yet, I don’t feel like I’ve accomplished anything. Because I keep forgetting! This image has been going around lately: It says ‘People with ADHD often have success amnesia. We actually do a lot of awesome things well, but we…
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Selective Mutism
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Selective MutismToday I am looking at some of my own autistic traits. The other day, I listened to a video by Orion Kelly about Autistic Shutdown. So much of this video resonated with me as I don’t tend to have meltdowns, I shutdown and withdraw. More on that in future posts. One thing he mentions is…
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Number of hours every day
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Number of hours every dayI am sick of being told ‘we all have the same 24 hours’. There may be 24 hours on the clock, but they are not the same. There’s a post I see going around social media that talks about useable hours in the day, and this really hit home. The number of useable hours I…
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Reward & Punishment
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Reward & PunishmentWhen I set this 100 day challenge as part of the program on the weekend, we were told to set a reward & punishment. A reward for achieving the challenge and a punishment if we don’t. I set the challenge, but I haven’t set a reward or punishment. Why? Because a reward and punishment doesn’t…
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The Frog Can Wait
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: The Frog Can WaitYesterday, I mentioned I’d been in a program with Brian Tracy, the guy who wrote Eat This Frog, and how that book had added to the feelings I had of being broken and a loser. One reason is that doing the hard thing first doesn’t help me get things done. If I push through to…
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100 Days of Blogging
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: 100 Days of BloggingI attended a training yesterday with Brian Tracy, the guy who wrote Eat this Frog. This was a book that I read many years ago, tried its advice, and it left me feeling broken because it didn’t work for me. I now know that I am neurodivergent, but I didn’t know that then. This session…
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Making chocolate cake
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Making chocolate cakeWhen I was about 7, I made a chocolate cake by myself for the first time. We were in Nepal and it was baked in the electric frying pan. I followed the recipe. I thought I had followed every step perfectly… but when we tried it, it was awful! It turned out that I had…