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A blog about all sorts of things!
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Melissa Gijsbers
I love books, stories, chai tea, and more
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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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Mother’s Day thoughts
Categories: ParentingContinue Reading: Mother’s Day thoughtsToday is Mother’s Day here in Australia. It’s a day I’ve never really enjoyed. Growing up, my mum would spend ages making things for the Mother’s Day stall, and she was one of the volunteers too! We had to be careful not to buy something she had made and try to hide our purchases from…
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Needing Rest
Categories: LifestyleContinue Reading: Needing RestAs I write this, I am completely exhausted. This is due to a number of factors including recovering from a boot camp last weekend (I am writing this on Wednesday). I need rest. This is a non negotiable. I can’t ‘just push through’ otherwise I end up sick. I have to put myself first, both…
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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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Review: Growing In To Autism
Categories: Book ReviewContinue Reading: Review: Growing In To AutismAuthor: Sandra Thom-Jones Category: Memoir Publisher: Melbourne University Press Publication date: 30 August 2022 Blurb: What’s it like to realise you’re autistic? And how do you start to ask the world around you to accept that? From the outside looking in, Sandra Thom-Jones was living a successful life: she had a great career, a beautiful home, a caring husband,…
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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…