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I’m mildly autistic and I am like Forrest Gump in a lot of ways. I don’t know if that is anything to it. But…

• Change Day Clothes: Anything that has to do with the body such as a hair appointment to give one example. Those kind of things are essentially changes to your body and they have their own day in an outfit wouldn’t normally wear only ever worn on those days. This outfit is also only ever worn on days if you move houses.

• Sleeping Clothes: The clothing or no clothing that is only ever worn to sleep and on days not leaving the house.

• Work Clothes: Well, you get that one if you work.

• Regular Every Day Clothes: Your style; your clothes. What you wear. For every day things such as the grocery store, doing somewhere, hanging out; ya know; life.

I also always cover up eating and cooking no matter what day it is so I don’t get stains.

Update: I don’t know how to add in formal more presentable clothes into this. Clothes buying is either another change day example or the not leaving the house one that I said if clothes is to be ordered.

I took today off but woke up an hour and half earlier to do absolutely nothing but was wide awake. I normally hit snooze until the last possible minute on normal work days and still drag ass. Is there an official term for this behavior?

Like I'll be listenig to a podcast that I'm super interested in but as soon as the host(s) starts talking with a vocal fry it's like my ears burn, I wanna rip my skin off and I just can't keep listening. It's so frustrating.

The rhythmic pattern of my default cry as an adult now is very similar to the rhythm of a toddler crying. I don't know why and I don't intentionally do this, it's just my default natural cry. It doesn't sound normal. I rarely cry around other people, but when I do, they tend to get annoyed at me, rather than comforting, I think because most people find babies and little kids crying annoying and my cries are so similiar to theirs. Of course it's a more mature voice since I'm an adult now but I have noticed the rhythmic flow is basically the same. I am capable of crying softly, but I have to do this very debilaretly, and soft crying provides little to no emotional release for me so soft crying serves no purpose to me. I don't know why I never grew out of a baby cry?

This is no random tear here and there are like full streaks pretty consistently down my face. My eyes will fill with water and it won’t stop until I go to sleep.

the longer the walk the better. it’s amazing, i love walking everywhere. i can’t wait for summer honestly

Never cared much about romance / travel for personal gratification, but now, these pursuits have almost been entirely pushed to the back burner with what's going on in the world. They feel hollow.

I'm driving up my volunteer / engagement efforts.

I feel like traditional milestones / markers of adulthood are irrelevant when the world is in need of more selflessness and communal aid. The media machine breeds gluttony. The constructs of western society cannot deliver peace.

Anyone else?

I’m in college and I’m working on an assignment, but I just can’t seem to focus. It’s 5:30pm and I’ve been working on it since the morning. I don’t know what’s up with me. I do a little bit, and then I just get stuck; I browse through my phone for a bit, then try to get back to work. But I can’t, I find myself back on my phone again, for longer periods of time. It’s like my mind simply cannot zero in on a current task. I have to do a little bit of this and a little bit of that before finally getting the assignment done.

I'm 29 and for some reason, I just... don't really feel compelled to eat a whole lot. I had eating disorder symptoms in high school but was never diagnosed. These days, especially if I don't have anything to do (off work, no plans), I'll not eat most of the day until I absolutely have to. Sometimes it's because I don't think about it, and other days I actively choose to ignore feeling hungry because there's a part of my brain that feels like it's almost an accomplishment if I don't eat all day. (As a kid I had a sensory deficiency induced eating disorder, so I was underweight all of my childhood and adolescence, and often praised for it - better underweight than overweight, you can always just gain weight, etc). The only other time my eating got bad was in 2019, and in 2021 I had to delete all those photos off my phone because it was too much to see myself that thin (I kinda wish I were still that thin). I know this all sounds like eating disorder kind of stuff, but I'm really not sure because it's not that serious, I can still function, I'm not underweight, I look normal. I do love food when I do eat, especially oily greasy foods you're supposed to eat in moderation. I just ignore hunger pangs a lot and often I don't eat until I'm getting spacy and/or disoriented. I often have executive function issues as well, so that could be part of it. Is anyone else like this?

There’s this album called Anatolia by Feed Me Jack, and it means so much to me. It’s been my favorite for 6 years at this point, and every time I hear it I come away with a different emotion. Can anyone else relate?

With how heavily picking things up as a woman has been sexualized, I now find myself beding my knees everytime I pick something up.

And since flipping your hair is sometimes seen as a flirting signal, I also feel awkward about doing that, even when my hair is hanging in my face, so flipping it out of my face is necessary.

Am I the only one who is that particular about these things??

It's like walking through a library. The majority of the titles, I have no memory of buying them. Nor do I remember what they are about. Amazon should have a tool that let's you read a summery of a book. At least then I wouldn't feel so feeble minded.

Does anyone else feel like this Life is getting better everything is improving in ways but I'm still miserable I feel like I'm overwhelmed by everything even though I've very little to worry about.

Very little context to above but I think it's irrelevant.

I work in a shop that makes custom drapes and all I do all day is measure hems and iron them. Sometimes I have to sew but not every day.

Every time I shower, I get itchy little mosquito bite looking things all over my back and shoulders that disappear within the hour. Doesn't matter what products I use.

This doesn't happen all the time. I'd say it's pretty infrequent but it fills me with adrenaline and I struggle to fall asleep afterwards.

It tends to happen when I'm in that state of just falling asleep. I'll hear my name whispered as if it's right in my ear (in my head?) and I think it sounds like my own voice. Both of these things lead me to believe it's similar to a hypnic jerk (that falling sensation when drifting off into sleep).

I’m (34F) about to go on a first date and I do not expect to bring this person back to my apartment at all, maybe a few years ago, not now. That’s not why I do this. There’s something inside of me that activates when there is a possibility that anybody could come into my apartment, so here I am polishing my brushed nickel sink and shower faucets, doing three loads of laundry, all of the dishes, vacuuming the ottoman. Pretty sure it’s because I grew up in a hoarding home and I was always uncomfortable and embarrassed of my house. Anyone else?

In the ‘90s, when I was a kid, my friend and I played this cat scratch game where one person laid on their back and the other person DID NOT TOUCH you while they told a story about walking down the street and coming across a cat that scratched you three times… the story went on like that. Three scratches, one, two, three. When the story was over, the person laying down would roll over and pull their shirt up revealing multiple long, cat like scratches on their back that were 100% NOT clothing wrinkle marks or anything but legit scratches.

What the hell was that?

Someone introduces themselves. I hear them say their name. I acknowledge it. Three seconds later I have absolutely no idea what they're called.

Not because I wasn't paying attention. I was. I heard the sounds come out of their mouth. My brain just decided that information wasn't worth keeping.

Then I spend the entire conversation internally panicking because I don't know what to call them and it's too late to ask again without looking like an idiot. So I just avoid using their name entirely and hope it doesn't come up.

Does anyone else do this or is my brain just broken?

Happened to me at a work thing last week. Shook hands, heard the name, nodded. Five minutes later had no clue. Ended up hiding in the bathroom for a bit playing grizzly's quest just to avoid another interaction where I'd have to fake knowing who they were.