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Bethany Black
@BethanyBlack@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06‘Comedian’ managed by United Agents. #ActuallyAutistic
I block people for unsolicited advice, being argumentative etc, I don’t engage with them. This is a really simple boundary and whether you respect it tells me what I need to know.
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Asking the staff at the hardware store if I’ll understand WD-40 if I’ve not used the other 39
Right you cunts, I need to switch up my mastodon instance as the one I’m on is full of scammers and spammers, and keeps getting blocked by friends, so who do you recommend, if you’re following me you know who I am and what I post, and if you don’t, this is quiet time for you whilst the grown ups talk.
By way of thanks here’s one of the pictures I send my wife of me doing a bad impression of Sawyer from Lost
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Didn’t tell her the reason for the cPTSD or that her chain smoking in the car when I was a kid and not letting me wind the windows down was the main cause. But I didn’t end up with her saying deliberately hurtful stuff and slamming the phone down either, so it feels like a win on points.
Phone call from the letting agent, we were supposed to get the keys Tuesday so we could decorate Tuesday and Wednesday before the new carpets are fitted on Thursday, but the cleaners have arrived 3 days early and he’s now away this week so we get the keys tonight!
Whenever I see someone who’s just mad about everything, and consequently completely negative about everything, I just think “must be so miserable being you my good dude” and then take myself out of their presence.
Feels so much healthier than gravitating towards them like I used to.
I wish there was a little more time between “I should cut my toe nails tomorrow” and “Quick! Someone call The Guinnes Book Of Records!”
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It’s beautiful, the horrible, selfish thoughts about things like whether he can have free stuff from the shop where she dies, and how he can do the things she’d get annoyed at. All intermingled with the grief and sadness over the tragedy. It’s so wonderfully realised and truthful. I love it.
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Also, I’ve taken on about 3 times more work than I’d usually be able to do over this month which means we can move without it being financially unmanageable.
The shifting moving date also means we’ve most of the house already packed with 2 weeks and 2 days to go.
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Me replying to someone telling me they’d used the same argument that day “I swear we’re all living the same life!”
Them “We are absolutely not living the same life we all have things that happen to us at different points and different locations and we all learn in different ways. We are not sheep!”
Wow, okay.
@PetraPhoenix@mendeddrum.org i’m so glad the work I’m doing with my therapist has let me accept that I can’t change her and just need to create distance. That’s made these interactions a lot less frequent
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@skylar@mastodon.social it’s been horrible, for about 6 months every new thing seemed to pile on worry, but finally it’s starting to work out
@PetraPhoenix@mendeddrum.org It’s been transformative for me, I’m in the middle of my second 26 week set of EMDR sessions and it’s helping me wirh everything so much
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@merialc@mstdn.social it is, it’s feeling good right now because we have everything organised and have enough money to pay for everything.
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@alistaircoleman@mastodon.social fake news! He won a ticket to meet Putin in a restaurant at the top of the tallest building in Moscow, window seat.