Tag: weekly

• Snakes in the Garden

  

  Take that for resilience. I don’t have “real food,” but I did get creative with the electricity. living 75% of life on 50% electricity.

  C. F.

  May 24, 2026

  life

  autistic burnout, books, creative, electricity, fake resilience, keyboard, quote, refrigerator, resilient, weekly

• CBT this

  

  The real CBT issue

  C. F.

  May 18, 2026

  life

  autistic adults, cbt., doctors, gaslighting, medical gaslighting, medical trauma, quote, therapy, weekly

• letting it sink in

  

  My life has always been reactive. But it is now more than ever. Suggest a plan and I laugh. Ha! But I have to react to the environment. I use all my energy for that. How dare they suggest I do something else?

  C. F.

  May 10, 2026

  life

  autistic life, books, burnout, quote, stress, weekly

• Can’t Have Fun

  

  lol. I can’t swallow pills, and the pharmacy gave me extended-release meds. This will be a bumpy ride. Will I survive? Doubt I thrive. Welcome to May. My birthday month. I was trying hard not to make this month hell, but people are determined to ruin everything. Mess with my health, and what can I…

  C. F.

  May 2, 2026

  life

  bad doctors, books, doctors, health, May, medicine, pharmacy, weekly

• Defining “The Least”

  

  Beginning to realize that underthinking is a much bigger problem than overthinking, but that’s just my opinion. So, it means nothing.

  C. F.

  April 26, 2026

  books, life, poem

  health, heart problems, heart rate, poem, quote, reframe, the least, underthinking, weekly

• Pounce

  

  I woke up with the poem below on my mind. But now I wish I’d written about how they wait for you to make a mistake so they can pounce. It happens when they “other” you (aka dehumanize) and need a reason. A good enough reason. A person just being odd is really NOT a…

  C. F.

  April 12, 2026

  life

  groups, life, neighbors, people suck, poem, weekly