Social distancing

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Them: It's unhealthy for someone of your age to be so socially isolated!

Me: Okay *works really hard to get out more, make friends, get into a routine with it all and enjoy it*

Them: You need to stop all forms of unnecessary socialization and keep 2 metres away from everyone.

Me:

Being serious though, I hope the social distancing measures help.

Good to see you, Troglodyte.

If I didn't already live in the woods, I'd certainly be out camping. I'm sorry you have noisy kids around.

Actually, we are going out canoeing this weekend. The trip was planned before the c-v hit. I'll probably see more people on the river than I ever do at home. I haven't seen anyone but my husband in weeks, except for an early morning trip to the grocery store and only saw about a dozen people briefly there, all careful keeping social distance.

The term is a good example of the challenges (is that a politically correct term?) NTs face, specifically the challenge they show in their use of language, in particular a lack of precision and awareness that words have meanings and need to mean what they say or write.

What they appear to mean is physical distance - a six feet / 2 metre separation at which risk of airborn person to person transmission is very significantly reduced and social concentration - persons per room or persons per unit area.

They forget that Social is not restricted to in person contact and can be facilitated at often much deeper and more significant levels in writing, with technologies from letter and post up to the very latest electronic means.

It is tragic we have yet to develop a form of ABA for people with NT conditions, tailored to the challenges NT people face to help them fit into our world successfully

It feels horrible. Five years of hard work to become more independent down the drain. I don't know how much, if anything, I'll get back. Fortunately, I have friends calling me to ask how I'm doing and to provide updates on activities. That feels good.

I'm actually enjoying having a lot of me-time, and I'm getting a lot of projects/schoolwork done. I do like people, but I need a lot of my me-time or I go crazy. Granted, the circumstances aren't so great, and I hope the bad can improve, and the virus dies down.

Some plans get canceled, but I'm a generally flexible person.

Choose one of the following:

a) "Remember back in the spring of 2020 when we all thought the government was over-reacting to CoViD-19?"

Or

b) "That's it. He's gone. Time is 17:37. Date is April 7, 2020. I'll go talk to the family..."

I have a fever, and am officially in mandatory home quarantine until my test results come back
I suspect it's just a sinus infection. But in either case, good thing I like pasta and rice.

I don't feel great right now. I think it's anxiety.

Even by the very nature of AS/HFA (where social distancing is natural), I sometimes find that I'm making adjustments like everybody else!

Honestly I don't mind. Women nowadays simply ignore me anyway and other men end up rejecting me and bully me. Forced Social distancing actually makes me feel better about the fact that I never have friends or a romantic partner.

I may be the odd one out here, but I really can't wait for mandated social distancing to be over. While I very much do value having me-time, if I don't get at least some in-person social interaction with people I don't live with, I start getting depressed from the loneliness, which is slowly happening as we post. I really hope we get a reprieve from this in the summer, even if it starts back up again in autumn.

Social distancing for me has meant the opposite of something appealing to my tendencies. Instead of being able to hide in my space at work all by myself for most of the day and control, for the most part, when I see other people, now I am basically locked in a house with other people and not a lot of room to get away from each other. I've been trying to get out to walk around the yard by myself as much as possible. I enjoy the occasional interaction with others. But this 24/7 stuff is tough, even if I really like the people in my house.

I have recently made a video about "Social Distancing", since I am from Australia, in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic I do indeed support social distancing.

On one hand I absolutely LOVE this social distancing stuff. I don't have to deal with family members just showing up, I don't look like a weirdo when I give people wide berths, and my husband has been at home for over a month now because he gets paid whether he's physically at his job or not right now soooo my usual household chores have been cut in half. Good stuff.

On the other hand, it's super distressing hearing everyone talk about how horrible living life like this is. They're all talking about increases in depression and anti-depressant meds, increases in drinking, etc... all these guides and self-help apps and stuff to help people "cope with social isolation"... and I'm just here like "Wow, is it really that terrible being me?"

Being introverted, I get a lot of "If you just got out more you'd start to like it!" Now the tables are turned.