Christmas

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Thank you, you too.

I'm just thinking how glad I am to have a neurodiverse family which believes in neurodiversity. I'm just telling my dad what the main character of my paracosm bought her dad for Christmas and instead of saying 'you're nuts' or 'grow up' he's actually acting interested and excited.
(Paracosms are common with autistic women and some autistic men have them btw. I think it helps that I'm a writer/artist so he knows I'm imaginative)
Even my NT relatives are pulling out all the stocks to make it aspie friendly, no lights on trees, a place for peace/quiet/routine etc. The one person who's annoying me is my probably aspie stepdad who's trying to pick fault with everything, I think Christmas might overwhelm him in a social expectations way?
Merry Christmas everyone, and I mean everyone as well, to those of you who have paracosms.

Paracosms--TUF, what an interesting idea! I looked it up. Do you know that they have it on Amazon and Ebay?

I sort of have one. Sometimes I envision myself as the ruler of a very small kingdom. My house is my castle. If I get lazy I may tell myself that I have a kingdom to administer. My servants do most of the food preparation; I pick it up at the store. They made the dishwasher, and clothes washing and drying machines, the vacuum cleaner... This is all very close to the truth.

Not exactly the same thing you were talking about, and not about Christmas, so I'll stop writing. Sorry, Original Poster.

TUF, I'm going to look around for more about those paracosms. On here, not Amazon.

I really want to like Christmas like I did when I was a kid, but adulthood has kind of ruined it for me. All the excitement has been replaced with anxiety and stress. I never know what to get people, or which people to buy gifts for. The carols drive me crazy, and I’m an atheist so all the talk of Jesus all over the place annoys me. I wish I could get back what I had when I was young.

I will admit that the holiday season is what I look forward too all year, it is a bonus that my birthday occurs this month, as well.

Happy birthday, auntblabby.

StarTrekker, Christmas was still fun for me when I had small children (young enough tobe thrilled with whatever they were given). After that, my experience was exactly what you describe.

This year, alone, early on a cold morning, I sat on my sofa in a sunbeam and enjoyed the silence. Yay for adaptibility! I wish it for everyone who's not where they want to be. It is a human ability but may take a while to get going.

Yeah. It was a much talked about thing inspiring outrage when it came out in the early Seventies. Maury Povich had a little local news talk daytime TV show here in DC, and he (like most viewers of the movie)described it "the filthiest thing he had ever seen" while he interviewed the director John Waters (also a local from nearby Baltimore). John Waters replied "well..its a weird movie for weird people...." .Grandma was visiting and she was baffled because she had it confused with some other then current movie with "pink" in the title that she had actually seen, and didn't "think it was so bad". We all chimed in to explain to her that it wasn't the same movies.

But oddly I never saw it when it was first run (I think I was just under 18 and wouldn't have been allowed).

My sister gave me the video along with some other campy movies for Xmas ten plus years later in the Eighties.

John Waters kinda toned down his films after he made that.

It's getting even better neuro diversity wise.
Mostly because my cousin and mum who have the same personality but I think are NT have decided that dyslexic is a personality.
I don't know the science behind this. I do know that they're very similar.
So anyway they're talking about how good it is to have people who are different.

My head aches for some unexplainable reason but this is the first Christmas in about 18 years that I haven't had a meltdown.

I think I offended my uncle though, who's being over PC. I didn't say anything offensive to Germans. I said Eastern Europe was quite a bit different to Western Europe and I said Brendan Rodgers was a good manager with Celtic but crap with Liverpool.

"female trouble" certainly gave pink flamingos a run for its money.