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Had a very hard time with energy levels today. Couldn’t get up out of bed. I couldn’t deal with the day. I know there’s the idea of counting 1-5 and getting out of bed. Just things couldn’t work. Only thing to get me out of bed was to get to the webinar on ASD.

Cleaned a bit in the apartment and grabbed a coffee.

I wanted to take in the webinar but my executive function wasn’t fully there. Did get some interesting facts out of it that 98% of clinicians don’t know how to assess Autism. That’s a profound number. It was interesting to hear the perspective from people from the UK, US and Canada. But also recognizing that assessments are very colonialist based.

Recognition to include autistic people in the process of creating these assessments is very important too. How do we know that DSM-6 will even include the autistic perspective on how to assess Autistics?

I agree that the yes/no questions are very tricky to answer and are frustrating. There’s a lot of variations.

Autistics will also be oftenly misdiagnosed with anxiety, depression, BPD, narcissistic behaviour. Majority of Autistics will never be anxiety free.

Trying to have a convo with my mom about this was problematic. She’s got the mindset that I’m just trying to force a diagnosis on myself. I’m not, but I know my mind is set up differently. Things get hard. I burnout. I want to better understand myself but also see how we can make this world more easier for everyone. Have us better understood.

When 80% of Autistics are unemployed – how do we truly get us back into the workforce? We have many great qualities that can make work more efficient. We have interesting perspectives. We can recognize issues from afar based on our data point gathering.

Being at the gym was frustrating. I just want a good work out done. Seeing people hog machines was frustrating. Not really putting in the workout and then going in for a massage… as if they deserve that massage after scrolling their phone at the gym weight machines and not working out. What’s the point of going to the gym if you’re just going to sit there on a weight machine not using it? But hey, who am I to make rules? I’m just someone who cares about the efficiency of my workout and getting results for what I paid for.