Diary of an ASD Squirrel. Day 232 , Sunday 16/06/2024
Woke to a gloriously sunny Sunday morning, with clouds lurking around the edges ready to pounce later in the day.
Got my act into gear around 8am & tumbled out of bed, made breakfast & then relaxed over my coffee until it was time to get showered & changed to cross the hills to Liverpool & visit my brother to celebrate his birthday.
The trip across was thru torrential rain that did not really ease up until we approached the NW coast. The the clouds broke & the sun came out.
We had a great day, I enjoyed it more than I expected to.
My sister was the only fly in the ointment, she is mother to my 2 autistic nephews, she herself is NT , however she started lecturing me on what I was & wasn’t capable of, saying how much more she understood about being autistic than I did …. I was good & kept my peace.
There was lots off lovely food, my Bro is a bit of a BBQ fanatic, not as enthusiastic as @kaybee335 (who is a BBQing god IMHO) but does throw together a mean spread!
I was fairly good, Geoff behaved himself most of the day & I didn’t want to aggravate him too much so just had a little bit of everything & didn’t go mad.
Had the first piece of cake since Easter! It was heaven!
Herself decided that 6:30pm was late enough & that we should go home, to be fair we did have a 2 hour drive home & tomorrow is a work day!
The drive home was ,in stark contrast to this morning’ a lovely drive, fine weather & only got stuck in traffic once. Some nutter in a white transit gave us a scare by overtaking us (me doing the speed limit was just too slow for him! ) in an extremely dubious location & nearly ploughed into the bonnet of the oncoming car for his trouble. I am not too proud to say that I was thinking my time was done for a few seconds there because we would have been intimately involved. His reward, because it was only a 2 lane highway with very few passing places , was that he stayed in the same place in front of us for the next 5 miles until our paths parted ways.
Got home & texted my Bro we had got home safe, he was a little upset to learn that we had had sunny weather all the way home & that we are enjoying a sunny evening as I write. Apparently it started raining ½ an hour after we left. 😆
Final Thoughts.
I enjoyed today a lot more than I thought I would, it does the soul good to have a laugh & joke in the company of those we love.
Why do some NT folk think that they can know more about ND folk than ND folk themselves ???
I am blessed that pretty much all the NT folk I know in the Fediverse do not do this, realising perhaps that while some experiences are very much shared , some really aren’t!
Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖
@Tim_McTuffty@kaybee335@actuallyautistic
Morning lovely 🐿️🐿️
Sounds like yesterday was a good day on balance ⚖️
We do a similar journey in reverse to Sheffield to see Ms DT, Snake Pass and Woodhead can be scary with someone sniffing at your exhaust!!
Hope today goes well for you 🥰🥰
Know both those roads well. Yes they can !
Once nearly got killed because an oncoming car overtook, I caused a decent pile up (nobody hurt but 5 or 6 cars behind me all shunted) because I had to slam on the brakes to avoid being a bonnet ornament!
@Tim_McTuffty@kaybee335@actuallyautistic
It's so nice you had a good time with your family. Good job dealing with "that one family member." Every family has one (or more).
Yay, for a sunny, enjoyable end to your day!
Rest well 💜 🐿
@Tim_McTuffty
Sounds like it wasn't a too bad day for you dear. I hope Geoff behaved himself... 😊
Sorry about the NT knowing about ND more... It's a struggle for sure. And you'll probably run into that from time to time... 😔 But yay for not biting and getting into that! Well done. Let her think that while you know that you know better 🤗.
Sorry also about the stupid driver being such a fool... I've recently watched some dashcam vids and some people are just nuts! Eeeeek 😳!
Have a good night!!!
😴 Sweet dreams MLS 🫶🏻