This entry contains spoilers for Disney's TangledSo what happens to Rapunzel after she gets her happy ending? She's out of the tower where she's spent her whole life. Mother Gothel is long-overdue dead and dusted. She finally gets to meet people. She gets to have her birth family. She finds out she's royalty. The guy she loves just proved how much ( Read more... )

I posted this on Wrong Planet, in response to a member who was having trouble starting conversations with strangers and wondered whether other Aspies had the same problem.

( How to break the ice )

Many of us have this problem of cyclic burnout--we gather our energy, work hard and surge ahead, become more independent, even do amazing things. But we run out of energy. We can't sustain it forever. And things start to fall in on themselves... we're just plain tired, and we can't keep going at the same speed ( Read more... )

One of my cats, Christy, is a little calico I'm fostering because she was so stressed at the shelter that her health started to suffer. She's always been nervous. Other cats make her nervous. Changes in schedule make her nervous. Sounds make her nervous. She doesn't relax anywhere ( Read more... )

"Overcome" is the worst possible advice you could ever give to someone with autism, Asperger's or otherwise. An autistic person who comes to believe this will begin to hate himself for being too lazy, too immature, too stupid ( Read more... )

Stress-based "regression" isn't true regression; you don't quite lose skills--it's just that the stress is causing problems and you can no longer use them.

To do the things NTs do in the course of a typical day, we use more emotional and mental resources than NTs do. That means that we have less left over at the end of the day. When something else ( Read more... )

Like many girls, I hate my hair. Unlike most girls, I hate it because it gets in the way, not because it doesn't cooperate with styling efforts ( Read more... )

POP Report
Dec. 16, 2006
Started the day off wrong with oversleeping. It's 4:15 a.m. now and I'm still not tired--I've taken a sleeping pill and hope to be alseep soon, though.

I'm going to need to readjust my sleep cycle towards normal; I'm dog-sitting for my housemate's dog Mercy, and you can only walk a dog when it's light.

Didn't use my day planner ( Read more... )

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Personal Organization Progress Report 3

Setbacks today. Last night I was unable to sleep until 6 a.m.--the reason seems to be a combination of muscle tension, interesting things to think about, and anxiety about a dentist's appointment. I should've taken a sleeping pill, but I was deceived by superficial tiredness into thinking I wouldn't have ( Read more... )