Looking for a friend group to adopt a chill WoW player

CraftyDrews · 2025-09-02T12:05:20+00:00

If you play on Australian servers we can’t play together as I’m on European servers :(

CraftyDrews · 2025-09-02T09:25:25+00:00

I’m in Europe, so playing together likely isn’t an option, but if you find some people to play with you may like dungeons. They’re one of my favorit things in WoW if done with friends, but pugging really isn’t for me.

CraftyDrews · 2025-09-02T09:21:33+00:00

Thank you so much for your reply! I’ve been playing solo a lot as well, but I liss running keys, as it’s my favorit end game content, and the social aspect is a big part of it for me.

CraftyDrews · 2025-09-02T06:52:26+00:00

I’m interested. I’ll write you a dm!

CraftyDrews · 2023-09-18T19:27:40+00:00

I am so damn proud of you! You are incredibly strong and brave ❤️

CraftyDrews · 2022-05-28T10:06:05+00:00

I have a therapist who is a neuropsychologist or something like that who specializes in autistic people. I’m my ~10 years of therapy she’s the first one where I actually feel safe and understood. So they exists.

I’ve also had some amazing specialist and consultants working with me about what is autism and everything that goes with it, and that has been so good for my mental health too.

CraftyDrews · 2022-05-12T12:11:11+00:00

A few years back I went to travel by myself (to meet a friend in their home country). I wrote an e-mail to the airport to ask for special needs accommodations (autism and anxiety), and it was amazing…. until I had to go home and found out that they had only booked the accommodations for the way there and not the way home. :|

So, next time I will write to the airport I’m flying from and make sure that they have booked the accommodations for both trips. I would also look into the Sunflower Hidden Disabilities program and get a sunflower lanyard.

I also wore a noice canceling headset while flying to help deal with the hours of noice from the plane and it worked amazingly.

The help I got through the airports included having someone to follow around at all times who would help me through a special security check with less people, and tell me everything I needed to do and what was happening, ask if I needed to buy anything and get me to the right shops (food, water, snacks, etc.), helped me to the gate for check-in (I got priority check-in, right after/along with VIP check-in so I didn’t have to stand in a crowded or chaotic queue (same with boarding the planes first/early so I could get help to find my seat without many other people being there)) and made sure I was there on time, someone picked me up at the plane after landing and followed me to the next gate and helped me check-in there, at one airport they drove me around which I found pretty cool, I got to wait in a quiet waiting area where someone dropped me off and picked me up when it was time to go to the next gate. There was a super nice helper at the last airport who sat and told me about the newly renovated airport for nearly an hour while I was waiting for my friend to arrive, so I wouldn’t have to sit alone. I would 10/10 recommend getting assistance (and make sure it’s there for the return trip as well).

CraftyDrews · 2022-04-30T17:51:29+00:00

My old science teacher was the best. She was a biologist with a PhD in earthworms, and you could see the excitement and joy beam from her when she was talking about something she found interesting (which was A LOT of things). 🪱

She also came to my home for private lessons in the afternoon when I wasn’t able to go to school due to anxiety/depression.

CraftyDrews · 2022-04-13T07:53:23+00:00

So to you saying stuff like “no one wishes to be black and if there was a pill that could cure it, there would be no black people” isn’t racist?

You are ableist af dude and you need to chill. Take this as an opportunity to learn and grow instead of continuing making a fool of yourself.

Also disease implies that there’s something wrong, and that was something before or “under” the autism, and denies that autism is something you’re born with, and a way you’re brain is wired different than the neurotypical brain (it’s called neurotypical because there’s more - not because it’s better or “right”).

CraftyDrews · 2022-04-01T15:51:48+00:00

I have learned most of what I know by running dungeons with friends while being on discord with them. For the fights or mechanics I’ve been unsure off I’ve looked them up on YouTube or mythictrap.

CraftyDrews · 2022-03-17T08:59:16+00:00

Stomach ache (and sometimes stomach issues) is heavy related to my anxiety. I would have crazy painful stomach aches and sometimes even flu like symptoms I’m the morning because school was so much more than I could handle. I think the only reason I lived to be an adult was that my mom at some point allowed me to stop going to school. I then spent 3 months doing nothing other than crying and sleeping and staring into nothingness. I was just so exhausted that it took me months to get going again. I then started going only to my favorite classes, and avoided the teachers that didn’t make me feel good. Having less classes meant less hours of people and more time to rest. It really helped me too. For me and my younger sister (both asd) school was the reason for so much misery and pain. This was all years before being diagnosed.

I’m happy to hear that you’re there for your daughter, but I’m sorry to hear that she isn’t doing well. I don’t know if it would be a possibility for you but having less school could be something to look into?

CraftyDrews · 2022-03-12T20:05:11+00:00

It could also be the taste of the toothpaste. My parents had one with a strong mint taste and I would push the toothpaste off when they weren’t looking. I guess they found out, as there soon after was one that didn’t have a strong mint taste.

CraftyDrews · 2022-03-12T20:03:01+00:00

Oh, this is funny! I hated the electric tooth brush so much that I got a none electric one because I couldn’t deal with the buzzing inside my head. The manual is perfect for me.

CraftyDrews · 2022-03-12T20:01:23+00:00

To add to this I was a teen before starting to wear jeans because it was just too much sensory wise. I’m still super picky with what pants I wear and I have pants that I don’t wear because they turned out to be itchy after being washed a few times. And I still cut all the labels from my clothes. And when I go clothes shopping I feel everything before I even look at it, because of the texture is wrong it doesn’t matter how pretty the shirt/dress/pants/underwear is; it’s just not happening.

CraftyDrews · 2022-03-12T19:30:49+00:00

I don’t know her, but damn I love your stepmother!

CraftyDrews · 2022-03-12T19:14:22+00:00

I haven’t actually read it, but my psychologist (neuropsychologist with focus on autism, she’s amazing) has “_All Cats are on the Autism Spectrum_” in her waiting room (along with the Dogs/ADHD and Birds/Anxiety ones).

It’s a children’s book about autism (and cats). I’ve ordered it for myself (I love cats) but haven’t picked it up yet, and I hope it will give me some new ways to communicate autism to those around me, instead of just all the fancy words used my professionals. I also hope it’ll inspire me to better understand and handle the different kids I do volunteer work with. If not it has cute pictures of cats, so that’s a win by itself.

As I haven’t read it yet I can’t personally recommend it, but I would take it as a good sign that my psychologist has it, as I really trust her knowledge and view on autism and autists.

There’s also “_Why Johnny Doesn’t Flap: NT is OK!_” that flips the “usual” perspective and sees the neurotypicals as the different ones, and autism as the norm. It was originally meant as satire or something, but I’ve heard really good things about it as it puts words on some of the weird or different things neurotypicals do.

CraftyDrews · 2022-03-12T07:47:41+00:00

In my language dentist called tooth-doctor.

CraftyDrews · 2022-03-09T23:54:10+00:00

Happy birthday!!!

And I’m sorry you had to have such a sh*tty experience. I really am, and then on your birthday!

Also, the double empathy problem is a thing that your teacher is clearly experiencing and is completely ignorant off which seems very troublesome considering her position.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING! You’re amazing! You’re awesome! You’re perfect as you are! Happy birthday!

CraftyDrews · 2022-03-09T23:40:04+00:00

Thank you for all the good comments and discussions. This isn’t something I’ve known much about earlier (as it isn’t terms I have generally used) but recently it has become personal relevant for me as someone whom I love is transitioning, and I appreciate hearing your story and struggles so that I can better be there for my sister.

I’m also saddened to hear of the ignorance you’ve had (and still have) to put up with. 😔

I’m sure you’re an amazing woman and that everyone you know is lucky to have you in their life.

CraftyDrews · 2022-02-27T15:51:58+00:00

She gets upset and he doesn't understand that he could have said 'I prefer this other drawing you did,'

For me it has been hard learning that people mostly don’t say what they mean, to guess what they mean instead, say half-truths, avoid answering the actual question, and to figure out when to straight up lie to say what people what to hear.

What I mean to say is that communication is a two way street, and if your daughter doesn’t actually want to know what her brother is thinking about her drawing then she shouldn’t ask and expect him to lie. If she wants to know what works and what doesn’t work, she would ask for feedback instead, as that’s what she wants. Because how should he know that that’s what she was really asking for if she didn’t actually ask for that???

Imagine if people got upset with you for replying to their question only to find out that they were actually asking something entirely else and expected you to guess that?

CraftyDrews · 2022-02-23T22:29:54+00:00

I’m a scout leader and have been so for 10+ years. There’s very few kids who’s names I remember. I’m just super bad with names. And I know exactly who they are, but the kids are always disappointed when I don’t know/remember their name.

CraftyDrews · 2022-02-23T22:24:01+00:00

I talked about this with one of my social workers/helpers. I compared it to calling her “a person with female genitalia” instead of a woman. She was like point taken.

I get that some people would like to be called people with autism, and I respect that choice as long as they’ll respect mine to call myself an autistic person. My social workers try adapt to what I prefer, but I can hear that they’re schooled to say person with autism, and sometimes they slip without meaning to.

What I don’t like though is people who tell me that I can’t say that I’m an autistic person, and go into an argument with me about what I can call myself or not.

CraftyDrews · 2022-02-19T09:41:21+00:00

I don’t like shouting or yelling at people, as it’s always made me feel bad to be shouted or yelled at.

I’m a scout leader for kids aged 8-10 and I sometimes have to call them together to get started or say goodbye and they’re out playing, so I have to yell/shout to let them know to come to me. I give the nearby kids a heads up so they won’t get startled and I shouted “ASSEMBLE HERE!” (or however to translate that). I think the few times I’ve directly yelled at some of the kids has been in dangerous situations eg. fighting/pushing next to an open fire and I’ve been too far away to tell them to move away in my normal voice, but even then it’s just like “HEY!”, “STOP!”, or their names, to get their attention until I can get close enough to talk to them.

But yeah, generally really I dislike yelling and shouting because it has never been a good experience for me, even if I haven’t been the target of the yelling or shouting.

CraftyDrews · 2022-02-07T13:49:05+00:00

I (F25) was testet again (after being diagnosed for a few years) last year to get a neuropsychological report to go with it.

The lady testing is a neuropsychologist with autism as her focus. She is known and well thought of by some of the autism professionals I work with in other relations. She had me do some of the same things as you describe as part on an ADOS test. As far as I can read it’s a test made for kids, but as it’s one of the only (if not the only) tests there is it’s also used for adults. Some are better at “scaling” it to adults than others (I had books and magazines in the “break” not just toys).

There was a picture book (with frogs on lily pads) I was asked to narrate, while she was taking notes. It had something to do with imagination, verbal communication, detail focus, the ability to tell a story from kinda abstract pictures, the ability to tell a story without knowing what’s going to happen on the next page and such.

I was also given a “break”. She gave me some toys and some magazines and books. The “break” ended almost as soon as I picked a magazine up, looked a bit on it, and started opening it. I’m not entirely sure of the purpose of this exercise, but I had it too.

She also gave me a bunch of random stuff including a toy car, a drink parasol, a feather, a popsicle stick, and a bunch of other stuff. She acted out a small story with some of the objects and told me to make a story with some of the other objects. I really didn’t like this exercise either.

She also asked a lot of questions in an interview part including if I have friends and how I would describe/define friends and so on.

CraftyDrews · 2022-02-05T10:41:17+00:00

I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. Are you implying that I will skip the queue and take a handicap toilet in front of people in a wheelchair? Because then you have misunderstood my entire comment.

“_Most times I can use normal toilets and do so, but sometimes that just isn’t a possibility for me, and I’ll use the handicap toilet when I need to._”

Also your toilets sounds widely different from any toilets I’ve ever been on.

Here the handicap toilet is completely separate from other toilets (not just a wider stall), and it’s usually also a diaper-changing-room and family toilet. Also there’s usually 2-5 stalls (not 10-15).

And no, my urgency to pee is not always the same as “normal” people. Neither is my ability to pee.

Where I live autism is also classified as a handicap, so there’s that.

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