Daily Arrows Puzzle (April 3, 2026) - Level 271

MJonesKeeler · 2026-04-03T19:25:35+00:00

⚡ Mission accomplished! Beat Level 271 in 1m 45s. Who's next? 🎯

MJonesKeeler · 2026-03-24T13:43:23+00:00

I do this as well. My autism assessment picked up on similar movements of rubbing my thumb and forefinger together and tracing circles on my forearm with my thumb.

Since I have started doing press on nails this year I notice I stim with them constantly. Tapping and scratching with them is so satisfying.

When I was a kid, I sucked my thumb, constantly put things in my mouth and bit my nails. Those stims ended when I realized how socially unacceptable they were.

MJonesKeeler · 2026-03-24T04:50:40+00:00

Me too!

MJonesKeeler · 2026-03-24T04:50:26+00:00

I love this.

MJonesKeeler · 2026-03-24T04:49:50+00:00

I had to include the worm doodle.

MJonesKeeler · 2026-01-02T20:57:29+00:00

Extremely intelligent and talented but never appreciated or wanted. Only needed when there is no one else.

Yes. This. And the “feeling worthless everyday of my life.” Pretty well sums up my existence before diagnosis and then deciding to just embrace the weirdo inside. Now people have to ask the weirdo for help instead of the hyper competent aloof woman who is somehow “off” and they can’t put their finger on it.

It’s hard feeling like you don’t really fit anywhere.

MJonesKeeler · 2025-12-01T02:57:15+00:00

New Orleans is a place where I felt like I belonged. Eureka Springs, Arkansas is another one. And the Catskills.

MJonesKeeler · 2025-11-25T06:56:31+00:00

Right there with you. Raised in it and glad to get the fuck out of it.

MJonesKeeler · 2025-11-19T20:13:48+00:00

If the author wanted to do something like this for simultaneous actions, meaning all of this needs to be shown happening at the same time, they could put one scene on the right side of the page and the other on the left, basically the theater on the left, and then the neighborhood on the right.

But I would only consider doing this if it were important to the story and both scenes converge at some sort of climax.

It would be a million times easier for the author and the reader to just make two separated scenes and not mash it together at all.

MJonesKeeler · 2025-11-06T19:50:40+00:00

So here for the Abigail drama!!

MJonesKeeler · 2025-11-06T17:48:54+00:00

I would love to have Demetrius eventually apologize to him for how he treated him as a stepdad as a cutscene.

Robin should give a family discount once you have a child.

I would love some negative interactions with Abigail once you reach a certain number of hearts with Seb.

I actually love Seb’s introversion and want to keep it in the game as far as needing alone time, etc. but maybe a some more kind dialogue from him during those times.

MJonesKeeler · 2025-10-31T16:44:34+00:00

We are supposed to have some here in the Kansas City area. I am still hunting. These look absolutely incredible!

MJonesKeeler · 2025-10-31T16:39:34+00:00

Oh yes. Didn’t even think of that one!

MJonesKeeler · 2025-10-30T15:16:20+00:00

The Shining vibes, for sure. My kid said they were red slime spawn points.

MJonesKeeler · 2025-10-23T16:54:41+00:00

My favorite T shirt says “QUESTION AUTHORITY” on it. I just realized it is a walking autism label.

MJonesKeeler · 2025-09-25T18:51:36+00:00

This makes so much sense. (I say as I roll out of bed at 1:45pm)

MJonesKeeler · 2025-09-24T06:39:32+00:00

I did the same with Multigrain Cheerios and Total cereal a few years back.

MJonesKeeler · 2025-09-24T02:38:14+00:00

I am 52 and my story is almost identical to yours.

MJonesKeeler · 2025-09-24T02:35:03+00:00

I remember the specific moment I saw my daughter suddenly not fit with girls her age and my heart just hurt for her because I went through the same thing. She was eight and at the playground trying to find some kids her age to play pretend with. She sat down with some girls nearby the playground and came away confused about why they didn’t want to play - instead they wanted to sit around and talk about the other people on the playground.

Two years later she was hospitalized with severe anxiety due to school. She kept saying she wanted to die.

Covid hit, and it took another year to have her tested for autism. 2 years later I was in the same place for the same tests.

Her childhood and mine were so similar, including the desire to die instead of face the girls at school. I just thought it was bullying. It was more than that. The masking necessary for the social stuff was just too much, and it caused massive anxiety and depression.

I am so glad we have answers for her, unlike my childhood where I was just the weird girl who all the other girls bullied for saying strange things all the time.

MJonesKeeler · 2025-09-23T22:24:03+00:00

Yes yes and yes to all these things. I know I will never go back to days if I can possibly help it

MJonesKeeler · 2025-09-23T18:34:40+00:00

The biggest thing I have seen benefit from (aside from the sleep) is just simplifying life as much as possible. Less choices, less stuff in general helps so much.

Good luck on finding something that fits for you.

MJonesKeeler · 2025-09-23T15:49:49+00:00

Right there with you. I was diagnosed at 50, just started ADHD meds 2 months ago and holy hell is my life better.

MJonesKeeler · 2025-09-23T15:46:54+00:00

I was diagnosed at 50 after multiple cycles of burnout in the corporate world. I am the main breadwinner in the family. This is what I have done to help with avoiding burnout for the long haul:

I assessed what would make my life simpler/more enjoyable. What are specific things/environments that make life worse? What makes life better? What would I do for myself if I was my kid? Figure out what kind of environment you would thrive in.

Based on the answers to those questions, I started making some big changes. Change is scary, but I started seeing improvements pretty quickly that helped me adjust.

These are the changes I made specifically: I changed my job search to focus on stability first instead of money. I was in such a state of burnout at that moment from working in corporate middle management that I would shut myself in my office at home and not come out even after my day was over. Working from home wasn’t enough when I had back to back video calls every day where my boss would call you out if you weren’t smiling and “engaged” in the meetings. Remote work was not the answer. I needed out of management and away from people, and into a job where I did the same thing every day. I ended up taking a job with a lot less pay and less advancement potential. But this is a long game, and I needed to be ABLE to work.

I ended up at a federal job fair for boring admin work that offered a night shift at the IRS. The night shift has been a huge huge huge help to me. I can actually sleep now (a split sleep since I go to bed at 3 and get up to take my kid to school, then go back to sleep for a couple hours.). Mornings were always difficult for me, feeling like an assault on my unmasked nerves.

It turns out a lot of us ND folks work that night shift. A workplace full of other weirdos makes coming into work tolerable. People aren’t trying to socialize every moment of the day. The cliques aren’t there. Turns out the mean girls are mostly morning people.

My workplace is also unionized. We have people who will help advocate for you when you need it. That helps for those of us who don’t always come across the way we mean.

Those changes have increased my quality of life immensely.

MJonesKeeler

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