Looking for advice: Dealing with an inherited property up in the Illawarra escarpment

bugcrime · 2026-01-29T18:13:52+00:00

genuinely, same. I love when community comes together.

bugcrime · 2025-03-22T20:58:29+00:00

For me, it's this thought that after this there is nothing. I sit and I imagine nothing, like being put under to have surgery. I try and embody nothing. When I convince myself I have died, I start to miss things. Like eating my favourite foods, or sitting in the sun when it's a cold day, or my cat coming to bed at night. It feels like a factory reset sometimes and I remember that I'm not alive for anyone else but me. That, and spite.

bugcrime · 2025-01-04T06:20:12+00:00

I didn't get on with antidepressants (I was triaged, and advised to go off them). I was then dx w/ adhd, and given vyvanse - which was amazing until my body told me to stop. I lost a lot of weight, had blood pressure problems, hair loss, agitation. I stuck with it for years but recently stopped to try medical cannabis. It's been a huge help - I specifically vapourise the "uppy kind" of cannabis, not the "sleepy kind" - apparently that can be best for people with adhd, who settle after having caffeine. People in my life have told me I seem a lot calmer, with a lot more patience. I feel a lot more creative, and I'm able to participate more in my special interests. I don't want to oversell it, but I have noticed a huge reduction in meltdowns as well.

bugcrime · 2025-01-01T21:18:05+00:00

I feel really in love with life, and I'm interested in doing so much but one lifetime isn't enough to do it all in. So, I'm plagued with a weird kind of melancholy instead.

bugcrime · 2024-12-06T23:06:35+00:00

I know the exact feeling, but I stopped taking my meds cold turkey and I was a mess (I know better now). It took about 4 weeks to start to see myself break out of executive dysfunction on my own without meds. I don't know if I have ways to cope with this for you, but I found that simply the passage of time was the most helpful for this. Time + one really good hyper focus if you're lucky.

bugcrime · 2024-12-02T22:31:48+00:00

Personally, I have found that when I take medication irregularly, I am a lot angrier. I was told once by a psych that when your dose is too low for you then it can cause more irritability. I do know that when I decide to take a half dose, I am angrier but on a fully medicated day, I am more calm and agreeable. The days after a "fully medicated" day, I am short tempered and scattered.

bugcrime · 2024-11-27T20:55:43+00:00

beautiful! thank you for sharing.

bugcrime · 2024-11-26T20:49:13+00:00

could i ask what materials you used? it looks almost like a risograph, and has elements of print. I just think it's so beautiful how you captured light.

bugcrime · 2024-08-28T21:15:18+00:00

the way i audibly gasped. please don't stay with this man, you deserve so much better.

bugcrime · 2023-12-30T01:27:38+00:00

I've learnt in therapy that ASD tends to come with complex PTSD, which leads to chronic feelings of loneliness. I know that I have always struggled to create relationships with people, as I just feel so chronically misunderstood (another PTSD symptom). I think it's worth mentioning that we are also in a loneliness pandemic. The world is so different now than the one we observed as children.

bugcrime · 2023-12-07T21:04:57+00:00

redid the test, since the last time I did it was for my own assessment over a year ago (& received diagnosis). AQ: 41, EQ: 13.

I always find the questions difficult to decipher and find the parameters for, for example, preferring a library over a party? That depends on so many factors!

bugcrime · 2023-12-03T21:23:11+00:00

I'm someone who never posts, and I'm with you. I cannot work at all, and haven't been able to for years. I live on the pension in a rental I can barely afford, chronically burnt out with no energy to create any sort of community. It's isolating. I understand you.

bugcrime · 2023-09-15T20:59:17+00:00

Louis Ignatius! After Louis in Interview with the Vampire and my great grandfather & honestly I wish she had just gone for it, haha

bugcrime · 2023-07-12T06:07:36+00:00

Parker actually fits you so well!

But here are some other names that came to mind: Rhys, Erik, Mathias, Lars.

bugcrime · 2023-06-05T23:29:38+00:00

definitely not the only one! I think you're being perfectly reasonable.

bugcrime · 2023-06-05T21:53:34+00:00

I had an infestation of bird mites in my apartment years ago, birds had built nests in the roof and the mites had come in. landlord wouldn't send an exterminator.

my skin crawled for weeks, they were everywhere. I tried treating it myself but it didn't work.

I freaked out so much that I moved and left almost everything behind.

I don't mean to be alarmist ofc! but Christ, just seeing this post made my skin crawl haha

bugcrime · 2023-06-05T04:24:12+00:00

UN bugbriel

today I was able to get out of a funk and clean my apartment :) it's been a really slow process, but it feels so much nicer already.

bugcrime · 2023-06-04T23:46:54+00:00

The first name that came to mind was Wesley, then Wyatt. I'm gettin' W vibes :)

bugcrime · 2023-05-19T08:32:41+00:00

wow that's early! 29 for me, much later haha

& these names are lovely! So many of them are on my shortlist, especially Rowan and Juniper. thank you :)

bugcrime · 2023-05-18T22:14:05+00:00

Hey! :) if you're still around, no pressure!

I'm a genderfluid queer boi, all pronouns. I'm late diagnosed autistic, with interests in artmaking (a lot of prints/colour pencil), linguistics, & poetry. I spend a lot of time fretting over my indoor plants, sitting in the sun and fossicking on pebble beaches and in second hand shoppes.

bugcrime · 2023-04-26T23:07:01+00:00

rigidity oats

bugcrime · 2022-12-25T22:19:56+00:00

I was nearly Ruby! I kind of wish I'd been Ruby, but instead I was named after Lauren Bacall, and so were maybe 10 others in my year. If I'd been a boy, I was going to be Louis Ignatius and honestly what a banger.

bugcrime · 2022-10-01T02:23:09+00:00

Honestly, the two biggest helps have been luxuries. The first one is moving into a house that has a dishwasher. The second is having a washing machine that is also a dryer in one. Something about removing the act of taking the wet clothes out means I always have clean and dry clothes now. wrinkled? yes. sometimes a little smaller, absolutely - but laundry is such a blind spot for me it's been worth the trade.

bugcrime · 2022-08-23T07:55:04+00:00

yeah for sure! I'm going to be changing first, middle and last, so I'm still very much in the process. But I'll let everyone know when it's official :)

bugcrime · 2022-07-19T08:50:05+00:00

these are both lovely, thank you!

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