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TTT-The Child-like Struggle of Being Me

As promised, another Trauma Therapy Tidbit (yeah you!). So here is something that has been building, but came to a head this past week...since I have the emotional capacity of a 12-year old (so sayeth the Psychiatry books) because I'm on the Autistic scale, is it OK for other adults (aka my bosses) to treat me like a child on a constant basis and not professionally (as they do everyone else)? And it's blatant, I'm talking full-on scolding, like you would a petulant child. I WAS a horribly petulant child, so I recognize the behavior (but I was also undiagnosed with numerous mental disabilities and a LOT of external factors that made things worse, so I think I should get a pass or two). It's a behavior I've always noticed, and bitched about it quite frequently (often being told I'm imagining it), but this time, someone else saw it too. An event happened where, I did as instructed (instructed being the keyword here, I was helping out another employee so she c...

Been a while...life been too sucky to report

I've been trying hard not to post anything that was too "Debbie Downer", hence my lack of posting. I haven't been stitching other than a brief 20 minute stint back in January (which I'll show later). The mood just hasn't been there. Frankly, the mood just hasn't been there to do anything. I don't want to do a TTT post, so we'll just leave that there. I can show you picks of our "wonderful" weather than has plagued us all week. Somehow, work has (again) been the toxic element in my life, especially when I made my way to work Monday through this lens (technically, this picture was taken on the drive home, but you still get the idea): Only to arrive at a job where all the lights in my department were completely off because no one was there! No one bothered to let me know that the lab staff had worked the day before (not that they affect me much, but it would have been nice to know I could have stayed home). There were a couple of...