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Dave 🇨🇦 
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@dave@autisticnomad.social
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AuDHD, optimist, lover of learning, tinkerer, freelance software engineer
I live in an RV and travel around Canada
Currently stationary on Vancouver Island.
Header: Large bus-sized RV with a small blue car parked in front. Palm trees in the background stand tall against the early glow of a sunset.
Profile: Man with glasses and reddish beard standing on a suspension bridge over a gorge
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Joined September 14, 2023
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Qualicum Beach, BC 🇨🇦
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@actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe @actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe I expect most neurodivergent folk can relate to this: whenever I have an idea for a project, I have an initial phase of excitement. Yes, I can do this! Love this idea!
Then my brain spins off in a hundred different directions, identifying all the complexities and things I have to think about and all the work involved and all the ways it could go wrong.
I feel WAY overwhelmed before I've even started, and it just takes the wind right out of my sails. Now I'm overwhelmed and stressed and this doesn't sound interesting or exciting at all.
The obvious answer is break it down into smaller, manageable pieces. What other ideas or strategies might help alleviate this overwhelm?
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@AutisticInnovator GIMP and Krita are both solid free and open source tools for graphics, art, drawing etc.
Inkscape as well for vector graphics.
I have a friend who did an Autism assessment, the result of which was, to paraphrase: If you were assessed as a child, you almost certainly would've been diagnosed with Asperger's. But you've developed sufficient coping skills to avoid being diagnosed at this point in your life.
Isn't that basically saying: yes you broke your leg, but you spent years fashioning a splint out of a log, so you can kinda walk now, so your leg isn't really broken anymore?
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