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Night Shift

Night Shift

Since I am awake at 4am I thought I'd start this thread for those of us who have trouble sleeping and might find it helpful to have a place to go to chat. Whatever gets you through the night is alright.

To get the ball rolling, I'll just say that I enjoyed being part of the Topic Tuesday discussion tonight. I wish it was possible for these events to be weekly rather than monthly. Either way, thanks SANE and all the people I've met on here over recent months.

Edited June 2016 and February 2017: Night Shift is now open 24 hours a day. To join in, just click through to the last page of the thread at the top right of this post to get to the latest message.

Edited April 2017 and June 2017: For the sake of better communications between members here, I am adding that this thread is meant to be a caring, kind and gentle place of sharing. Humour is welcome, as long as its not unkindly directed towards other members. Hope your time in this chat thread is rewarding.

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Thanks @Appleblossom 🌸

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Hi @Faith-and-Hope and @plasmo and anyone else on here at the moment. Had a good snooze already and now wide awake again.

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@plasmo you could see a therapist and discuss your diagnosis again if you wanted to. Personally I wouldn't give up my dsp all at once. We are allowed to work up to 30 hours a week if we feel able to without losing it completely and that gives us a safety net during the transition time just in case it proves too challenging or we need to try different things to find our niche.

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yeah not sure if i want to go through it all again, i probably have enough to qualify me for it, just it seems i'm not really a classic aspie case. i was talking ti my support worker probably last year saying how i was bored of it all and wanted to work, he convinced me i wasnt ready and to just take time working on my health

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Sounds like you know what you want @plasmo. I still feel like that too. I wouldn't deal with going through it all again and have tried to work and had it blow up in my face already. Makes me very reluctant until I'm sure I'm ready.

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yeah i've got some ideas of what i want to do, following through is another matter though

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If you were up to it, what sort of thing would you like to do @plasmo?

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yeah i cant really say, just have a few ideas

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Hi @Mazarita How was your day today?

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@plasmo I can't go back to the line of work I used to be in and find it really hard to see what I would like to do if I was working again. At some stage I'll probably just start with some sort of part-time voluntary work.

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