GRATITUDE

@avant-garde

Filling out forms! Not only do i love it, but in my last job, I always used to volunteer for creating any forms they needed. I loved creating them,laying them out, making them into efficient administrative art!

oh that actually sounds fun!! i'm going to note that down for when i got to the games world again. @avant-garde what made you get into all these board games/card games?

@MJG017

One thing that drives me nuts is inefficient forms, they just photocopy what they've always had and don't let me improve it!

I love making forms and probably one of the few people who likes the efficiency of Centrelink forms, those are done well.

@rav3n

I don't know actually, I don't like not remembering things... I just know I like them

you like them and that's all that matters anyways! @avant-garde i have a few friends who joined card clubs at their uni or had game nights that sparked their love for it... i don't have an origin story that i remember either though.

Happy Birthday. Hoping someone gives you a winning ticket for your birthday,so U can get that aircon. @Oaktree

I'm grateful for the time to reflect and thankful things aren't worse.

I think having time to reflect is great @Dimity as long as it does not turn into rumination.

I am grateful for many things and am trying to work gratitude into my day, to try and boost my MH. I am starting to recover after a few months of being quite down and although I tried gratitude strategy earlier, I could not sustain it because I was so down, but now I'm finding I can hang on to gratitude much more. Thanks for posting @Dimity as I didn't know this thread existed

I agree gratitude can be hard to sustain @Till23 . But sometimes the smallest of things can bring a glimmer.

Yes I agree @Dimity I also think when you practice it you get better at it and realise more things that you are grateful for.

I'm grateful I had a good day today, got to play table tennis for 2 hrs with some other oldies like me.

I'm grateful that I managed to cross a few things of my to do list today, like mowing the lawn

I'm grateful I can have that the temperature has fallen and I can have a warm snuggle in my bed tonight, and a little sleep in tomorrow.

I liked how @AuntGlow put it

Things that made me smile today

1. Trying (and failing) at a bunch of different claw machines
   1. Pokemon
   2. Pusheen
   3. Giant ducky
   4. Pokemon (different)
2. Dancing Dreamy Stitch at different points in Lilo and stitch
3. Having lost my voice slightly when trying to communicate with the cinema person and using dreamy to communicate that I wanted to see Lilo and Stitch, one person, on concession, in the middle.
4. Seeing kids look at dreamy and smile and point
5. Going to my old craft store with a 50% off voucher and getting a really cool diamond dot travel case
6. Also getting a bunch of clearance stuff and a new accomplishment beanie boo
7. I got the RGB lamp I had wanted at a second hand place for $15 instead of $60
8. I got a happy meal and hot chocolate
9. Got this disgustingly hot pink unicorn in a surprise bag and the plan isn't too burn it, rather give it to my "brother" for his birthday next month. It did remind me of @Jynx though, hence the smile
10. Finding a football team candle for the team my brother hates for his birthday
11. Going to the library and just settling before driving home

@tyme

I know it seems like I don't get it all the time, that I don't branch out and that I'm stuck in my ways. But the fact is that I plan meticulously for things that may happen, I cope ahead really really well, but that's AHEAD, not in the moment.

Unexpected change I don't handle well and asking me to reach out in the moment to whoever is online isn't something I can do easily, it never has been.

I find small talk difficult, so when I'm struggling, to ask me to

1. Go outside my comfort zone
2. Jump in on a busy thread with a lot of responses
3. Feel like I'm intruding
4. Attempt to make small talk
5. Try and show that I care to others
6. ...

It's too overwhelming for me to do that if I'm going to continue with this emotion regulation thing that seems to be required in order to adult.

I find it difficult to engage with more than one person at a time or talk about things that don't have a purpose in my head.

It's like everyone I interact with here, I have learned how to interact with that suits me and learned who's best suited for different situations.

I try and jump in but it is so hard and exhausting for me when I'm normally already depleted from the onslaught of triggers in my everyday life.

I'm not the only neurodivergent on here and I've learned that a lot of us are like this, from my best friend to various users who have talked about it on here.

I'm still trying to understand.

Gratitude 12. Actually being able to be in a frame of mind to write that.