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[unicornduke]

 I spent a long time telling myself that I wasn't 1000% sure I was autistic and I obviously was handling life fine and didn't need any more coping mechanisms because I was fine. 

Let me tell you, wearing noise cancelling headphones in a grocery store is the best damn thing I've ever done.

And also things keep popping up where I go: well, I guess I might actually be autistic for realsies 

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[unicornduke]

Yeah, it was 50 bucks! Some money! But I don't come out of grocery stores exhausted and panicky and given grocery stores are necessary once a week, it was such a good thing to do.

Because I could cope with all the noise, I could! But it was so hard, like you say, bailing out with a spoon.

I won't ever get a diagnosis because I don't need it for official accommodations at work. But only because I found people at work who just deal with how I am as a person and are cool with me. I'm not the only absolute weirdo on the team so it's nice. But borrowing techniques and things really works well anyway, no matter what. If only the rest of life were so accommodating (cough cough fucking apartment).

[graydon]

Presuming these particular headphones last a year, that's a buck a week. Easy to justify just on time not spent recombobulating.

Yay! work. It's good when there's no organizational drive to enforce a norm. (this is surprisingly difficult to get in general.)

There's a sign up next door which makes me think it's going to get torn down and turned into town homes, which is another reason I need to get out of here. Kitchener has various older apartments but the prospect of noise management doesn't much appeal. Have to stop waffling pretty soon.