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Autistic lockdown mental health

Autistic lockdown mental health

hello friend Hello friend. I’m Pete Carr and welcome queue lasers to my newsletter. pew pew Each week I talk about mental health, show some photos from my travels, pre-lockdown as I’m sure you’re not interested in the commute from bedroom to kitchen, and talk about geeky

No stress

hello friend Hello. How are you? Week 6 of lockdown is drawing to a close. I hope it’s been a good week for you. We’ve been spending our lockdown watching a TV show called ‘The Magicians’. It’s not a reality show about magic. It’s a modern

Worry dipping

hello friend It is Friday. How was your week? Mine has been an exercise in anxiety management. Tomorrow morning I’m voluntarily going for an open water swim (probably a dip). It is cold enough right now that standing around in just shorts would be considered silly. Walking into a

Christmas complexity

hello friend This is the end of a week, month, year and decade. How are you? Was Christmas ok? We spent it in a pocket universe. We normally spend it at my in-laws who live around 350 miles away. Christmas for me is difficult because I’m taken away from

Hugs

hello friend How’s things? You doin ok? I was forced to bed early last night due to a migraine. I spent 12 hrs in bed and feel exhausted. It’s raining outside. It’s cold. I’m stuck inside and I can’t really look at my computer or

Being right

hello friend I was never the cool kid at school. I knew of Oasis and Blur but honestly I had no idea why they were at war. Sonic vs Mario, that I understood. I was the kid who gave a presentation on the USS Enterprise D. When another guy did

Questioning Christmas

hello friend Christmas will soon be upon us. Every year I question it. It’s never been easy for me and I understand that part of those issues is down to being autistic. Christmas food isn’t for me. I don’t do wet food so eating dry overcooked Christmas