Everyone who wakes up each morning at a 7 or above on a pain scale. Everyone who needs memory aids that people with dementia use and you have done every day for months or years. Everyone who hasn't been able to sleep in a decade. Everyone who is caring for a loved one who is suicidally depressed or in chronic pain or has another health issue while they themselves are struggling with the same (because there is nobody else but you and the buck stops here.) For everyone who can't tick off something on their to do list every day despite giving it their all. For everyone letting people down and pushing people away because they don't have the energy to explain why we're doing what we're doing, why we don't call or write, why we don't show up, why we don't have show more progress or change. For everyone doing everything they do with a toddler on the hip, or another adult's responsibilities on top of their own. For those who do everything via text because th
Somewhere in the last month or two I quietly took over running the show here and I just wanted to say hello and thanks for being awesome about that. I know our former leader Tania was much beloved, and her departure from the admin team might have caused something of a stir. But ultimately it had become time for her to take her fantastic self off to go do some even more amazing things, like running our first ever Autistic Strategies Network seminar on Autistic Health and to spend more time crafting informative posts and other worthwhile uses of her frankly invaluable time. I'm sure you'll have noticed there have been some changes in the group. There's a bit of a different vibe in the air. Suddenly we have a set of rules up, and there's a bit of a different feel to our moderation decisions. I have been trying to make our transition to new leadership less bumpy, but these things usually cause a bit of a stir so it is what it is. Hopefully, we'll get used to each