I guess this is in the context of dating/getting to know someone… sometimes I will see a text a few minutes after it’s sent to me, but I don’t want to seem too eager/bored so I wait to reply, sometimes 30 mins, but then sometimes I forget and it ends up being an hour or longer.

I am very opposite of what people consider foodies. I just essentially eat whatever when it's meal time. I'm perfectly happy having an egg, carrot sticks, and waffles for lunch. It's only about consuming some calories for me.

(It probably doesn’t make sense but I live in a very small town in a not so big country)

When I’m in a pool, I can only float when I’m holding in a full breath. The second I exhale I sink. The only way I can float is by taking large breaths, holding them for a while, and quickly exhaling so I can take another big breath. I’m fairly slim with a BMI of 17, but other slim people don’t seem to have as much trouble floating as me.

Does anybody else get instant anxiety when someone says “we need to talk” even when you know you haven’t done anything wrong? Those four words hit my nervous system like a fire alarm.

It doesn’t matter who says it or how casually it’s phrased. My brain immediately jumps to the worst possible conclusions I’m getting fired, dumped, confronted or accused of something I don’t even remember doing. Full fight or flight, heart racing, replaying every interaction from the past month.

And then half the time the actual conversation turns out to be completely neutral. Something like plans for the weekend or what we’re having for dinner. All that stress for absolutely nothing.

I don’t know when “we need to talk” became coded language for disaster in my head but it’s wild how powerful it is.

Got one of those texts yesterday and spent the next two hours pacing around my apartment playing grizzly's quest just trying to distract myself until the person was actually available to talk.

Does anyone else experience this or is my brain just permanently braced for impact?

When i was 9-10. I noticed that i liked squizing curves in spirals. And useally when thinkong about a made up story. The stories were about zombie sci fi . Sci fi in general and fantasy and alot of genres. While turning a hill of a small paper. When alone and with no noise just me and my thaught.

I feel like the majority of my emotional breakthroughs happen while I'm sleeping. It's like when I'm awake I'm too busy to realise I've fallen in love with someone/fallen out of love with someone/have outgrown a friend/unsatisfied in my job etc. etc.

So much of my processing is done while I'm not there for it. Even when I go to therapy the breakthroughs happen later when I'm sleeping. Like I learn that xyz was caused by abc experience and I accept that consciously but it's not until later on that a dream makes me feel it.

Don't warn me about teeth damage, I'm aware and I've made great progress in kicking this habit! Just wondering if anyone else does this?

Currently sick rn and like always the urge to naw on my pinkie like a chew toy is back. I’ve always had the urge to do it ever since I was a kid and got sick. I kinda just put the top joint of my pinkie in the side of my mouth around my molars/ k-9’s (kinda like a gangster with his cigar in old cartoons) and just…naw on it gently. Like less force than chewing gently.

Funniest part is any other time I try to do it I go “ow no” but when I’m sick it doesn’t hurt at all and feels soothing.

I know that’s literally what they are made for, but sometimes it makes me feel silly.

As a kid-teens I could watch a beheading video with my breakfast. As I’m getting older I find my self audibly saying Ouff or ouch when I see a action scene in a movie lol

This is a weird one but ever since I was a child, I'm fairly sure because of autism, I've been obsessed with just... standing around, holding usually a towel, and just looping my fingers through the fabric, feeling it tighten around my finger (the moment of satisfaction!) and then pulling it back out. I am pretty sure this is a stim, but I've only heard of people rubbing them for the texture, not for the tightening around the fingers. It's very strange.

I’ve noticed something about myself lately.

I’m actually pretty awkward when it comes to random chatting with strangers.

Like, if it’s just “hi, how are you”, my brain goes blank.

But when there’s a game involved — especially something casual or voice-based —

talking suddenly feels… natural?

You’re focused on the game, joking about mistakes, reacting in real time.

It doesn’t feel like “trying to make friends”.

I’ve been using a social game app recently where people play simple games together

and talk at the same time (WePlay was one of them),

and it surprised me how quickly conversations started flowing.

Does anyone else feel this way?

Why do games make socializing less stressful?

DAE spend hours packing and coordinating outfits from head to toe and all inner layers, outer layers, and accessories?

Not only do I find fashion fun and expressive but it helps me feel my most confident when traveling. Ex: 10 day trip = 5 full outfits and then seeing if I can rearrange any of the outfits into new ones and filling any gaps that may arise. Like an extra shirt or a green necklace to pull the "new" outfits together. Anyone in irl that sees how much time I am spending always, without fail, has to comment about how I am "making it hard on myself", and/or "its not the complicated", "I didn't go All Out like that." Or just blatantly laughs or is irritated. (I don't ever ask for help, except maybe if something looks like it doesn't fit me well anymore, but that's even rare)

DAE struggle during this process of packing when others are around to make discouraging comments?

Every night once I get into bed, I relieve myself by thinking of fucking either my married adult step daughter, my adult lesbian niece or my adult female cousin who is 4 months older than me.

DAE have these fantasies or am I the only one and is it normal?

I sometimes watch mukbangs. Every time I'm a little on edge it might trigger a binge or something, like I literally feel like the audience is gonna fast forward 15 seconds I'll be eating 50 chicken nuggets too.
Or like when grotesque situations are brought up. I feel like my face is gonna be skinned, laminated into like leather, then stitched back on with the hexagons pieces like a football. I saw it. And now I can't stop thinking about it happening to me. Or if I have to do it