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I swear, I am so ready to be done with 2020.

  • Rana may have caught COVID - we're not entirely sure, because whenever she's been tested recently, they can't get the swab up as far as they should due to swelling from her nose surgery last month. Still, the symptoms line up, and she hasn't been anywhere near as careful as she should be, so it's probably COVID. (I swear, I didn't need any more Rana-related health crises this year...) In addition to Rana catching COVID, so did one of my co-workers, and two close friends have been exposed to it. Stay the hell at home, people. (although I'm probably preaching to the choir here)
  • My mental health has been up and down a bit lately - I'm still trying to walk/run regularly, and make sure I do something creative daily (even if it's just crocheting), and it's... sort of helping? Maybe I need to add regular journal-writing to my "try to keep yourself sane" list.
  • Found out we're working from home through the end of the spring semester - which means it'll have been over a year since I'd worked in the office regularly by the time I get to go back. I don't know how I feel about this. Hell, there are still co-workers I haven't seen in person since March. (And due to the "work at home through spring" notice, I kind of get the feeling that I'll get to celebrate another birthday in isolation - fuck 2020 and all the bullshit that came out of it.)

I try to look on the bright side of things, but it's hard sometimes. Still, I do have my health, and a safe place with very few people around to go walking and running, and I live with people who actually give a crap about my mental health. My life is going pretty well, considering everything going on - and if my brain hadn't been so much of a dumpster fire this year, I think I'd actually be pretty well off, pretty happy.

Buuuut 2020 had to happen, and so here I am, angry at all the selfish folks who can't be bothered to wear masks and wash their hands and stay the fuck at home because they'd rather go eat out at Cracker Barrel and pretend life is normal - after all, they're the only people in the world who matter, didn't you know? Fuck everyone else, Karen's gotta have her brunch! /sarcasm

Yeah. I think I might be experiencing the stages of grief out of order here, because I've gone from denial to depression to acceptance to anger.

dreamingpixels: (Depressed)
For some reason, I feel very embarrassed talking about this. I have to get it out somehow, though, and I think I'd be even more embarrassed bringing this up to my one real-life friend (Michelle), so you guys get to deal with me. Yaay.

To put it bluntly and short, I think I might have Asperger's Syndrome.

It would explain a hell of a lot about why I am the way I am. I suck at normal conversations and social interactions. I focus too much on random and obscure stuff, to the exclusion of things I should be worrying about. (Do you need to know something about Sailor Moon? I can give you the birthdays of half the characters, and tell you the original air dates of each season, and tell you all about how they cut so much out of the American version and what they cut out, but ask me about classwork, like Flash, and I'll give you a blank stare.) I have to stick to my morning and evening routines or I get really out of whack. (Each morning, I get up, take my blanket and put it on my chair, go get a cup of coffee, and surf the internet until 7:30, when I get dressed. I talk to Bryan, and we get ready together - even his being gone on Friday mornings throws me off. At night, I retrieve my blanket from where I left it on my desk chair, read or watch TV in bed, and then burrow under said blanket in a very specific way and sleep - if the blanket is gone, there is no way in hell I can sleep) I can't make friends for shit. I just don't know how to relate to people in real life.

I almost want Asperger's to be the answer to all that's wrong with me, because then it will have a label. Then, I can say "oh, it's because of this" and not feel like such a horrible, miserable failure of a human being.

I'm going to see if I can meet with Dr. Moose this week and bring it up with him - he's my usual doctor at Student Health Services. I really hope he doesn't laugh me out of his office. I don't know what I'd do then. I don't know where else to go.

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