Well, it's here. The headaches, the IBS, the toe curling anxiety, the lists and lists of lists, the shops are crowded, the noises are dementing. Happy bloody Christmas!
Read an interesting article - Metro - Toronto: World: Autism Friendly Santas - newish initiative set up for children on the spectrum. A fully trained 'sensitive Santa' can fulfill long held family dream of a good photo with a beloved child. These Santas take their cue from the child. If the little one is not for lap sitting, that's okay - there are no noises and lights to worry them either. It's all calm and at the child's pace. What a wonderful world we live in. It does give you hope.
The great blessing for Aspies is the internet - mainly because I never have to hit another shop if I organise myself properly. Unfortunately I haven't got it all quite right yet. Had to run out at my lunch break to find a turkey big enough for the family. And while I was suffering the hell that is supermarket, I picked up sprouts, carrots and a number of bits and bobs. That took about ten minutes. Waiting in the queue to pay for the crap was another twenty.....
Supermarkets are the great con of our lifetime. In the olden days, we could visit our local shop and sit in a chair and have produce bought to the counter by an assistant, bagged up and now and again dumped on an account. Not so the great food retailers. First of all, we have to trail around their shop, to buy their products (that's hard enough) and then to add insult to injury, we are asked to unload said goods for their convenience, get it all priced up and then reload/bag it ourselves and cart the whole lot to the car/bus/taxi. Not once does anyone question the wisdom of this. We all just do it. And now, for our own joy, you can self-scan. Cut someones job and do it all yourself. Who in their right mind thought all this up? And the little sheep go 'baaaaa'....
Well, I am finally left with the unreasonable anxiety that I haven't got enough or that I have forgotten something that will ruin the entire day....
If only someone could point out what that is.
And of course, if I haven't got enough, I will just have to patch it up with promises. Like it will be better next year. And you know? It simply never is! Always chaotic, always heartstoppingly terrifying.
If I don't blog before Christmas - do have a wonderful day. Aspies - this is a day of high expectations of you. Reach for it - you can sleep it all off on Boxing Day!
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