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Last post for context: What do I do…?? | TW mentions of stress dreams and one swear

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I’ve moved out of where I used to live with my mom and one of my older sisters (has 3 kids now) 2 years ago. I think because it’s summer break for my 2 older nephews, I’m now getting a lot more stress dreams related to my mom and my older sister (my mom was the persecutor of emotional abuse, and I never liked my sister since she’s similar and agrees with her often).

I dropped out of high school after sophomore year many years ago because of being constantly overstimulated and high levels of stress and meltdowns I’ve had over there (especially when constantly trying to get the best grades in a very unnecessarily strict school, horrible place for autistic individuals like me!!). After that, I’ve noticed that more stressful dreams came up after that and it was almost everyday that I’ve gotten them at that point. Now, for that theme, it isn’t too much, usually 1to 3 times a week.

Now, I’m getting these stress dreams related to my mom and older sister constantly ever since late June. Before then, it was a mix of dreams of school and mom and sister for 1 to 3 times a week. Even when I’ve had great days, nothing has changed, not even yesterday. If I’m right, these dreams may last until late August when my 2 older nephews go back to school again. I really fucking hope not, I can only carry so much. I really don’t want them to fucking last for that long, I hate getting them and I don’t want to fucking deal with them anymore. I’m sick of it. How the fuck as I supposed to look forward to sleep now?!

I worry that if this continues for longer, I’m going to start feeling suicidal again. I can already feel that happening as I’m already fucking sick of these dreams every fucking day (there had been like 2 or 3 days where I didn’t had them, not consecutively, either). Why do I even have to fucking deal with this? Why did my early life had to be like this?!

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Ever since the middle of last month, I’ve been having stress dreams pretty much everyday. It used to be just around twice a week… why? I hate this so much. I want it to be back to normal. It’s now pissing me off.

Is it just thanks to the crapload of stressors I’ve had? Of course it is, it has to be. The traumatic flashbacks, the interrupted routines, being done with Amazon, the news about Target and (I think) Dollar General (and yes, even though Target did apologize, as a minority I cannot fully trust them anymore until I see loads of genuine improvement moving forward), summer’s existence (I hate summer)…. even when I’m no longer stressed by these things at times, even when days were great, I’m still having stress dreams everyday…

I even had such a great birthday unexpectedly last month. All of this now just seems like a very rude awakening. I wish I’ve never turned another age…. 🙁

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Where do you see things going in the next 5-10 years?
My hope is that it shifts to be even more inclusion of black autistic women and the stigma around autism is removed, people sometimes shy away from us when they learn your autistic before even getting to know you before even giving you a chance all because of their ignorance from what they have heard so my hopes are that society dissolves some of these and we are given a fair chance at life, I also hope to see the media handle autism with more care a lot of times there is a lot of misinformation being spread about autism or you are only hearing about the bad side but rarely the joys, there's so much about autism that people need to see there are so many things this world can learn from our neurodivergent minds

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Sometimes it feels like NT’s are speaking a whole different language maybe it feels that way to them to when their trying to get me to comprehend things sometimes 😂🥴 however I no longer feel guilty about that because that would me feeling guilty for being born, because that’s all I did was be born 🤷🏽‍♀️ I just happen to be wired differently so naturally navigating a world not made for me is going to be a bit more challenging but I do my best & that’s what matters most 🥰 neurodivergent people deserve grace we bend A LOT to navigate this world I don’t think it’s asking too much for this world to bend just a little for us 🫶🏽🌸♾️ different doesn’t mean stupid 👌🏽 #Autistic #AutismSpectrumDisorder #AutismSpectrum