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Welcome to the latest in my series of "weh touchin grass" posts. The joke of this post here is that I got tested for allergens as a kid, primarily for cat and treenut allergies, and it was revealed that I have a minor allergy to trees and grass touch-grass stalin-gun-1stalin-gun-2

My absolute favourite internet interactions (other than big stinky discussion posts <3) are when I can actually get to know people, sorta. Because Autism this sometimes takes the form of an internal "dossier" of facts n traits about people that I add more to as I observe or talk to them. It sounds weird but I promise you it's fine, you have to trust me. More than a couple of times I've had really fulfilling connections with people, which is not something I can really say about people irl. egh irl people

Thing is though I can only really even do this online. Social interactions do not start for me irl. Anxiety is so fuckin thick that the couple of times people who seemed cool or interesting have approached me, I have literally run away. I can't do it, is all. Fhis is also why I never followed up on poking that queer place in my town or finding orgs or whatever, I would die if I went inside a place.

I could take either an SSRI/SNRI or maybe loprazolam about it? But fuck that, seriously. The former flattens me, and the latter... I'm already taking tram longterm, am I gonna add barbituates to that list?? So I'm gonna keep being a weird little anxious ball that can only talk to people through a keyboard. Statement On Touching Grass.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

an internal "dossier" of facts n traits about people that I add more to as I observe or talk to them

!!!!!

I do this too!!!

I think I'm also a little allergic to grass โ€“ it gives me itchy welts ๐Ÿ˜

it might also be the Ehlers-Danlos letting the blades of grass slice me ๐Ÿ˜‚ I've just realized in the last 36 hours that having tissue paper skin, woobly joints, weird guts, being tired a lot, and that one time my appendix exploded might all be related, and I should probably get evaluated for EDS.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I gotta keep notes internally on who and how a person is!!

Grass allergy sucks honestly... Oh that's a lot of symptoms, yeah that would suck if it's EDS :/