Just realized why I can't do #yoga even though I want & need to -

because I found the right 1 & it worked

#FML

Between #Burnout #alexithymia #Perimenopause and being pretty much disconnected from my body all the time, yoga is almost like a guided #meltdown

I know it's good & I crave those releases but damn its asking a lot of my #AutisticInertia to get it to voluntarily take a stroll through the ruins of Trauma Town.

#Weekends ugh.

On 1 hand, 💖 because I'm an #Autistic person working 40+/wk and these days I'm utterly wiped out by #Monday afternoon.

On the other 😢 because another person is in the house all day, which makes my #AutisticInertia 10x worse.

Was supposed to spend time before supper relaxing, maybe watching a movie but once a task gets in my brain, and as long as my brain marks it as, "hey! I can Frelling do this! 😃 " it will insist on doing it or at least spending as much time & dice (spoons) on making progress towards the end goal.

Result: No pre-supper chill out, Tomorrow's schedule needs rearranging as I am soooo watching a movie with supper!

Just the perks of #AutisticInertia
#Life #MyLife #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Autistic

@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic

Usually until about 2 hours before I should really be thinking about getting some sleep :/

Meds I'm on don't help in that regard.

#ActuallyAutistic #Autisticinertia

@doggle @actuallyautistic I tend to favor #AutisticInertia / #Monotropism as an explanation of why I find it hard to get started doing something (or stop doing something). The term "demand avoidance" reeks of #Ableism to me.

The theory has recently been expanded by Fergus Murray and his late mother Dinay: see https://monotropism.org/.

Fergus is on Mastodon but I don't remember his handle.

Ugh, out of sorts this morning, feeling icky for no particular reason, grappling with #AutisticInertia.

Rain forecast for today and it's the feast of the Immaculate Conception so I can't even go to the library. Everything here is closed.

There's a break in the clouds, though, so if I can get my act together I may go for a walk. Perhaps it will change my outlook, God willing.

And it's not like I don't have plenty of chores and study that I'd be best off doing. Sometimes I can overdo it on the structure, but what's ahead of me today will bring about benefits right away God willing.

This state of being is hardly unique to #Autism but I think we're especially vulnerable to it.

#Autistic #ActuallyAutistic

@actuallyautistics how are we all doing?

@Chelley @devxvda @FreyaSu @actuallyautistic Back to back stuff kills me, but taking breaks just lets the #AutisticInertia take over. A body in motion stays in motion, and the inverse. I find it best simply not to have too many scheduled activities, period.

Fighting #AutisticInertia at the moment with regard to doing a day's work on some challenging learning projects.

Getting off my bum in 3...2...1...

Anyone else? @actuallyautistic

I now know why my father's comments wer memorable. #AutisticInertia makes me slow and at times I sit on the couch and do next to nothing for hours on end. And I resent having to do anything.

I was like that as a kid, and I'm like that as an old woman. I held down fulltime jobs and had just about nothing left to give to anything else in between.

@actuallyautistic

@autism101 pushing past #AutisticInertia , and being socially invisible or disliked just for my general demeanor, are my two biggest challenges #ActuallyAutistic #AutADHD

@awsamuel I'm not a fan of the label, which feels stigmatizing to me ... I prefer to think in terms of #AutisticInertia

Supposedly we #ActuallyAutistic people thrive on #Structure and #Routine. I beg to differ.

I find that if there's too much structure in the day, meaning "this thing at 10, this thing at 2, this thing at 5, and by the way, food has to be consumed, eaten, and dishes washed," I get VERY stressed and resentful. I feel trapped.

This could be where I verge into #ADHD or #AutADHD territory. Or maybe it's #AutisticInertia .

What's it like for everyone else? @actuallyautistic

Moi, en train de me motiver a faire quelque chose de productif de ma vie, quand j'ai un seul rdv dans la journée, et qu'il n'est pas avant la fin de l'après-midi.
#AutisticInertia
#TaskFreeze
#Memecredi – à Port de Fontvielle

ive been wondering why #autisticinertia is so widely known and talked about in the #actuallyautistic community, but virtually unknown in autism research

And I think the answer might actually be simple: It doesn't affect them.

Inertia often means that you can't do a thing without something external giving you the final push. Sometimes when Im stuck, someone simply telling me to "get up" can help

Earlier I wanted to go to my room, but I couldn't leave the couch. I was trying, but I couldnt, like I was waiting for something without knowing what for.
My mom was watching TV, and at some point, there was a countdown. I somehow decided that, at 0, I would get up. And it worked! I had told my brain I wanted to get up, it was asking "when?" and I needed this external thing to give the answer.

But autism research isn't about helping *us*. Its about making us convenient and less of a "burden".
Autistic inertia only disables *us*, bc other ppl can get us out of it. So it doesn't affect them.