Notices by Tim McTuffty (tim_mctuffty@beige.party)

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 769 , Friday 05/12/2025

Friday started at a much more reasonable time of 07:30 which would have been a blessing if I had managed to get anything like a decent nights sleep. But the night was disturbed both by an utter inability to fall asleep & the cries of one of the children next door which went on for ages in the early hours of the morning.

The morning was spent perusing various tasks with my head all over the place.

I have finally got confirmation that we will have a new boiler fitted next Wednesday, so I can rest easy until Wednesday morning when hopefully I won’t have to chase this on the day!

Mrs S has been beavering away thru her mums paperwork to track down the critical papers necessary for the current circumstances.

This afternoon we chilled out & caught up on some of TV shows & treated ourselves to our usual Friday takeaway despite the cold!

Final Thoughts.

I am tired to my bones, but I think that things have moved forward satisfactorily today & I hope that that will allow me to sleep tonight!

Another busy day tomorrow, we’re off on a mission to start brining some order to my MiLs house now that she is gone. We’re also planning a last pre-Christmas trip to Costco™ & possibly get some other shopping in on our way home.

It will be nice to be in a house with the heating on, if only for a short while!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@autistics
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

@HistoPol Have a good time then mate, safe travels and don't forget us! 😊

@HistoPol Awww - thanks! 😊

Thanks, but I hope you will be around for the festive season mon ami!

@HistoPol Hey HP 👋😊

Great to see you back on my TL 😊

Yep still here boring everyone to bits! 😁

Hope you had a good weekend & that the coming week treats you well my friend! 😊🫶:party_major_squirrel:🖖

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 757 , Sunday 23/11/2025

Sunday has been a much more relaxed day although the weather has been classic British late autumn - cold n 'orrible!

Had a nice lie in until 8am, but a had a really rough night so I was still tired.
Got downstairs and made us breakfast & did a couple of chores.

We went on a foraging run to Costco™ late this morning, got some goodies but mostly essentials.

We got home in time for a late luch - chicken sarnies with a spring roll each from last nights takeaway.

A mostly relaxed afternoon, we caught up on a couple of Mrs S's tv shows then I decide that I would take an hour out to fit the new smart network switch - well done NetGear for making it so easy ... not! - the quote from the Hitch Hikers Guide comes to mind - you know the one about the plans being in a locked filing cabinet in the basement!

Once I tracked down the correct instructions things went a lot more smoothly - the switch is now installed, I'll tweak it & the router over the next week or so to get the performance right.

I’m impressed the WiFi signal is really quite good in the main parts of the house - I need to check in the garage as that's the most remote part, but there isn't much need for a good signal in there anyway.

We had cottage pie for tea, with some of my secret recipe gravy & then Bakewell pudding & custard for pudding - very nice!

We ended the day with an episode of Poirot & me trying to figure out how to get the main house phone downstairs again with the cables to hand.

Final Thoughts.

Not a bad day - Costco was insanely busy so no doubt there will be some blow back from that on my energy levels tomorrow.
Will need to work on getting the floor back down in Mrs S's study tomorrow.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

@HistoPol You need to have a word in your Admin's shell-like & ask them to kindly add it to their custom emojis my friend

@HistoPol G’day HP 👋😊

Sorry for the late reply, thanks so much - my back is slowly coming around & other issues are in hand (as it were!).

I hope that you are having a really good weekend my friend! 😊🫶:party_major_squirrel:🖖

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 727 , Friday 24/10/2025

What a day!
It's ended with me twisting my body into new & different shapes to fix a leak
In the boiler's condensate drain system - not overly complicated (thankfully) but in a super awkward position.
My back is hating me in new & far more masochistic ways!

Final Thoughts.

If I’m forced to take pain killers later then I will have to address the fact that I have not had a fully functional drain system myself for 3 days - as Scotty would say "She cannae take na more Capt'n!".

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 686 , Saturday 13/09/2025

Saturday started around 7am.

Just a day like any other although we did start a Downton fest today, with a view to ending it in a few weeks time with the last of the Downton movies that has just been released.

Fried chicken & chips for tea, more because it is part of our routine than any actual desire for it, can't spoil Mrs S's expectations can we.

Final Thoughts.

With the BBC reckoning to want to appease Remorse's neo-fascist followers, & thousands of RW protesters taking to the streets of London, with the Met police conveniently turning off their facial recognition systems in case they catch someone embarrassing, I do wonder what the point is anymore.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

Diary of an AuDHD Squirrel. Day 532 , Saturday 12/04/2025

Up at around 7am, but struggled to get going so faintly got down to breakfast ½ an hour later.

Chores done & read a little before spending some time on here.

10:33 Oh Nuggan’s holey nuts! For some reason my brain is arguing strenuously against going outside again, even into the garden… I think it’s because there is a high risk that I might have to interact with the neighbours. 🙄🤦♂️
I know that the weather is going to turn tomorrow & that there is stuff to do but nope going thru either door into the outside world seems like fighting thru treacle!

So I mooched about the house for an hour then gave myself a sharp talking too & went into the garden for an hour, tided up the gravel that over spilled when the big clean was going on.

Also planted a few reeds that still seemed viable & re-strung the washing line.
Go team Squirrel!!

Mrs S got back around 1pm, why she thought we needed even more ready meals after I went out shopping mid week is beyond me!

But all the MH peeps I speak to reckon it’s my ND mind that is wrong & that I should just accept this kind of thing. *sigh*

I went wild & got the 4k remastered version of ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ & we watched it this evening. They have made an excellent job of the remastering & I have to admit that I do love that movie!

Final Thoughts.

I’m kinda chuffed that I fought my lethargy & got out into the garden, even if only for an hour but it would be nice if It wasn’t such a struggle all the time.

Day by day until the last day I guess.

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@actuallyautistic
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

@UnclePJ @actuallyautistic Evening PJ 👋😊

Hope Aunty PJ’s hand heals soon!

I can’t bake to save my life - I have ½ the attention span of a gnat! Good luck with your efforts!

I know! I had a choc urge though & so the cookies won the ‘either or’ contest!

Next time there could well be catering levels of nuts!

😊🫶🐿️🖖

@UnclePJ @actuallyautistic Morning PJ 👋😊

Ooooh that sounds painful, hope it heals as quickly as possible!

I simply get distracted far too easily to bake - & have no sense of time so things carbonise very easily in our kitchen if I cook!

Thanks 😆

Hope you have a decent day today my friend 😊🫶:party_major_squirrel:🖖

@UnclePJ @actuallyautistic Kitties are patted & have gone for midday constitutional!

Yeah but I’ll start playing a game & look up - 10 minutes to go loads of time!
Timer goes off, “Ah I’ll just finish this one thing”
Smoke alarm goes off - “bugger! “

Thanks 😊

@UnclePJ @actuallyautistic Ok so folk like me with autism/ ADHD etc are covered by the umbrella term of neurodivergent (ND) - ie our brains are wired differently to everyone else who are covered by the term NT (neuro typical).

One of the things that happens with ND folk is that we get hyper focused on things so that we are compelled to complete them. The fact that an outside stimulus - a timer going off, our partners yelling at us to do x/y/z or indeed a 3 minute warning going off - is not sufficient to break that compulsion.
One might say that we are incapable of responding to the alarm if out attention is otherwise engaged.

I also have no sense of time passing & am really not good at estimating how long a task will take.
Also - very much in line with me being a squirrel am easily distracted if not already tied up in a hyper focus event, so that even if I do respond to the timer then if something distracts me en-route, say I see that the cat has thrown up or that the soap dispenser is empty, or thousand other things then that will draw my attention away & the timer will be forgotten (this has happened countless times).

I hope this helps, it’s a hard concept to get across, people like Robert Kennedy & the orange oaf think we just need 4 years on a wellness farm to put us right - it won’t, we were born like this & develop strategies to mask our differences so that we better fit into the NT world - some of us get very good at that so we appear to be the same as everyone else, just a little weird. It took 56 years to catch me out- & that’s only because I sought an answer to why I was different.

If you’re interested in the core ways autistic folk can be different then do a DDG search on “Triad of impairments” which splits the most common ways autistic folk differ into 3 distinct areas. To be formally diagnosed one has to exhibit behaviours in each of the areas of the triad.

😊🫶:party_major_squirrel:🖖

Diary of an ASD Squirrel. Day 490 , Saturday 01/03/2025

Saturday & indeed the month of March started around 07:30 when Mrs S got up.

I wandered downstairs & made us some breakfast.

It’s been a very quiet day.

No real news about my MiL, she doesn’t seem to be any worse which is a relief.

Played some more of ‘Ghost of Tsushima’ getting the hang of it now, if only I could remember all the key sequences for the special moves!

We had fried chicken for tea & caught up on a few TV shows we’re on with.

Final Thoughts.

A nice quiet day, tomorrow has a visit to Costco™ pencilled in, what fun!

Thank you to all those who are helping me on this journey, in a myriad different ways. I am thankful to each & every one of you! 🫂 🫶🐿️🖖

@actuallyautistic
#TimsASDjourney #ActuallyAutistic #Neurospicy #TheMammutMoves

@UnclePJ @actuallyautistic Thanks 😊

We go every 4 to 6 weeks depending on what we need. I’m not sure I could do it on a more regular basis!

Hope you have a great Sunday mate😊🫶🐿️🖖

@UnclePJ @actuallyautistic Hey PJ 👋😊

Mind you don’t get sunburn! 😆

Failed a little bit - got some dried melon pieces & some cookies by way of naughty snacks!

Needed some down time but am here now 😊

@UnclePJ @actuallyautistic Hey PJ 👋😊

I resisted the nut section on this occasion, might get a big tub next time though!

It was really warm in the car with the sun shining in, a bit cooler outside but I didn’t need a coat on, just a sweatshirt over my usual t-shirt.

Sun is too low in the sky for sunburn mate so you’re more likely just to get hypothermia - so no running around in your beach wear! 😆

Day wasn’t too bad at all thanks, hope you & Aunty PJ had a good day 😊🫶🐿️🖖

@UnclePJ @actuallyautistic Ah & here we hit the ND / NT membrane. 😊

@UnclePJ @actuallyautistic I was trying to subtly suggest the difference between the way we think. 😊