Matt Vestengen-Cox
@matt@oslo.town
Self-facilitating media node and the brain behind oslo.town! 🧠 You may have chosen to or been forced to use something that I have designed. 🧑💻
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Vickie Gray 🍁
@graymattergrcltd@infosec.exchange
Vickie Gray, retired from IT. Posting photos of flowers, greyhounds, gardening. Play bagpipes. Might start painting again. I’ve been told I’m pragmatic and wise but I’m probably just exhausted and too old to worry whether people will like me if I say what I think. Canadian to my bones, Scottish to my soul. AuDHD, one of the “Lost Ones”. Content is 100% GenOI - generated by organic intelligence, one feeling, sense, thought, and representative word at a time. Awkward, often weird, but always trying to be compassionate.
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One day before an assessment of my bagpipe performance skills and theory knowledge (a prerequisite for teaching certification) and I am going full-on AuDHD.
PDA
Rehearsing failure
Mono-focusing
Being grumpy and annoyed at my utterly innocent and thoughtful partner for things I normally love him for.
Shallow breathing, upset stomach, hyper-arousal of all senses (tried to eat one of my favourite meals today and the smell of the pre-cooked ingredients made me almost vomit), inability to relax…
I want it to be over NOW.
Then after the exam, I’ll be fine, I will miss the hyper-focus time, I will start thinking about what I can do NEXT that will be complex, intense, and challenging, and I will be full of energy.
Did I mention this is the last commitment I made before having a silent heart attack? I have declared my retirement, started the admin to close my business, and I don’t know if I will actually want to teach.
But I have been working toward this milestone for 2.5 years, through medical diagnoses, business insanity, and the *waves hands* state of the world. I just want to get it finished and be able to say I saw it through and did my best. It’s honestly the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Bagpipes are the most bonkers complex instrument to learn to play if you actually want to learn all about them.
So when I’m done, tomorrow at noon my time, I’m gonna be pretty pleased with myself. And exhausted. And feeling free for the first time in decades.
But right now I’m just not fun to be around. Especially to myself. Ugh.
Kudos to all my neurokin for finishing really difficult things you start.
#AuDHD
#ActuallyAutistic
#Bagpipes
#Music
Yvonne Perkins
@perkinsy@aus.social
Writer (technical writing, blogging at stumblingpast.com), digital history, owner of #OfficeKitty (see profile pic). Enjoys gardening in #Melbourne #Australia Interests: #GardeningAU #StreetGardening, #OfficeKitty, #OzHist #DigitalHumanities #documentation #WriteTheDocs, watching cricket, #Bahai. Banner pic: Light fog with glorious sun rays shining through and lighting up trees. Profile pic: Our cat sniffing flowers in a vase
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It is packed at Fed Square for the Great Melbourne Bagpipe Bash. They are trying to get the world record for the number of bagpipers playing AC/DC 'It's a long way to the top'.
#Melbourne #Bagpipes #ACDC
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