Garden snail enclosure / hopefully culture

[ChileanTaco]

Autism and ADHD lol The things constantly bouncing around and being juggled in my brain is just..

Can understand this so much
Me with autism (the hyperfocus well-planning type), husband likely with autism and ADHD (the "oh really, I should have gone to the grocery store?" type who easily does "half of the dishwashing" by washing only the pots and none of the lids, all of the forks but no knife).

Things my husband often says to me for fun: "Should I help you with assembling a fusion reactor this weekend?", "Up for a Goethe bust or Brandenburg Gate from modeling clay?"
Him exaggerating by making fun of exactly things similar to

So what has my brain been formulating the last few weeks? Well, I have copper scrap. Tin shouldn't be too hard to find. I can build a mini forge using..... lol It'd start as plans for a bracelet and turn into a lump of worked copper and tin with a "I tried" lol

(Real projects: Crafts, woodworking, things from found items on the beach. Or things for my dragon's enclosure where my husband was really not fond of in the beginning but now is Stuff more often than not works - think it's the same with you - but sometimes, yes. Then I try something different.)

But I do carry on cooking traditions of my ancestors and in the process express myself in the creation of my traditional foods. When I prepare these meals it's a very different feeling than just every day food. I make my own sauerkraut, I grow my own potatoes. But potatoes are more connected to my Blackfoot and Crow roots than any German connections even though they didn't grow potatoes.

I can relate very (!) much to that.
Also to that:

In addition to gathering supplies for farming I also gather wild plants, berries, roots etc... for cooking.

Also make a lot of food myself, to an amount others often assume I have allergies and I'm forced to - but no, I like doing so.
Foraging is something I enjoy very much, too.
The growing and gathering sadly doesn't work here, but wherever it worked, I did. Grew up with it, just felt life is that way (was so normal during my childhood: if X isn't growing, well, there is no X this year), and that's what I like to keep. And despite not feeling very German (which I am), there are certain recipes that are a must for me/ us. German bread (Bauernbrot, Roggenmischbrot), no sugar added, a must German Weihnachtsplätzchen, then sugar added, also.

Btw: I kept garden snails as a kid. Similar to this. But brought them back to the garden after a while as I only had one such enclosure and wanted to use it for something different (ground beetle larvae).

 

[xp29]

Autism and ADHD lol The things constantly bouncing around and being juggled in my brain is just.... It's a lot lol If I don't allow my brain to indulge in creation, it drowns in research which only feeds the need for more creation. Kiddo has a great mind for imagination / storytelling. My brain just doesn't work that way, it's more mechanical. He expresses himself through story, I create to express myself and tell a different kind of story.

As an autistic person I don't really have culture, I have ancestry. I don't identify as German like my father or Scottish as my mother or Blackfoot and Crow as my maternal Great great grandmother. I'm autistic. But I do carry on cooking traditions of my ancestors and in the process express myself in the creation of my traditional foods. When I prepare these meals it's a very different feeling than just every day food. I make my own sauerkraut, I grow my own potatoes. But potatoes are more connected to my Blackfoot and Crow roots than any German connections even though they didn't grow potatoes.

Yet my research on growing potatoes pre contact allows me to connect with my roots of hunting and gathering as I use locally available materials to test a hypothesis of trade with other local tribes. In addition to gathering supplies for farming I also gather wild plants, berries, roots etc... for cooking.

I don't get to tell fantasy stories. But I can alter reality

Good example: Our 19th anniversary was yesterday. We are not the traditional types, but the brain goes straight to what is the traditional gift. 19 is bronze which is strong and everlasting blah blah blah love something etc... lol

So what has my brain been formulating the last few weeks? Well, I have copper scrap. Tin shouldn't be too hard to find. I can build a mini forge using..... lol It'd start as plans for a bracelet and turn into a lump of worked copper and tin with a "I tried" lol

HAPPY 19TH!!!
I've wondered often if I'm autistic as well, but I've never been tested. I'm mechanical in the extreme but not artistic at all. But once I get an idea in my head no matter how simple or how outlandish it makes me bonkers till I act on it.
We have a similar heritage. I'm English on one side and Scottish on the other and American Indian from both sides. (Both sides of my family settled in the deep Appalachia very early and took Indian spouses) I've felt connected to the land my whole life. The petfect day for me even in my 50's is splashing through a creek somewhere, and if I can find a cool rock, mineral, or branch it's a great bonus. Finding minnows, snakes lizards , weird bugs , anything small and out of the ordinary makes it even better.
Not much garden growing here in Vegas but I do miss that to.

 

[ChileanTaco]

The petfect day for me even in my 50's is splashing through a creek somewhere, and if I can find a cool rock, mineral, or branch it's a great bonus. Finding minnows, snakes lizards , weird bugs , anything small and out of the ordinary makes it even better.

Absolutely, a big yes!
I could never imagine how being in a forest, being in nature can be boring (some people think so). Whenever I'm traveling (often for work) and I have half a day or a day off: I have looked up something before, where I can do just the above, and then clearly this is my "fun day". Whenever others (e.g. workmates) say they went to that bar or watched a movie on Netflix, I've instead been somewhere out in the woods, at a creek, but desert too. "Going to the beach" is also a bit different for me from what most people do - for me it's tide pools, shells, weird carapaces...
I remember once during a conference, I spotted there is a beautiful wild creek just below the conference venue. I was eating lunch quickly, and then went down there. That is a break for me - much better than the noisy lunch break situation.
And once, I was working at a research institute right in a forest, a bit outside of town (it was there as it was built around an old observatory). Lunch breaks, you could imagine... Or other kinds of break like waiting for code to finish or having a power outage...

I'm not in my 50's yet, but early 40's but I bet, my 50's I won't be different.

 

[ChileanTaco]

I've wondered often if I'm autistic as well, but I've never been tested.

Got tested as part of a study - the study sparked my interest, and I thought, okay, it's on campus, it's for free, why not? Otherwise I likely hadn't done it as not having problems so serious to require any kind of assistance or medication or therapy or...

I'm mechanical in the extreme but not artistic at all.

The "mechanical in the extreme" also describes me well.
I'm somewhat artistic when it goes into the direction of drawing, scalemodeling, crafts - but for sure not music, theater or such. And still, there I go into the "mechanical" direction. I like clear things with structure. So you'd rather find me writing a story plot for some "hard Sci-Fi" style story (where somebody solves a serious problem with physics, engineering, hacking... knowledge, and where of course the properties of a stellar system were based on calculations), than some "dreamy" story. And rather me building a cyberpunk diorama with all the lights, parts designed either in CAD or repurposed things found on the beach, using my imagination for how parts could fit together, than me making a "cute" elf hand puppet and using it or making a "romantic" painting.

 

[xp29]

Absolutely, a big yes!
I could never imagine how being in a forest, being in nature can be boring (some people think so). Whenever I'm traveling (often for work) and I have half a day or a day off: I have looked up something before, where I can do just the above, and then clearly this is my "fun day". Whenever others (e.g. workmates) say they went to that bar or watched a movie on Netflix, I've instead been somewhere out in the woods, at a creek, but desert too. "Going to the beach" is also a bit different for me from what most people do - for me it's tide pools, shells, weird carapaces...
I remember once during a conference, I spotted there is a beautiful wild creek just below the conference venue. I was eating lunch quickly, and then went down there. That is a break for me - much better than the noisy lunch break situation.
And once, I was working at a research institute right in a forest, a bit outside of town (it was there as it was built around an old observatory). Lunch breaks, you could imagine... Or other kinds of break like waiting for code to finish or having a power outage...

I'm not in my 50's yet, but early 40's but I bet, my 50's I won't be different.

We are who we are. I think it's perfectly fine to do what we enjoy regardless what others think about it. I love solitude, I live a very rat racy, high speed, hi stress life. I'm on the go all the time, I'm the go to man at work, I'm the guy that has to have all the answers all the time, I'm not trying to brag in the least but I am the backbone of the shop. I do by far most of the major diag, I rebuild 100% of the transmissions and even play swing man as needed on everything else. So when I can get out in nature and away from the crush of people I absolutely cherish that time. Anyone thats thinks that's weird, I say they are whats weird

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Autism doesn't really need an official diagnosis unless you're not doing well. Then it just puts it paper so you can get on waiting list for help you needed years before the official diagnosis was able to happen.

But, when we are in a good environment we thrive and don't have problems.

 

[ChileanTaco]

I think it's perfectly fine to do what we enjoy regardless what others think about it.

Absolutely I don't mind. And was the same as a kid - that's just me, and I don't have to like what others like.

I love solitude, I live a very rat racy, high speed, hi stress life. I'm on the go all the time, I'm the go to man at work, I'm the guy that has to have all the answers all the time, I'm not trying to brag in the least but I am the backbone of the shop. I do by far most of the major diag, I rebuild 100% of the transmissions and even play swing man as needed on everything else. So when I can get out in nature and away from the crush of people I absolutely cherish that time. Anyone thats thinks that's weird, I say they are whats weird

I'm quite similar. Somebody who often was told "hey, you do to much, rather watch a TV show on a couch" - ay, no! I'm always into something. (Here it's not transmission, but software, hardware, optotronics, and then also tech stuff for hobbies, and that book to read and this and ...)

But, when we are in a good environment we thrive and don't have problems.

For me it's luckily really like this, and no need for wait lists and help and things Luckily!
I could, for example, not imagine me working a "typical" job - if I would have to, then likely I would have to get help.

 

[xp29]

Autism doesn't really need an official diagnosis unless you're not doing well. Then it just puts it paper so you can get on waiting list for help you needed years before the official diagnosis was able to happen.

But, when we are in a good environment we thrive and don't have problems.

I have known folks with mild autism and a few children with severe autism. It can be not a big deal at all, or scarey debilitating. It's like cancer, it don't spare any one . No rhythm or reason.

 

[xp29]

Absolutely I don't mind. And was the same as a kid - that's just me, and I don't have to like what others like.

I'm quite similar. Somebody who often was told "hey, you do to much, rather watch a TV show on a couch" - ay, no! I'm always into something. (Here it's not transmission, but software, hardware, optotronics, and then also tech stuff for hobbies, and that book to read and this and ...)

For me it's luckily really like this, and no need for wait lists and help and things Luckily!
I could, for example, not imagine me working a "typical" job - if I would have to, then likely I would have to get help.

I agree about jobs. My job is stressful but ever changing. I thrive on that variety. I could never do factory work.

 

[ChileanTaco]

I could never do factory work.

This also, but I meant indeed more the "jobs with people".
Somebody being a waiter, or working at a hotel reception, or being a kindergarden teacher (or generally a teacher especially for young kids), or even the administrative assistant at work (how many phone calls she takes per day... and then accepting delivery, then having a chitchat with the cleaning lady (one should be nice!), then talking to a visitor... more calls) - it would stress me out that much. And no, I could not adjust with it over time.
Did coding and computer center "nightwatch" (= if something fails software or hardware, take care that it's up running in the morning at the very latest) as a student job, as the more usual like pizza delivery guy or reception or... just were absolutely not what I can do.
Factory would be boring, but any of the above would wear me out absolutely. I feel it even when just doing somewhat similar things for a short time: no way.

My job is stressful but ever changing. I thrive on that variety.

For me I would say: I for sure thrive also on variety, and I as an introvert need a quiet working environment where I can structure my work on my own. Not with customers, patients, guests or other people I have to understand and interpret quickly. Then also the "stressful" part feels like positive stress (positive stress = long working hours but with things I can do well and enjoy, o like the "nightwatch") instead of negative (negative stress = such as lots of people, indirect communication).

For this reason: I think it's good that different people are good at different things. And for this reason I would never see it as "bragging" if somebody just describes what they are good at - more, if it's something similar to where my strengths are I think "ah, somebody else also!", and if it's more of the opposite, I think "really impressing, I just could not do that half or a quarter or... as good as you!"

 

[BPSabelhaus]

It really comes down to different lifeway adaptations. We just are not equipped for the full time settlement lifeway of the last 13,000 or so years. 5 generations ago some of my ancestors were following the buffalo and negotiating with ancestors that had been settled for millennia. They also married, had children the children married others of mixed heritage and so on until my parents. Father of strictly Germanic heritage and Mother of long mixed indigenous and Scottish heritage.
I am a child of two worlds. Cultures still clash to this day. I know what I need neurologically for a lifeway, it's my mother's way. I am a hunter gatherer pastoralist. My job needs to have a lot of change, especially with the seasons, be quiet and mind provoking.

 

[xp29]

It really comes down to different lifeway adaptations. We just are not equipped for the full time settlement lifeway of the last 13,000 or so years. 5 generations ago some of my ancestors were following the buffalo and negotiating with ancestors that had been settled for millennia. They also married, had children the children married others of mixed heritage and so on until my parents. Father of strictly Germanic heritage and Mother of long mixed indigenous and Scottish heritage.
I am a child of two worlds. Cultures still clash to this day. I know what I need neurologically for a lifeway, it's my mother's way. I am a hunter gatherer pastoralist. My job needs to have a lot of change, especially with the seasons, be quiet and mind provoking.

I hadn't given it a lot of thought be seeing it written down, it kinda makes sense. I can even relate to the sentiment quite a bit. I've always been the , well not outsider really, but the guy in the family that no one gets. They are mostly grounded and rooted. I've always been the lets check out whats over the next hill type. (I meanbthay quite literally to) I'm eat up with wanderlust. I drove 750 miles yesterday to go check out some rocks lol.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Fresh corn growing on the cob.

 

[ChileanTaco]

Like this Reminds me of when I had crickets (as pets) and was growing wheat sprouts right in the enclosure.

 

[BPSabelhaus]

Yeah, walked into the garage after the lights were out and it's like "Oh, well then" lol They just kind of hug and make bubbles then go off and lay eggs. Hermaphroditic so they're basically just exchanging business cards and having a long conversation and handshake about combining assets. Boring stuff compared to Bettas with safe words lol "Ok ok! Enough biting. OW OW! GUPPY GUPPY!"

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Laying eggs, at least I think. I can't see the other large one but I assume it's doing the same somewhere. But after mating they dig a hole in soil to lay eggs.

Pretty sure it laid eggs. There's a nice deep divot where it was.

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