I'm autistic. I struggle to perform the most basic of tasks I'm unfamiliar with without strict, precise instructions. I'm non-verbal unless I'm forced to speak. (I honestly hate talking as a form of communication, worst invention ever.)
As a side-effect to being autistic, I have an extreme sensitivity to light. I go out of my way to "Dark-Mode" everything, which helps immensely. I have to wear prescription sunglasses in most retail-lighting environments and on sunny days, or I'm just an absolute mole getting nausious, headaches, and dizziness. I wear my prescription sunglasses indoors at my current job, and customers constantly refer to me as "looking like the unibomber" because they don't know about or understand my disability. Fun times...
Diagnosed with A.D.H.D. back in 1994, back when austsm was commonly being misdiagnosed and written-off as A.D.D. and A.D.H.D. But I have symptoms of both Autism and A.D.H.D.
I am an ultra-lite sleeper, meaning I need darknessand silence to stay asleep ((with a fan, more on that later)).
As a result of this, I need to stay up long enough, to get tired enough, to sleep DEEP enough in order to get any kind of measurable rest. My ideal day would be 36 hours long, fuck this 24 hour bullshit. I also can't stand being awake during normal daytime hours. I sleep in the morning into the early evening, and stay up all night. Fixed sleep schedules also don't work with me though, I just try to sleep whenever I'm tired. Works better for me.
In 1994, I was on a trip to Disney Land. We flew to L.A. from PDX (Portland, Oregon). On the flight however, my left eardrum popped due to the cabin pressure and altitude change. My ear was bleeding. I was deaf in that ear for a couple of weeks. And as a long-term result of that incident, I have been a tinnitus sufferer ever since (Intense high-pitched ringing in the ear, sounds like the coil whine of a CRT television). Working in a noisy spray booth in 2005 only made my hearing loss worse, despite wearing my earplugs.
I'm getting older which means my body is starting to tell me it no longer likes certain things. I believe I've developed an intolerance to lactose, as it makes me instandly gassy afterwards. The A2 milk is what I have to use in order to curb that, as it's real milk just they remove a protein in it that causes the indigestion. Tastes no different than regular milk, so I like it.
Dyscalculia. I cannot for the life of me understand math beyond the basic stuff we use day to day, but even then I struggle with simple math at times. It's one of my biggest roadblocks when learning to program, and it sucks. Google dyscalculia if you don't know what it is, it's kind of a rabbit hole of symptoms.
I'm somewhat dyslexic, but more-so when I'm typing than when I'm reading or writing.
My lower back was destroyed by working at Wal*Mart. I used to work at Walmart from 2013 to late 2020. I was on the freight team for a year and a half, and every night we would get a frozen+dairy load. The frozen pallet would get wheeled into the freezer just fine. But when it came to the dairy palled, whoo-boy... Whatever moron designed the dairy cooler ordered a door that's just slightly too small to easily wheel the palled inside, so we always had to park it in front of the open door, and manually down-stack it inside. But my boss was a "get it done now, and fast" kind of guy, so we'd setup a "grab something and hand it to the next guy" system. Problem with this was you're lifting heavy stuff, and twisting back and forth for about 10 to 12 minutes, every day. I did that for a year and a half. That is what destroyed my lower back.
I can't stand having rooms of my house be total darkness. I always have some kind of LED lighting on in empty rooms, be it the bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, etc etc. I just don't like walking into rooms where I could potentially bump into something and injure myself.
So yeah... Guess I got alot going on, lol.