Being autistic is a trip sometimes.
Yesterday I started drawing, and the next thing I knew, I hadn’t eaten, and I had a headache that made my eyes hurt.
I never intentionally do it, but it seems to happen a lot when I’m stressed or working on something I’m really into.
Lately I’ve been trying to take time off at the appropriate intervals to cut down on fatigue, which can be a swing and a miss from time to time. It’s a goal, not a guarantee, after all. Sometimes I don’t succeed.
The worst example I can think of that shows this goes all the way back to high school. I drew a mural on my wall and didn’t eat or anywhere for, like, 72 hours.
Do you do this? What do you do to stop it? Timers? Alarms?
