We fell back to Standard Time at 2:00am on Sunday & while most adults love getting an extra hour of sleep, I sure don't because losing Daylight Savings Time causes me so much misery. In fact, it's a day that I dread every single year. That may sound extreme, but it's true. The reason why I dread it? The time the sun sets. Where I live, Saturday night’s sunset was at 5:36pm & Sunday night, it was at 4:35pm. The earliest sunset of the entire year is 4:14pm. That's just plain depressing. While I've lived in Massachusetts my whole life, interestingly, my happiness has always been dependent on how late it stays light out. So, the long, cold winter nights are understandably detrimental to my mental health. Difficulty adjusting to change can make both springing forward to Daylight Savings Time & falling back to Standard Time incredibly stressful for autistic people, but for me, it's only falling back that I struggle with. This is because I just LOVE springing forward to Daylight Savings Time. That extra hour of daylight at the end of the day brings me so much happiness & when I view a change as positive, I'm all for it! It's the negative changes that I struggle with. In fact, I don’t start accepting the fact that we're in Standard Time until the end of February because that's when the sun sets at a much more reasonable hour. The end of February is almost three months away. Plus, once I fully adjust to & accept Standard Time, springing forward is just a few short weeks away (one of my favorite days of the year). It taking that long to adjust to an hour time difference is not okay. When the sunset slowly gets earlier & earlier by a minute or two at a time each day, that's okay because the change is so small. The sun setting an hour earlier is a huge shock to my system because that is a big jump & that is why that is a struggle for me. And yes, I am all for making Daylight Savings Time a year round thing, like they keep talking about. Now, is it March yet? ☀️
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Happy Halloween! Well, maybe it's a Happy Halloween to you, but it's not for me. I've never liked this haunting holiday. So, there. I've come out & said it. I don't like Halloween! Now, having said that, if you're a Halloween-loving person, that's no biggie. In fact, one of my closest friends has a Halloween birthday & I just love her excitement around this frightful day. But, for me, Halloween just isn't my day. And that's okay, too. This Is Why:
I don't dislike everything about Halloween, so this is what I do like about the holiday:
Halloween Challenges For Autistic People:
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