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            1. it turns out if you quit your job to make stuff by yourself at home and also have a relapse of your fatigue condition that stops you from going far from your home, and are also me, you spend a bit too much time online and your brain starts going a little soft around the edges.
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            i keep watching tv shows for like... 20 minutes and getting bored and turning them off. but i am bad at resting if i don't have a distraction, so i keep trying. Online is not really the restful thing i need, but it's just there.
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          a particular type of sci-fi/fantasy book is good at sucking me in and keeping me going - but my compulsive behaviour is even worse with those, i will typically just lose time until they spit me out the other end.
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        i could easily become obsessed with work, because it's fascinating and i care a lot about it and right now i am very driven. but see above about the fatigue condition. my body likes to make it very obvious for me and will give me a headache if i go too hard.
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      "touching grass" is absolutely the answer i need emotionally, and i'm trying. building up my strength slowly. yesterday i got to the park and back without having a rest on a bench halfway! (it helped that it was tipping down. it felt glorious to be in the rain)
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    anyway, i'm doing okay, just... trying to mitigate that feeling i have felt before, where you spend so long in a shared fiction your sense of reality starts to delaminate a bit. luckily i have felt it before and know how to deal with it without, like, getting sucked into a cult.