I sort of tick off accomplishments in my mind, as I go through the day.
• I'm up (not awake, but sort of vertical)
• Tablets taken, in juice (daily dose of Vitamin C)
• Coffee
• 2nd coffee
• Get dressed (can't rush these things)
• Assigned activity for the day
• Lunch
• Rest
• Afternoon cuppa and snack
• Rest
• Prepare evening meal and eat
• Take night time tabs in juice again.
• Have wash, or shower, and prepare for bed.
This is regular routine, with the occasional deviation. Any anomalies get noted on the whiteboard or calendar.
The older one gets, the more one's short term memory short circuits. Anything out of the ordinary...Bzzzzt, it's gone. #ActuallyAutisticElder
Possible #AuDHDer @actuallyautistic

Hello. I am an #ActuallyAutisticElder self-realised in 2022. I am 71 this year, and my siblings are sceptical. I have had almost 6 decades to mask my Autism, so it isn't surprising that they don't believe me. @actuallyautistic is a welcoming place
You can use #AskingAutistics or just the #ActuallyAutistic tag to find us.

@fergus.oolong.co.uk I have seen 'syndrome' used, too. Disorder is actually a better term than others. Less pathologising, imo. We are not ordinary. Our brains are wired differently to so-called norms.
We need to explore those differences, and dispel the myths around them. #ActuallyAutisticElder

We are the 'appeasers'. We will not be met halfway.🙁
#ActuallyAutisticElder who is tired of masking.

Actually, I am an ally to all who are bullied, whatever their vulnerability. I am an #ActuallyAutisticElder who has been staunchly anti-bully all my life...no doubt partly because of being bullied. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

In that the internet, and social media in particular, facilitated the coming together of #ActuallyAutistic people, both officially diagnosed, and self-diagnosed, it could be described as an internet phenomenon. Not a huge number of people claiming autism to be 'interesting' or to excuse bad behaviour - that claim comes from TERFs, and Ableists.
ADHD, ADD, & Bipolar, are far more acceptable, because they can be treated with drugs. Neurodivergence in the form of Aspergers, is acceptable to Allists because of their prejudices.
Self-realisation harms no-one. Denial of one's differing needs harms the autist.
These are my opinions, garnered from research, and our Autistic Community here on Mastodon. I am a self-realised #ActuallyAutisticElder