spin-off

reposted from my new 10-things blog:

A while ago my mother told me about some guy she heard on the radio who used to be incredibly indecisive until he started writing two lists every day of things he liked and didn't like. She was suggesting I might like to try this. I did briefly on my first blog, since it wasn't anonymous and I didn't want to write anything at all revealing, but it was hard so I gave up pretty quickly. I've been thinking about trying it again recently because one of the big things that has come up in therapy is how bad I am at identifying how I feel about anything. I read "Somebody, Somewhere" a while ago, which is an autobiography by an autistic woman and was somewhat horrified to find I could very easily identify with her being completely unable to tell if she wanted something or not without testing to see if she smiled when she said "Donna wants X". It would also be nice to get into the habit of writing something every day, even though lists aren't very interesting. I was going to procrastinate on this as usual, but I was thinking of writing about this first list anyway so I figured I'd just put it here. We'll see how long this lasts, this time.