Time served · 22 Jun 2026
Member since August 2024
Fen
Flat land, flat weeks, steady progress.
Their journal
46 entries, and Fen is still writing.
Two years, read back
week 98grateful energy 22 replies
This week: Two years today. I have read this journal back from the start this evening and the person in March 2024 was so frightened, and nobody told her it would just…
No project
week 75settled energy 21 reply
The strange part is not having a project any more. I had not understood how much I was enjoying having one. Steady, short entries, no drama. Two years. My only news is that…
Iron and B12
week 53pleased energy 11 reply
Three years of results side by side. A trend rather than a moment, which is apparently the only thing worth looking at. Everything fine. Bloods back. Unremarkable, she said,…
Anchored to the shifts
week 41organised energy 32 replies
This week: New sharps bin, and a plan for what happens to it when I move in September. Batch cooked on a good day for the bad days. Six labelled boxes in the freezer and a…
I nearly did not write
week 40steady energy 23 replies
Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. Steady. That is the whole entry. Flat again. Good.
Milestones
Clinical · 17 Aug 2025
Told to come back in a year
Non-scale · 13 Apr 2025
A full day of work without the afternoon collapse
Conversations they started
The fortnight after the last dose
Coming off
What my podiatrist noticed
Type 2
Recent check-in answers
Said no to a family thing on Sunday and it went completely fine, which was not the disaster I had scheduled.
A colleague brought me a tea without being asked. Whole day improved.
What I would change: I would have asked about a slower schedule on day one.
Caught myself walking faster than the person in front of me. Small. Enormous.
Buddy
ongoingNeurodivergence
Routines, and what happens when the routine is the point
Both autistic, both wrecked by the change in interoception, and both relieved to find somebody who did not think that was a strange thing to be wrecked by.