Aspies For Freedom

...and the living is easy. A bit too much so for my liking at the moment.

I've been working on my social skills following my diagnosis, and I'm sure I've made significant progress already, but summer is presenting me with some new issues.

I've just finished university, so until I find work (getting there, I'm sure, eventually) I'm bone idle for most of the day. I've improved on my planning, but for now, I can only seem to find ways to occupy the night. The lack of daytime activities is starting to get annoying.

The main trouble with summer where I live is the heat. It's regularly in the 30s (celsius, of course) and the humidity seems to make it worse. It makes certain activities unattractive (walking for instance), and it only seems to make you more apathetic.

There's one obvious place to go, and that is hitting the beaches, which I'm thinking of starting to go to more regularly, but I'm short of other ideas. I'd like to hear from others who live in similar climates.

I guess one other problem of mine is that my planning skills aren't too good yet, and I'm still unsure whether or not my own ideas are always reasonable. Though maybe I'll hold this discussion for another time.

Hope your summers will be great.

You could try finding a volunteer job. That'd be less pressure, fewer hours, and less risk of sunburn.

I've ordered a massive pile of books for the summer on my special interest. I'm gonna combine that with the beach.

I'm gonna end up spending the rest of my summer, either tinkering with my computer, playing really old video games (Sega Genesis era), playing Guitar hero, reading, or just sitting around the house, I think.  Then in the fall, I start day and night school...

The summers here are hot and humid too and some of the better places to go to during the day are shopping centres and the library because they are air-conditioned. The library would be less crowded and noisy if you have sensory issues.

Being on the beach leaves you too vulnerable to getting sunburnt but is fine during the cooler times of the early morning and late afternoon.