Quiz about knowing myself (part III)

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If you suddenly had an extra room in your house, what would you do with it?
I would make numb3r_5ev3n and I a craft room with lots of shelves and ventilation and a closet for her fabric creations. If she separated out the craft supplies from the rest of her stuff, she could have more room to arrange her room the way she likes it. I could have a small craft table with non-glare lighting to do beadwork and knitting at, situated somewhere not under a vent. Maybe we could eventually afford one of those giant magnifying glasses on a swing arm. Hella useful.

What people and activities energize you? Make you feel depleted?
I don't have anyone who makes me energized, but I have a small handful of energy-neutral people whom I do not feel like I have to impress or be a particular thing for. I have some people who take up my social spoons at a discounted rate because of how easy it is to communicate with them. And then I have various levels of the normal rate of spoon depletion for doing things and interacting with people. Reading is relatively energy neutral, which is why I do so much of it. Unless I have a terrible headache and can't concentrate, it is the least energy-expensive thing I can do while remaining conscious.

Things which are especially tedious and make me tired faster than they seem like they should: driving (25 minutes of driving is as tiring as doing an hour of massage), watching movies that have a lot going on (I need 15 - 20 minutes of decompression space for my brain to rest before I can talk about it now), dancing (I can dance with a moderate level of butt shaking for two minutes and then I need to lie down). Being in noisy environments or having to focus past chaotic audio landscapes to understand someone takes a lot more of a toll than it used to also, so dancing, clubbing, action movies in the theater, etc. are all much more expensive than they used to be.

Is it hard for you to get rid of things that you no longer need or want?
No. I like giving things away, and I don't mind donating things to charity if that's what it takes to be rid of something. I work now on not buying things I don't need or won't want for more than a few days so that I can stop that cycle on the front end and save the money for more important spoon-saving measures.

On a typical night, what time do you go to bed? How many hours of sleep do you get?
I go to bed basically as soon as I get home and I mostly read or get up intermittently to do chores until about 11 or 12. I usually fall asleep by 1 AM. I wake up between 10 AM and 11 when my alarm goes off. So I guess my average is 9 1/2 hours a night. As long as I get seven hours of restful sleep I am fine the next day, but less sleep than that or less than restful sleep and I will suffer for it the next day. Usually in poor concentration, but sometimes also with higher than average physical pain. So you can imagine how scrupulous I am about getting as much high quality sleep as I can.

If at the end of the year, you had accomplished one thing, what is the one accomplishment that would make the biggest difference to your happiness?
Of the possible things that could happen, I think I would publish a book, hopefully a successful one, either on how to perform human interaction for autistics, or on how to navigate environments of uncertainty and still be a secure person. Because I need to have a backup plan and income that doesn't come from massage in case I can't keep this up forever.

Is there an activity that you love to do–yet somehow never seem actually to do it?
There are all kinds of things that I used to love, that I no longer do because doing them requires slogging through the emotional toll of feeling betrayed by my body. It kind of sucks the fun out. I should go to the library for books more than I do because I love and miss the library, but instead I live on a steady diet of fanfiction, because fic is cheap, plentiful, accessible via the phone that lives in my hand, and easy to return if I don't like it. But maybe I'll go to the library this weekend.