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What is Stimming?

Neurodiverse Journey

#that autism life

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This ask is brought to you by Taylor Swift (much apologies), but do you know the nevertell about albatross soup?

I haven't heard of that one. But I'd love to learn.

#camp games #camp asks

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I try really hard not to judge parents because children can be a challenge, but also, I don't think it's fair to ask your AuDHD 7 year old to remember her own meds in the morning.

#parents

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Sometimes I listen to psychology audiobooks and I get to listen to winning sentences like this:

What are you going to do with your cortex today?

#trail.mixed.adulting

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Every so often, I look at my parent's council's open positions when they float across my LinkedIn feed.

Shoutout to the council for trying to recruit for a FT, exempt position at 35k/year. That's just... not gonna work.

#full-time girl scout

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come faster summer camp. what do you mean i still have to wait 2 more months

#camp #i love camp

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I can tell how not ok I am by the amount of disordered thoughts in my brain, bouncing around like little time bombs, and they're just everywhere this week. Last week I was physically ill, this week I'm (more) mentally ill.

Guess we found my limit.

#trail.mixed.adulting

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To all the girls I met at camp and never saw again ❤️ perhaps we'll meet again in another life

#camp

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Ok, so I'm processing my work trip this past weekend, and I've come to the conclusion that, while it is a pain in my routines and personal life management, travel programs are ultimately the right move for many areas. I served a lot of kiddos on my trip, met and connected with many volunteers, and really got a feel of the service units, troops, and members that I serve. I feel it was well worth the resources we used.

I would actually be good to travel more frequently. Initially we had planned for two program weekends a year in this area, but this is the only one we've done this year. I feel like my hands are tied in advocating for these areas, because I feel like me and M are backing up the volunteers against the leadership of council, and we are pissing them off. The tension is palpable every time this area is mentioned in staff meetings.

The emphasis right now, for these outlying areas, is to have partners run the programs. This is all well and good, but there's something to be said for staff and council-led programming. There's also a lack of potential partners in the area, to compound the issues associated with "just run more partner programs."

Overall, it was a worthwhile trip. Now to convince the powers that be that it's worth doing it again.

#full-time girl scout

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It's Tuesday morning and I can already tell that I over-scheduled my week off and I'm gonna be exhausted just in time to go back to work.

#trail.mixed.adulting

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Ok, so I was on my work trip, and I had the same program twice (Fri night and Sat morning) and had to (of course) reuse supplies, and I'd been thinking for weeks, ok, when I get to the hotel, I need to charge the robots overnight.

Guess what I woke up in a cold sweat at 2 am having forgotten to do?

#full time girl scout #stem activities

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Pro-tip: if you have close to 10k photos on your phone, it takes a while to transfer them all.

#trail.mixed.adulting

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Trying to have patience and understanding for the verizon store manager today. Not quite succeeding.

#trail.mixed.adulting

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I wanna shoutout to the book I just read, the wildest three hour audiobook I have listened to, about a write who wanted to thank everyone who made his cup of coffee and ended up visiting:

his everyday coffee shop a coffee warehouse the trucking company NYC's reservoirs the creators of the coffee cup lids and sleeves a coffee farm (of course)

Anyway, it was wild to hear his journey of who goes into making a cup of coffee, as well as his commentary. Slightly unhinged concept, decent execution.

#trail.mixed.adulting

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Pretty much every reason to work at camp is valid. Want to teach in an outdoor environment? Sure. What to improve real life communication and job skills? Yes. Want to just have a fun summer outside with friends? Also valid.

The only wrong reasons to work at camp are if you want to have power over others in some way, because that's not ok. But there's hundreds of great reasons!

#camp counselor #working at camp

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Gonna give you a picture of my weekend from about 9:30 am Friday to 7:30 pm Saturday:

9 hours of driving (2 different cars)

8 hours of program with children

7 hours of sleep (probably less)

2 hours of prep and take down

1.5 hours meeting a new volunteer

All combined to make a work trip in true Girl Scout fashion.

#full-time girl scout

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GIRLS!!!!!! gather roung. we are looking at this pillbug

#camp counselor #working at camp #nature