Blindboy

Like, do I have one of those lights in my office?

Do I?

Fuck.

I had to have a manual light switch installed in my office because I can't stay still.

and consistently stimming, moving my fingers, moving my legs, getting up, walking around, non-stop movement, which meant that my light was on all day long because I kept waking it up and I had to get a manual light switch installed and then a soft light in my office so that the bright lights wouldn't overstimulate me and it wasn't easy getting that light either.

When I went to the company that owned the building and I'm like, I'm autistic, I need to have a fucking light switch.

They were like, fuck off.

So then I had to threaten them with the Employment Equality Act of 1998, which is what you can do if you are an autistic, if you're diagnosed autistic or neurodivergent and something in your workplace is overstimulating you and fucking with your capacity to do work.

Your employer is, they're obligated to do what's called a reasonable accommodation and that's under the Employment Equality Act.

But I'm consistently moving, consistently flicking my fingers, stimming a way to, that's how I relax, that's how I feel normal.

Some neurotypical people obviously they just don't need that.

As I can observe in my office they can just sit still for hours at their computer so still that they don't turn on a sensory light.

But for me I gotta move all the time.

Which means rest can be difficult.

Just like having a nap sitting down that can be difficult unless I induce full-on meditation.

But when I wear that weighted blanket

It's whatever about the pressure, the pressure of it all over my body, whatever the fuck it does, it takes about 10 minutes to kick in.

It appears to soothe the part of my brain that wants to move.

It appears to soothe that.

And I'm able to sit comfortably with stillness, with not moving, with not needing to move, with just being fucking still.