Grunking but babe, same.
ActuallyAuDI went to Butlins, a 2 hour drive away with my kids (actually single muvva too) and needed 3 fucken days to recover from it.
Exactly! Imagine, travelling to the the other end of the country the day after you get home from a 4+ day trip to another country (for which you were allegedly “whisked away”, and that phrasing implies no involvement in the planning of said trip which I wouldn’t be happy with in the first place), to then give a ‘professional’ talk in front of an in-person audience and simultaneous livestream … just not happening. And then, good grief, going to an awards show and dinner on top of it. Nope, very nope. Yes all autistic people are different, but difficulty with change and transitions is a pretty key barrier the condition leads to. So all this sudden holidaying and WORK TRAVEL and now a big dinner in a sensory nightmare environment, all in one go, is further fuel for the theory that she’s been talking out of her arse.
(Nice one for managing all that for your holiday
your kids will have a great memory to share, even though they’ll have no idea how much it wrecked you
I aim to be able to do stuff like that when my youngest is old enough, but am nowhere near being able to handle it yet, cos small toddlers are the worst. And the best. But yeah very much the worst.)