Thanks! Yeah, at the moment I'm kind of erring towards keeping the 4 day week a bit longer if I can, just concerned that it will make the workload unmanageable once term starts again (I mean, it technically shouldn't because my contract is only 4 days a week, so if there's too much to do that's evidence that they need to fund the positions for more than 0.8 FTE). Also my boss specifically applied for funding for me to do the 5th day as overtime so that I could do some other work for her, not long before I dropped down to 4 days, and I feel a bit bad for letting her down on that, I guess. Ah well, will just see what happens when I see OH again, I guess. And hope you escaped the toilet without having to interact with Unknown Agents!

Yeah, I seem to remember DSA paid for a year warranty, and I gather gluing them would void the warranty (if indeed there is one) - looks like I'll have to ask the place I got them from before doing anything, just in case.

(Also, I owe you a very long overdue email! Wrote it over the weekend but thought its contents were too stupid to actually send, will revisit in the next couple of days.)

Atypical is occurring. It's not as bad as in some other programmes, and the more overt bullying is treated critically, but there are still quite a lot of things that I think are quite cruel that haven't (yet) been treated in the same way.

Google told me to avoid glue, I wasn't sure how accurate that information was though. If I can't get back to the clinic this week I'll probably give it a go, though!

Wolpertinger: What song always makes you want to dance? - YMCA!

24: Are there any internalised ableist ideas that you struggle with? - Oh, absolutely. My parents were in denial for a very long time, and would always tell me there was nothing wrong with me/I was just making things up/I had to ‘get over’ my difficulties. Not only did this make me feel terrible about myself, but because I obviously had a lot of things in common with autistic people I heard/read/saw talking about themselves, I would kind of project those ideas onto them, as well. So because I thought I must be just making it up, exaggerating, etc, I would get angry at other autistic people for talking about their problems, as I assumed they were also exaggerating or making it up. Though I have a diagnosis now, and plenty of validation/confirmation, a big part of me is still somewhat in denial and angry at myself for the difficulties I have and not being able to simply ‘get over’ them, as well as jealous of other autistic people who seem to find it much easier to talk about their difficulties and openly describe them in terms of autism.

95: what are your plans for this weekend? - I currently have none, other than GET WORK DONE.