#nospoonsonlyknives — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

Hey folks 👋

We'll try and keep this short, as we are running dangerous low on spoons, which is kinda the purpose of this announcement :MentalHealthFlagHeart:

As you likely already know, we are a non-binary, trans fem, disabled, neurodivergent (AuDHD) spoonie, who additionally struggles with major depression, requiring multiple meds daily in order to keep functioning at a full-time job :DisabilityPrideHeart:

Despite this, we have been pushing ourselves regularly beyond our limits, causing increasing tiredness and irritability, exacerbating many of our AuDHD traits, and leading to complete verbal shutdowns at times, as we so very much wanted to help as many people as we could :PleadingFaceWithRedHearts:

This has inevitably led to pretty-much complete burnout 🤦‍♀️

We'd already taken steps back in terms in terms of the amount and scale of support we were giving to people, as well as spending less time on fedi and other platforms, but it's not been enough 😞

As such, until further notice:

We won't be streaming on our Twitch channel and have deleted our schedule.
We won't offer private support about gender affirming hormone therapy, mental health, or anything else.
We will largely be invisible on Discord and will not be on fedi as much as we used to be.

Of course we feel guilty about this, but right now we need to put ourselves first, so that we can fully recover from this burnout, then take steps to reduce the risk of further recurrence.

We want to stress that we are stepping back, not stepping away, from everywhere and everyone.

We'll still be in contact with folks when we have spare spoons, and we'll still interact and post on fedi occasionally.

And we'll still be doing some helpful activities at work and behind the scenes that we can't discuss :TransHeart: ✊

But yeah: you won't see us as much, but it's because we're allowing ourselves to prioritise our own health and needs.

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