Don’t know how much you’re dying to know about my ASD updates, but I took for online ASD self tests today, and (drum roll please):
Test #1. RESULTS: I don’t know. After taking the test, they then, and only then, wanted let me know there was a fee to receive the results.
Thumbs down for them from this cheap S.O. …hmmm… can’t use the last letter… Oh! This takes me back. M.G. (son of a motherless goat. That takes me back to… Ohio days, I think!) 🙃
Test #2. RESULTS: Hmmmm… starting to see a pattern here. They want money, too. After you take the test. Sons of MGs.
Test #3. RESULTS: Finally! Drum roll please, 1 out of 30. I think their scale said you needed to be 14 or higher to be on have ASD.
Test #4. RESULTOS: 4 out of 30. Don’t remember what their number was, but it said something like “definitely not on the spectrum.”
So… what do we think of the results? 🤷♂️ Unreliable online tests? Apparently, the tests don’t like the fact that I am able to imagine things, understand social situations really well, and read how people are thinking and feeling, among other things. I actually thought that I might be scoring myself into ASD with a good imagination. At least I wondered and wasn’t sure, during the first test that is. I think I started to realize in the second test that the imagination questions were pointing me away from ASD.
Anyway, so… if no ASD… then what’s my deal? I’m easily overwhelmed when lots of external stressors happen at once (e.g. trying to fix a car with a customer waiting for me there and the next ones waiting on me, while at the same time trying to get information to and parts ordered for my tech, while at the same time having people call every three minutes wanting quotes and to be scheduled in.
When that happens, I get frazzled. Too much going on at once. I get stressed. Overwhelmed.
When I’m stressed out with a gazillion things going on at once, any decision I have make can be… too much. When I’m stressed out and overwhelmed like that, if you give me two options for dinner, I might be like. I don’t know. I can’t think right now. I can’t make a decision.
I think part of that might have to do with always wanting to make the “right” decision? In such situations, I’ve started just saying yes to everything or just picking an option without really thinking about it (or something like that) because my mental bandwidth is full to capacity already, and more things to think about… uh… nope.
Anyway, so… Not sure what the deal is. I would bet I have a super mild case of OCD. Nothing anyone but myself might notice? And only with a few things. But I don’t even know if it’s OCD it’s more of a questioning myself. “Did I press the button? Did it press down all the way? I’ll press it a few times just to make sure.” I don’t know if that’s OCD or not, but I do stuff like that.
What else… maybe I’m just… normal? That doesn’t seem right either? But… then what’s this love thing I’ve got going on, or not going on as the case may be. Or… am I normal and expecting too much? No… there’s something that just seems off with me there. I don’t know, but I guess ASD isn’t the answer.
Maybe it’s just perfectionism? I’m a master at that one. 🙃
Anyway, crazy day today. Fixed my sister’s golf cart. Had someone follow my blog with the same name as someone I know but isn’t someone I know. Was granted a miracle this morning from Captain Universe that has stayed in place to at least some degree today, for which I’m grateful. Maybe I should wait for gratitude time…
Uh… I did… three cars and my sister’s golf cart today, and David did five cars. He made $250 today, so I’m happy about that. I want him to make at least $1000/week, so I’m trying to think of ways to up his income without my own taking too much of a hit (or any if I can help it). I’m thinking about raising our prices. My buddy just upped his prices to $90, and he’s a brick and mortar shop. With me, I go to you. No trying to find rides, waiting for cars to be repaired, etc. Boom. In. Out. Done.
I’m not the cheapest of shops. That prize goes to the Latino shops that charge pennies. (well… $60/hr ish) But that’s part of the culture. They can’t really charge more because other Latino shops are willing to take less. Anyway, I might experiment with prices and see how things go. I started out three years or whenever ago at like $66/hr, which was super cheap. Now I’m at $85. We’ll see. I work hard to keep customer’s cost lower, but it’s hurting me to do that. So… we’ll see how things go.
Anyway, between the 8 cars we did today, it was a good money day for both of us.
I still have multiple people who owe me money, so it’ll be nice to get that, too. Cross your fingers that they pay, unlike my poor drug-addicted clients who got a free trip to the slammer. 😕
Well… It’s 10:04. I’m a little behind but not terribly. I have been terrible at getting my dailies done for a little while, but I’ve been a lot better in some other things. Doing well with porn. No night issues that evolve further than is normal/comfortable for me. Been doing some things to help out there, and so far, so good.
#1. I’m grateful for days like today where the temperature was great. Shorts and a t-shirt and not cold and not sweaty. Lovely.
#2. I’m grateful for this Fall/Winter/Spring time of year when my mysterious health issue isn’t as hard to keep in control because it’s much easier to stay hydrated when I’m not sweating buckets.
#3. I’m grateful I was able to figure out my sister’s golf cart. I did lose my pliers in the process somehow, but…
#4. I’m grateful I was able to get the oil filter off the last car I was working on. It was crazy. Somebody had threaded it on so tightly that the customer couldn’t get it off, and he shredded the daylights out of it. It took me probably 45 minutes to get it off. Fortunately, in the end, I had the right tool for the job. Had to do some cleanup work as well because there were bits of broken filter and metal shavings inside the housing. Don’t need that coursing through the engine. 😬
#5. I’m grateful for the gentleman who gave me a $40ish dollar tip for just a battery change. That was nice.
Well, folks. Onward and upward. To the next task at hand.
Loves and hugs!
Lift the World.
~ stephen
Lift the World 
A good day for a good day!