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Hi folks!

About a year ago, I gave myself patellofemoral syndrome. At first I thought I'd overtrained, but turns out it was mostly wrong posture, resulting from unwittingly correcting a foot deformity I didn't know about. I also gave myself osteoarthritis in both knees and one hip from it.

Anyway, I got orthotics now, and can run pain free with them+taped knees. So I'd like to start again.

Thing is, most training plans I can find are aimed at either people who are in training, running wise, or starting from 'couch', ie, being mostly or completely sedentary. I'm neither, as I've replaced with walking 5k+ per day most days and swimming 1.5k (breaststroke, keeping my head over water, and in just under 40 min if it matters) once or twice a week.

I also hike, but not all that regularly. Did 20k with 300m altitude (I know, more of a long brisk walk than a hike) last week and it didn't cause any pain during or after. Just in case that's a relevant clue.

Since my pool membership is running out and running is virtually free, id like to get back into it now that I'm mostly pain free and have my orthotics. Does anyone have a link or advice for how to pick it back up without doing more harm than good?

tia!

Fast alles, was ich dort kaufe, führt die deutschsprachige Zutatenliste unter 'AT/CH' auf. Hat mich nur mal milde interssiert.

With other neurodivergents, I feel like we explain what we mean in more detail. If not that, the other one recognizes the lacking detail, asks about it, and it gets cleared up.

When I talk to neurotypicals, or read or hear them discuss among themselves, this doesn't happen as much. When I ask, it's often seen as rude.

Here's some examples of what I mean:

There's a lot of ackshually, x is a fruit/berry/not a berry/ etc. When in fact, the terms each have two definitions: a culinary one and a botanical one. A strawberry is a berry in the culinary sense, but not the botanical one. A tomato is a fruit in the botanical sense, but not the culinary one. Ive repeatedly been called a know-it-all for bringing this up, and ironically usually by the person correcting others by saying, eg., a tomato is a fruit.

'Do(n't) you trust me?' I may 100% trust your intentions, but I don't 100% trust your judgment. This has nothing to do with you; I never 100% trust anyone's judgment, including my own. This happens the other way around, too, when I ask someone for feedback about a decision I'm making, and they say they trust me and thus won't give input. Like, thank you for trusting my intentions, but I don't want you to blindly trust my judgment. That's why I'm asking for feedback.

Another one is respect. Sometimes, to respect someone means to accept them as an authority figure, and sometimes it means to treat them with basic human dignity. It's hardly ever specified which it is.

I could go on here, so please feel free to add your own, I'm curious!

Do you also find this to be an issue with as well as among neurotypicals or am I way off here? Thanks for you replies!

And what language and region is it?

I've noticed my language teacher uses the informal you in one language and the formal one in the other.

I can sew and darn, and knit from scratch, but I've never re-knit a hole before.

I'm so bored of just watching shows, but I'm kind of out of ideas of what else to do when I'm tired (usually about half the day, sometimes al day). I don't even have any one super debilitating disease, but I have like a dozen small things going on that kind of rule everything out.

Hand-to-elbow tendonitis keeps me from what I used to enjoy that doesn't require a lot brain power (drawing, gaming and sewing). I know tendonitis is supposed to resolve more or less on its own, but it's been five years and I have no reason to believe it'll go away at this point.

Socializing drains me, I have to do it in small doses.

I used to run, but I have arthritis iny knees now. I swim for exercise, but that's not relaxing at all, because the pool is sensorily overstimulating. I'm actually only supposed to do low intensity exercising for cardiovascular reasons. But I put up with it because of how much it benefits my mental health.

I also have endocrine orbitopathy, and reading often makes me too aware of the pain in my eyes. I tried audiobooks, but I have ADHD and can't keep attention at all when I'm just listening to something.

I love to hike, but I'm kinda scared to get back into it because I need to be close to a bathroom, and that's kinda putting me off.

So, what do you do to unwind? For fun? Not even necessarily looking for advice, I'd just love a chat with people who have similar struggles.

In case you were wondering how media in different countries assess the US' situation, one of Austria's most read newspaper did a cover story on the Kirk assassination, describing it as the US edging closer to civil war. Apologies that it's in German, I've translated the title at least.

I realise there's zero posts in this com but figured I'd try. Wanted to censor their handle, but it's the cherry on top of the comment.

Routine for reference:

AM: rinse, sunscreen (that online moisturisers enough) PM: cleanse, sometimes BHA (tried varying the frequency), retinol, moisturise

I've become frustrated because I still get clogged pores, every single pore on and beside my nose is black, my entire chin is white gooey pores. So I eased off and put the BHA and retinol on hiatus, and the painful cystic pimples came back, along with even more clogged pores. I really need them gone to keep me from picking at my skin.

So, anyone else been there?

Anyone got any tips? Yes, I wash my pillowcases, sleep enough, drink enough (if anything too much) water, eat well.

I have no idea how I fucked up and had this compressed so much, it's OC and still ended up this blurry