Hi, I don’t know how it is for you, but lately I’ve been thinking a lot about my personal routine and how I function day to day. I’ve always been a bit of an odd one out, and everything in me feels amplified. No one has ever officially diagnosed me, but I think that besides dyspraxia and being somewhere on the autism spectrum, I’m probably hypersensitive as well. My emotions are often ungrounded, and when I’m in an environment that isn’t great for me, I sometimes have an emotional breakdown — not an explosion outward, but more like I implode into myself. On the other hand, when I’m in a good place surrounded by good people, it feels like heaven. I experience everything about ten times more intensely. Lately I’ve been trying to get it under control and build a system that actually works for me. At work you can’t really choose your team, but your free time is entirely yours, and that’s where you can change a lot. What helps me are small steps — noticing what makes me feel better and what makes things worse. In my case, aggression, toxicity and too much responsibility really mess me up. I’ve realized I actually hate YouTube Shorts, and even though I learn extremely slowly, natural hands-on work somehow makes me feel good — which is kind of crazy for me as someone with dyspraxia. On the other hand, rigid activities like watching TV or playing PC games don’t help me. The brain often sees these things as “rest,” because an overloaded mind wants a simple story with a happy ending, but when you spend an entire weekend like that, you often end up feeling terrible. Guilt kicks in, you see other people moving forward, and you feel like you’re standing still. But if you overdo it with work, you feel bad too — just in a different way. I know a lot of people have made money selling books about how to be happy, but most of the time they don’t really help. The problem with hypersensitivity — and also its beauty — is that everything revolves around emotions. I’ll be honest: I’m in discomfort more often than I’m calm. My system is still in its early stages, and I’m still trying to fine-tune it so I can be happier more often than not. That’s why I’m writing this. I’m guessing some of you have dealt with something similar, and I’d honestly love to hear how it works for you. After all, we’re all original in our own way. Thanks for reading folks :)