Inspired by an episode of Canal Boat Diaries I’d watched (gotta love comfy, gentle tv), where the star, Robbie Cummings found himself at a remote mooring. He experienced the situation as a blessing, inspiring him to undertake routine maintenance and get necessary tasks done.
This gave me the idea for a little game. I could be on my own little narrowboat of the imagination. At 4am (my sleeping pattern is ever wonky), I turned the internet off and put on my favourite early breakfast show – shout out to Owain Wyn Evans!
And then I started tackling some household tasks I had been quietly avoiding. Some of them I’d been quietly relying on my carers to just about keep on top of them. Others had just been ignored for weeks.
Now I have washed up dishes, brushed teeth, shaved legs, and a tidied dining table and desk!
Sometimes gamification and novelty really shifts the demand anxiety to a place back to where autonomy feels present.
PDA fae 
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