Kingdom of Knuffel

How is everyone handling quarantine? Are you one of those that have to work at risk? Please share, and vent if it's something you need or want.

My mom works for the schools. She's started doing one day a week, four hour, shifts. Dad's on half-shifts. I'm looking forward to when they get back to normal schedules, because they're both so LOUD on the senses (I'm Autistic and have sensory processing issues). And Mom's kind of a bitch anyway. I want a quiet house during the week again.

I can't complain honeslty. My country isn't on lockdown and i still work and get paid. I work more from home and we can't see our clients face to face, which makes my job a lot harder (I work in mental health), but many people are losing their job or not getting paid, so I'm part of the lucky ones.

my fam works from home. I'm sad cause school might be delayed, i'm on waitlists for programs. also not hanging out with people much

I am honestly worried that Dad will bring the virus home. If he does, it will be SO bad for all of us. He's high risk, I'm high risk, Mom's moderate risk...

I talk daily with my mom to verify how her and my dad are doing. They're high risk, so I don't even want to get too close to them for fear I've been around my s/o (who is still working in a shipping-based workplace) and we could give it to them. Might not have symptoms, but we could still be carriers and I worry about putting them in any risky situations. My sister and I make sure they're using masks and only grocery shopping at appointed times for people in their age bracket if they can't get certain things they want via ordering online. My dad is a cancer survivor who went through chemo and already has a broken immune system, so I was furious with him when he went to see our family doctor without a mask but he got a good talking to from all of us later. Had it not been for my s/o catching him there at the same time, we wouldn't have even known! Now he's being better about things. Just- old school parents think they're still invincible or something, you know? Have to keep eyes/ears on them.

Has anyone had the issue of, like, forgetting how to talk to people?

Because man I am not mentally ready to talk to strangers and try and make myself approachable today. How do you even do that?? I haven't talked to strangers in months

My husband works for our local hospital in medical coding. His hours are cut, like all in this hospital

My husband works from home, and I'm a homemaker, so nothing has changed for us.