If you liked Voyager, you will like Prodigy I would say. It is for the young (at heart).

I love dogs! I don't have one yet, but I most certainly will. I'm pretty sure it will help me cope with stress.

I'll try to keep it short. These are the things I love doing, even though I sometimes don't have the energy for any of it, except lying in my bed. Being autistic can be quite exhausting.

...tinkering with alternative operating systems for notebooks and smarties.

...watching Star Trek - grew up with it and just don't get tired of (re-)watching. My fav is Voyager.

...playing video games - my favs are Loz - Breath of the Wild and Horizon - Zero Dawn

...reading - mainly SF, fantasy, and non-fic. My fav authors are Stephen Baxter, Robin Hobb, and Henry David Thorau.

...strength training - one of my rooms was turned into a training room.

...cycling - I own an almost 20 years old Specialized Rockhopper and prefer day trips.

...travelling and hiking with my GF - mainly in remote areas such as Lapland for example.

... lying in my bed, since it is the one place with the least sensory triggers.

Fingers crossed. I know from my own experience that it can make all the difference in the world to finally have a lot (!) of things explained. (Got my diagnosis at the age of 34, ten years ago.)

I got nothing to add to the comments already written but wanted to say "thanks for sharing", 'cause I'm in this mood now for weeks. It's like I'm waiting for something to happen without knowing what this something is. Luckily I'm going on holidays a few weeks from now. So: Thank you for sharing.

Though they are double the price you mentioned as a limit, I want to recommend the ones I'm using for other people in need of really good NC headphones coming to this thread.

I got myself refurbished Bose Quiet Comfort 45 and in my opinion they are perfect. I use them to blend out noise in public transport, museums, shopping malls, the office and so on. I can wear them for hours without my ears hurting or the battery running out. They really improved my quality of life.

• Aegis for MFA
• Aurora Store for Playstore apps
• Breezy Weather
• Fossify apps for basics
• KeePassDX for pwd mgmt
• K-9 Mail
• LibreCamera
• (Oeffi for public transport)
• OSMAnd~ for navigation
• QickDic(tionary)
• Molly (fork of Signal messenger) or Threema
• Tracker Control

A long time I experienced myself as "normal". It didn't occur to me, that "all the others are weird" can't be right. While reading about ADHD a friend of mine also read about Autism and Asperger's Syndrome. He often said (both teasingly and matter-of-factly) "You most certainly are autistic". Eventually I had enough of it and looked it up. The Wikipidia article convinced me blazingly fast ("wrong planet syndrome") and I got diagnosed within half a year by the age of 34 (i.e. 8 years ago by the time of writing).

IMO it isn't so much about knowing who you are, but where you are, what you do, what you like etc. From that they (e.g. G👀gle) will extrapolate a profile and do whatever they want with it - faked data or not.

Furthermore Fitbit belongs to Google. I wouldn't use a Google product if I was concerned about privacy.

https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater#how-to-use-it

• F-Droid for FOSS apps

• Aurora for Google Playstore apps

• OSMAnd for navigation

• Oeffi for public transport

• many Simple Mobile Tools apps

• K-9 Mail

• Tor browser

• Shelter for isolating apps

• Tusky for Mastodon

• Jerboa for Lemmy

• Nunti for RSS feeds

• Molly for Signal

• Telegram FOSS

• Aegis for 2FA

• QickDic (dictionary)

• TinyWeather

• Threema Libre (not free)