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‘You can’t be autistic’ a poem by Kit Foxworth
You can’t be autistic, that’s what they will sayWhen you finally find the courage to speak up one day You can’t be autistic, because you’re a “girl”As though boys are the only ones who belong to that world You can’t be autistic, because my neighbour’s nephew’s friend isAnd you’re nothing like him, after all, he’s […]
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Word count
I finished polishing my uni assignment today and guess what? We were meant to write 2000 words and the word ‘around’ wasn’t included in the brief. I was obviously worried that if I write 1900 it may be too little while 2100 may be too many so I monitored my word count very closely and, […]
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John said he missed me
And those two words made me feel like he really is on my side; like if he’s waiting for me to get better but not pushing for it. You see, communicating with a depressed autistic person is really not that difficult. He also said I may need to go to doctor. But I don’t want […]
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To believe or not to believe?
I’m just reading ‘Dancing with Dementia’, a book by Christine Bryder, an author and advocate with young onset Alzheimer disease. Christine says at the beginning of the book that she asked her church group to pray for her shortly after her diagnosis and they did, they specifically decided to pray for her recovery. She was […]
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Can I have some dopamine, please?
I keep trying to understand the role of dopamine in developing psychosis. Of course that is unlikely to happen as even scientists don’t understand the connection, they only assume dopamine causes psychosis. But if I’m on medication that reduces effects of dopamine in the brain and dopamine is responsible for brain reward system (at least […]
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Saturday catch up (getting rid of my delusions)
Yes, yes, I know, I wrote a blog post yesterday. However. I thought ‘catch up’ is such a nice and innocent phrase. Do you know what is my most popular blog post so far? It’s this one: Is Boris Johnson autistic? 61 views so far. I told you, I’m not a very popular blogger. As […]
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My unusual beliefs
I am perfectly aware that believing I’m on speech and language therapy delivered by the community is unusual, but what supports this theory is that I have almost no misunderstandings with people, or, to be precise, no misunderstandings that upset me, which was common a few years ago. Or is it possible, do you think, […]
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