I just came back from the radio. I managed to record the 3 minutes introduction that I wrote last week. It took me an hour, although, to be quite honest, I’d probably managed much quicker if I wasn’t trying to be a perfectionist. I obviously didn’t like the sound of my voice at first, but I was told this is what everyone is saying and at the end I decided my last recording wasn’t too bad.

The manager mentioned after that that I could possibly either run interviews or appear on one but that sounds like a foreign concept for now, although I could probably manage when I get to know people a bit.

One of the volunteers who was there today mentioned that he met somebody who is making a film about killer teapot and I found that a fascinating subject. I was wondering what that film may be about and how can teapot be killing people so I googled ‘killer teapot’ and didn’t find anything about the film but apparently killer teapots are the thing. They are really called assassin teapots and contain two chambers: one with tea, the other with poison so you pour tea for yourself, then press a hidden button and your enemy gets tea with poison.

Before I googled it, I imagined the film to be a cartoon about a teapot that kills people with kung fu techniques. Why kung fu? Because tea is grown in China and kung fu is Chinese.

At some point also, when I had a chat with three other volunteers, they spoke about education and students with special needs and one said that he used to teach maths and gave students short tasks to work out in their head like ‘two pizzas and chips cost 7 pounds and chips cost 2 pounds, how much is one pizza?’ For other people the conversation continued to be focused on their general experience of education system while I switched off and was trying to work out how much the pizza was and I was convinced I found the hidden meaning in the conversation! Seriously, I doubt that is what is considered a hidden meaning by neurotypicals. What is the purpose of that little story? If you’re autistic don’t try to work out the hidden meaning because you’re almost guaranteed to get it wrong.