Obviously I am probably exaggerating – the fact that I will be on a live radio programme is a big deal for me, but it probably shouldn’t take that much of my attention. The pressure to say all the right things may not be huge but it’s certainly there.

I had my breakfast and will be leaving the house in around 45 minutes. I am quite tired though. Yesterday I spent the whole afternoon trying to comment on posts of various autistic influencers on Instagram, but to comment from their perspective, or sometimes even from the perspective of the person they were talking about. The problem that I had with that was to first find a suitable post – most of them are very general, like ‘autistic people are…/autistic people often…’ without the influencer even mentioning how that relates to them, so it felt to me like there’s no perspective there at all, it’s just the information.

The other thing is that I’m not sure if talking to an autistic person by acknowledging their perspective is the right thing to do. I do accept it is good to talk to neurotypicals this way or possibly in larger groups. Commenting from other people perspective certainly demonstrates that one is a kind and empathetic person and that makes others want to associate with them, but then I remember when people who I barely knew commented on my situation this way, it totally freaked me out. I mean comments like ‘that situation must have been very difficult for you because of A and B’ when I talked about a problem. I was like ‘how the hell do you even know that? You’re supposed to laugh or something’ – obviously I didn’t say that but that was what I thought. Although maybe I’d get used to it and appreciate if it keeps happening to me more often?

The radio show is going to be about what people who are about to move to Swindon should know, and I’m going to suggest to never Google how it is to live here because the answers are devastating while far away from the truth. Swindon is a good place to live. It’s not London, of course, but I guess everyone is aware of it. I like it.