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• House with green kitchen floor

  I’m reading a book by Martin Slevin titled The little girl in the radiator. I almost finished, there is only a couple of pages left. It’s about author’s mother and how he used to take care of her when she developed Alzheimer’s. It was a rear case where the patient’s communication skills were unaffected –…

  Magda Regula

  October 29, 2022

  Uncategorized

  social care, social imagination

• Freedom of speech

  As I mentioned recently, my statistics are really poor lately, they are probably even worse than when I just started blogging but I still have some views on most of the days. As I was thinking about it I realised I am actually looking forward to that moment when I loose all my readers at…

  Magda Regula

  October 29, 2022

  Uncategorized

  communication, mental health, statistics

• Dementia treatment dream

  Yesterday evening I decided that I shouldn’t be sleeping on the sofa too often and went to the spare bedroom. I ‘only’ slept around 9h and woke up with a headache, one that I usually get when I’m about to have a cold. I got a bit annoyed, after all that time I was off…

  Magda Regula

  October 28, 2022

  Uncategorized

  autistic identity, dreams, emotions, The Boyfriend

• I’m not always naive, you know?

  It is said that we, autistics, are naive sometimes. And I guess that is true, unfortunately – I like to think that other people always have pure intentions and I’m constantly on the outlook for a ‘role model’, that I can never find. Possibly if I didn’t look for role models my friendships would last…

  Magda Regula

  October 26, 2022

  Uncategorized

  communication, intuition, meaning of life, naive, neurotypical, social imagination

• Unimpaired self recognition

  I had like 8h long assignment related meltdown yesterday and eventually John told me off for not being flexible enough with my study. What happened was I decided I’m not writing evidenced person centered care plan because if I have to provide evidence, that means the care plan would not be person centered, it would…

  Magda Regula

  October 23, 2022

  Uncategorized

  communication, education, statistics

• My first uni assignment

  I have almost three weeks to submit it and I hope a miracle will happen during this time because I have no idea how to approach it. The purpose of the assignment is to create my own care plan and then offer a critique of person centered care model. This just doesn’t add up to…

  Magda Regula

  October 22, 2022

  Uncategorized

  autism characteristics, education, social care

• I want to have a child

  I’m not quite sure what happened; I was reading yet another book about dementia and I realised suddenly that having a family is a good thing. I presume this realisation could only happen for me when the family I was brought up in stopped existing. Yes, my alcoholic brother still exists but I don’t have…

  Magda Regula

  October 21, 2022

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  brother, dad, mum, social imagination

• Should I apologise to my neighbours?

  1. Those kind of things always confused me: is it better to apologise for something you did unintentionally or maybe it’s better to pretend you forgot what you did? As you may know the floor in my flat is really poor quality, I have installed soundproofing boards in my main bedroom but I recently mostly…

  Magda Regula

  October 20, 2022

  Uncategorized

  employment, mental health, sensory issues, social imagination, social media

• Is stereotyping always a bad thing?

  I did complain on the blog several times that I hate when people stereotype me and when it’s the British who do that I consider it to be racism. I didn’t change my mind about it as yet. I doubt I’d ever do. However, two days ago I started reading a book Qualitative Research by…

  Magda Regula

  October 17, 2022

  Uncategorized

  autism characteristics, racism, social imagination

• Olanzapine meltdown

  So I decided, at the end, that aripiprazole was not a drug I can stay on. It seemed to make me really good at the beginning but this is long gone now. When I have a good night sleep I am more less ok, but if I don’t, I just end up walking around my…

  Magda Regula

  October 15, 2022

  Uncategorized

  employment, mental health, social imagination