Category: Uncategorized

• Welfare check

  Trigger warning: contains upsetting language, mention of suicide and murder 1. I’m not psychotic yet. I went to the pharmacy yesterday around lunch time and collected my olanzapine. I took 5mg immediately and another 5mg in the evening. I had a long nap in the afternoon and good sleep during the night. I woke up […]

  Magda Z.

  June 20, 2022

  Uncategorized

  Baron-Cohen, challenging behaviour, communication, mental health, patterns, workplace bullying

• Don’t steal

  I mentioned here that my mum was a victim of fraud, and had a large sum of money stolen by her favourite bank employee, but it’s been several months now that I think it was all arranged. There was no fraud, it was to trigger me to start playing a different game. I would occasionally […]

  Magda Z.

  June 20, 2022

  Uncategorized

  brother, fraud, mum

• £900k

  And now I think it’s the time to reveal the last detail about what really happened in Home Group employment tribunal claim. Do you know how I collected the most important evidence? By making myself look like crazy on purpose. The purpose of the bulling campaign where I was a victim was to make me […]

  Magda Z.

  June 20, 2022

  Uncategorized

  mental health, workplace bullying

• Lack of social imagination in neurotypicals

  Trigger warning: contains heavy swearing A lot is being said about lack of social imagination in autistics but I think, what about lack of social imagination in neurotypicals? It is my experience that people in general find it easy to relate to experience that is similar to theirs and don’t reflect too much when they […]

  Magda Z.

  June 19, 2022

  Uncategorized

  mental health, opportunities, Poland, social imagination

• How to block autistic people real experience

  Trigger warning: contains heavy swearing I’ll be sending link to this post to professor Baron-Cohen and Sarah Cassidy (whatever her title is) as a part of my challenging behaviour spree. As you know challenging behaviour is part of being autistic and who’s better to challenge than autism researchers? After all they should know how to […]

  Magda Z.

  June 19, 2022

  Uncategorized

  autism characteristics, Baron-Cohen, challenging behaviour, dad, mental health

• Why I had to leave the radio

  I feel like I need to explain here exactly why I needed to make that difficult decision, I do hope this will help other autistics in assessing opportunities available for them. As you may be aware, I felt I was receiving loads of support at the radio station and some great posts have been written […]

  Magda Z.

  June 18, 2022

  Uncategorized

  autism characteristics, radio, social imagination

• I think I recovered

  Around a week ago I posted on my blog that I decided to recover from my mental health issues and that thought was triggered totally by the doctor decreasing the amount of olanzapine on my prescription. And guess what? I think I did. Funny thing, isn’t it? As you may know I had two psychotic […]

  Magda Z.

  June 18, 2022

  Uncategorized

  autism characteristics, mental health, social imagination

• Why ‘being more autistic’ is not an answer

  I made this quick diagram for you to ilustrate what I mean. It’s much easier this way than doing loads of writing, is it? So basically, there is this trend in autistic community that tells us to ‘be more ourselves/be more autistic’ as this should help us feel better. But the problem with that is […]

  Magda Z.

  June 17, 2022

  Uncategorized

  autism advocates, autism characteristics

• Balanced communication

  The radio programme by autistic people was meant to be prepared soon and as you are aware I was looking forward to it but at the same time deciding what to say was giving me loads of distress. Writing was always coming much more easily for me than speaking, even in Polish so that is […]

  Magda Z.

  June 17, 2022

  Uncategorized

  communication, radio

• How to say no when you’re on the spectrum

  As we probably all know, autistics people have difficulties with being taken seriously. This is apparently because non autistic people pay more attention to body language and tone of voice than to actual words and our body language and tone of voice usually don’t express our emotions, so other people just assume that it’s ok […]

  Magda Z.

  June 17, 2022

  Uncategorized

  communication