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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…
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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…
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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…
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Autistic is my new identity, I suppose
So I went to my surgery to ask how I can alter my medical file, thank god it wasn’t very busy. Both receptionists were very sweet. They listened to my explanation and added to my medical record that I don’t want to be identified as autistic. And then one of them said that she has…
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I went back on Facebook
And do you think someone was waiting there for me? I don’t think so. I started making posts about finishing my life but because I wanted to sound friendly, polite, nonthreatening and indirect, it probably looked like I’m writing poetry. I really don’t know how to talk to people. How to tell them, when I…
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News of the year
It will actually be a year in a few days since I got sacked. Now, guess what? That company found my CV on Indeed and they now want me back. This is too much to process at the moment, with all my diagnosis drama. I may need to go to the ice cream place later…
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I don’t want to be autistic anymore
I asked my psychiatric nurse to add to my file that I don’t want to identify myself as autistic any more. Initially I wanted to ask her to get my diagnosis removed, but then I thought that would look like if I didn’t have it at all, and that would not be reflection of the…
Autistic and me 