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Playing ‘the cute one’
Yesterday event went well and it tuned out that deciding not to practice my speech was a good choice – I was going to talk about my life so I knew what I wanted to say. If I tried to practice I’d get fixated on using the exact the same words. Not practicing allowed me…
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Are we allowed to speak the truth about how certain autism support techniques make us feel?
I may make a longer post about the radio disability event tomorrow as I am rather shocked about something else now and feel like I want to discuss that instead, however the event went well and it turned out that not practicing my speech was a good choice. What I wanted to talk about now…
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Public speaking for autistics
Tomorrow is the disability in the workplace event in the radio and I managed to prepare a short speech. I decided at the end it needs to be about my own experience, as I don’t even know people with other disabilities (I don’t really know people without disabilities either), and that then made it very…
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How far should I go with educating people?
I had an appointment with my job coach today and, as I was waiting at the bus stop to get to town, an elderly lady came over and she was saying something to me so I removed my headphones as I thought maybe she needed some help. It turned out she didn’t need help, she…
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A few more words about unmasking
Yesterday I wrote that I always feel like I’m acting when I’m around other people and later on I realised that is not technically correct. I don’t ALWAYS feel like I’m acting, I only feel like I’m acting when I’m about to say something and I’m deciding what that should be. So I presume I…
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A few words about unmasking
I presume if you’re interested in neurodiversity (and I guess you are if you’re on my blog) you might have heard about unmasking movement. It has nothing to do with taking off the masks we were supposed to wear because of Covid pandemic. Masking is all the effort autistic people do to appear neurotypical, and…
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Should we be allowed to just be ourselves
I didn’t post yesterday, but this was only because I was giving my website a bit of a break from me, after those emotional 3 days. It’s Sunday today, almost 1pm (when I was writing the first draftof this post). John visited me but he’s already gone! I did notice that he talks differently to…
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A few words about blocking people
https://autisticandme.com/2022/04/12/i-feel-like-im-the-same-like-other-people-something-really-changed/ No, this is not about blocking people on social media, although obviously some may really deserve it. The above is a link to my post from a few days ago when I realised that I stopped feeling different and started feeling like if I was in fact the same like other people. This doesn’t…
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