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I’m in Poland
I’m in my home country Poland, in beautiful village Smardzewice, where I was brought up. I have some serious issues to sort out, including fraud that my mum was a victim. It’s not fun, my brother has his own issues (with alcohol and serious self neglect) and my mum is in a care home as…
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I’m on Redecor
A few weeks ago I sent my story to Redecor and they asked if I wanted to be on the game. I thought, exciting, and was really curious how they will manage to shorten the story into the game brief, but they did. Well done guys, and thank you for that beautiful bedroom, I especially…
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The choice
One of the communication techniques I managed to work out by observing my diagnostician, is asking questions in form of, what I call, ‘statement with a void’. This one is very good for helping us make a choice. Let’s say you want to find out how the autistic person in your life would like to…
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That’s not good enough!
Another of my favourite sayings, that I picked up just a few weeks ago. You can use it to create powerful sarcastic message. Imaging that you tell your manager that sometimes, when it’s not busy, your colleagues start friendly banter and you don’t feel included. The response you’re getting is: why don’t you go to…
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Everyone has a number those days (I hope)
I emailed a certain service yesterday to make a certain appointment. The man I exchanged emails with asked: Do you have a number that I could call you on? I wasn’t sure what he meant. Everyone has a number those days, I hope, so that seemed like an unusual choice of words. Did he need…
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Consistency is better than intensity
I stole the above quote from a lifestyle blog. I will not be sharing a link as the post contains statements that, if taken directly, can cause an autistic person to misjudge a situation they are in. But I thought, maybe the above could be something to aim for? We need to think long term…
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Narcissist at work part 2
Devi, the person who gave me so much problems when I worked for Home Group, had a desire to share everything. That was actually the first issue I noticed. She was irritated by the fact that I used to bring my own lactose free milk. She and the manager were sharing milk, and I should…
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Social explorer
It is said that a lot of autistic females camouflage and mask. That means, pretty much, we pretend to be normal, even though it takes a lot of effort. But my dad was exactly like that. He used to make jokes (and not very good ones) while with people but sadly he didn’t have any…
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Is autism a disability?
Some autism advocates argue that autism is a different way of thinking, not a disability. I’d say it is a different way of thinking that makes us disabled. Do you want to argue with me? Let’s take my employment tribunal case as an example. One could say I outsmarted Home Group (they claimed in their…
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Narcissist at work – part 1
I believe that Devi from my story was a narcissist. I also believe that narcissists are responsible for most of the bulling that autistic people experience, if not all of it. Narcissists need to feel they influence people around them and they use their social skills to do that, but because we don’t understand their…
Autistic and me 