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How to deal with yourself
People, both autistics and neurotypicals, are asking sometimes how to manage autism. And my response is: you don’t. Autism is who you are, you can’t change that. You can only manage the traits. How? By recognising patterns, creating procedures for desired behaviour and thinking about long term consequences of your actions – although this can…
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Life in a department store
When I was in my 20s, so didn’t even suspect I may be autistic, I read a couple of books by dr Wayne Dyer, an American self help author. In one of them he described a woman who used to correct clothes on shelves and hangers as she was shopping for outfits. Dr Dyer said…
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Magda’s dating advice 1
I just watched a YouTube videa by Max Derrat called ‘Autism and loneliness’. Max has a very interesting way of talking about his autistic struggle so I do recommend you watch it too. It is obvious, however that trying to work out the scary, confusing social world around him is putting him through loads of…
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Everyone is a bit autistic
This is a post from Rachel, published on my autistic female group recently. It’s excellent: funny and to the point so I published it here after getting her permission. ‘A few days ago someone said to me “everyone has autistic traits” which really annoyed me. But I now actually agree that probably everyone has at…
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Do we need the diagnosis?
I asked that question on my female autism group and almost all responses said we do. Why? For adjustments, protection from discrimination and for self awareness and acceptance. NHS waiting times are too long and some of us, expecially females, are being refused diagnosis due to what GP or even the diagnostic team sees as…
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Jigsaw puzzle
The most surprising on this journey from realising I’m autistic, through to the diagnosis, and all the efforts to try to understand myself and others, was realising that I see new social situations as jigsaw puzzle where the piece that represents me has been removed. Since realising that I stopped asking myself ‘what do I…
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Autistic mice
It looks like this is my first post. My aim is to write about how I, as an autistic person, communicate and how I see the World. We, autistics may benefit more from research focused on improving our communication (or on neurotypical communication with us) instead of some other, not very helpful things, like: –…
Autistic and me 