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‘You’re not that bad’
I remember, that was quite a few years ago, when I was under stress and tried to talk to someone and that’s what I’ve heard: You’re not that bad. So I asked ‘How do you know?’ ‘I can see that’ that person answered. I don’t remember the situation but I know that happened in the…
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Is telling the truth the solution?
I was wondering recently whether speaking the truth will be solution for our communication difficulties. It was meant to relieve us from the troubles of constant masking and repeating things we heard other people say. Also, I was hoping it will make people respect us and hopefully will prevent them from expecting us to chat…
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Are emotions taboo?
That’s how I feel frequently. That, possibly, talking about emotions means we’re not coping. While saying ‘when my mum died I was off sick for two months’ is absolutely ok, describing the emotions that led us to go off sick is not. Feeling desperate is probably the most taboo of all the emotions out there.…
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I feel so incredibly alone
I woke up with this feeling of being incredibly alone. How would you call it? Is feeling alone an emotion? I think I’ll have a look at list of emotions later on and try to fit myself in somewhere. I had a strange dream during the night: me and some neighbours tried to catch my…
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Emotional integrity| Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/childhood-emotional-neglect/202202/6-signals-relationship-lacks-emotional-integrity I keep having an impression recently that Psychology Today is full of bullshit. I just read this article about emotional integrity, which is the state where we understand our emotions and clearly communicate them to others, yet the article doesn’t mention alexithymia, which is inability to understand our own emotions. Autistics are very often…
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‘I can’t afford it’ – glass is always half empty if you’re in the UK
I already made a short post about it yesterday, where I said that British public judge success by the amount of debt someone has. Obviously, that is not official and you’re not going to read about it on BBC, but this is what people really seem to think. I’m sure there are people here who…
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Video on autism in women by Alexandra Pearson
This is an interesting, very positive video made by Alexandra Pearson. She studied autism for a couple of years but didn’t realise she’s autistic because the description of autism was from neurotypical point of view and real feelings of autistic people were not described. I think the video is very interesting to watch, however, if…
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How do we define success?
I found this article while looking for some information about how to be authentic. The article states that our society measures success by the amount of savings one have. Psychology Today is an American website so possibly things are different over there? From what I see, British society measures success by the amount of debt…
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How does ‘on the edge’ feel?
I mentioned a few days ago that, even if I’m aware of my feelings, I can’t usually name them (although I have no problem with sadness). I also mentioned that I don’t understand how my ability to name feelings would help. My understanding is that, as long as I know how the feeling feels like,…
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Autistic and me 