Tag: autism characteristics
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‘You can’t be autistic’ a poem by Kit Foxworth
You can’t be autistic, that’s what they will sayWhen you finally find the courage to speak up one day You can’t be autistic, because you’re a “girl”As though boys are the only ones who belong to that world You can’t be autistic, because my neighbour’s nephew’s friend isAnd you’re nothing like him, after all, he’s […]
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Word count
I finished polishing my uni assignment today and guess what? We were meant to write 2000 words and the word ‘around’ wasn’t included in the brief. I was obviously worried that if I write 1900 it may be too little while 2100 may be too many so I monitored my word count very closely and, […]
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Autism and gratitude
Do you think it would be a good idea to start practicing gratitude? I’ve been thinking recently again about the fact that when we, autistics, focus so heavily on explaining our difficulties to the world, we end up being rather negative. ‘I’m not good with speaking on the phone’, ‘I’m oversensitive to noise’, ‘I’m a […]
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I had a uni related meltdown
It was only a mild meltdown, really, but I realised afterwards that I was being bitter on my blog so I deleted that post. I believe we all get bitter sometimes, autistic or not, but somehow non autistic people have it easier to realise that expressing those feelings openly doesn’t make them look good. Blogging […]
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Autism and copying other people
It is said that autistic people, females especially, copy other people behaviour because they want to fit in, have no confidence, are worried about rejection… which may all be true, but since I started doing my digital art, I realised I copy style of art that I recently saw and felt fascinated by; or sometimes […]
Autistic and me 