Tag: autism characteristics
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Autism and making decisions
I recently became aware of an autistic female support worker who have been working in care for over 15 years, so longer than me, and was only recently diagnosed. She started looking for another job and disclosed her diagnosis to the employer. The employer then came up with reasonable adjustment for her, without asking her…
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How to spot a lie
This is an interesting article where Elon Musk explains how he can identity people lying in interviews: article Basically people who tell the truth about a problem they helped to solve give more details that those who lie. This is an interesting point and I’m glad that Musk came up with that. So far I…
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Drama, drama!
As some of you may be aware, I broke off with a friend on the blog some time in the middle of August last year. It probably wasn’t very elegant and I wonder whether prioritising creating content was the right approach but it happened and also I never revealed that friend name so the only…
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Masks off!
It’s been good few days now since we don’t have wear face masks at work and one of my colleague told me I have very expressive face that she ‘loves’ and she looked genuinely excited when she said that. I must say I am a bit confused now. My diagnostician told me after my diagnostic…
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Living in the moment
I am unhappy a lot recently; again. And you know what I realised today? I was much more happier before I moved to my flat. Before I moved to my flat I used to live in Reading and my flat is in Swindon, but I don’t think the change of town is what made me…
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My healthy diet
Just before Christmas I signed up for a dieting course with psycho dietitian Mikołaj Choroszyński. What I love about living in a different country to the one I was born is that I can choose what’s best in both of those countries instead of being stuck with what doesn’t work for me. Mr Choroszyński works…
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Strange dream and a couple therapy
It’s 9.50am and I’m wide awake. I had a very strange dream last night: at first I was told there is a married man interested in dating me and I was supposed to guess who it was from hints displayed on a large screen and a number of volunteers were meant to gather from my…
Autistic and me 