Tag: autism characteristics

• My first uni assignment

  I have almost three weeks to submit it and I hope a miracle will happen during this time because I have no idea how to approach it. The purpose of the assignment is to create my own care plan and then offer a critique of person centered care model. This just doesn’t add up to…

  Magda Regula

  October 22, 2022

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  autism characteristics, education, social care

• Is stereotyping always a bad thing?

  I did complain on the blog several times that I hate when people stereotype me and when it’s the British who do that I consider it to be racism. I didn’t change my mind about it as yet. I doubt I’d ever do. However, two days ago I started reading a book Qualitative Research by…

  Magda Regula

  October 17, 2022

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  autism characteristics, racism, social imagination

• 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…

  Magda Regula

  October 12, 2022

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  autism characteristics, autistic identity, communication, education, Entertainment, mental health, Sleep School

• Enjoyable and successful year ahead

  It does look to me like I had a mini maniac episode and during this time I signed up to Msc in Dementia on University of Hull. I presume you may be aware of it, if you read my blog regularly. Let me tell you how it went, from the beginning. So at first I…

  Magda Regula

  October 7, 2022

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  autism characteristics, Baron-Cohen, British public, communication, education, infinite games, Poland

• Effective altruism (in Swindon)

  I’m not sure if I understand the concept correctly but it seems to be about praising people and organisations that do good. I normally complain here about various options of support that seem to be available in the UK, but when one reaches out, it turns out there’s nothing substantial there or even, possibly, the…

  Magda Regula

  September 23, 2022

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  autism characteristics, communication, coping, creativity, employment, Entertainment, meaning of life, mental health, naivity, neurotypicals, opportunities, product review

• ‘Be a bit weird’

  Above: me, in the communal area of Applewood, with it’s famous red window. It was 23.15, I was meant to be asleep (hence the eye mask) but somehow ended up listening to Pitbull’s International Love. I can’t believe I’m 44. I’d probably need plastic surgery if I lost all that excess weight, lol! I took…

  Magda Regula

  September 21, 2022

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  autism characteristics, autistic identity, being social, communication, dad, mum, neurotypicals

• Birthday cake anxiety

  When I saw John a few days ago he said he’d bake me a cake for my birthday, which is at the end of December. I immediately loved that idea and we started browsing through recipes. John loves cooking but I always had the idea he spends a bit too much time browsing through recipes,…

  Magda Regula

  September 4, 2022

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  autism characteristics, Baron-Cohen, communication, neurotypicals, social imagination, The Boyfriend

• Autism, kindness and social anxiety

  I just joined local Facebook group for ladies who want to make new friends, but I have no idea how to use the group to actually meet someone I could become friends with. It seems to me I’m a terrible judge of character, or at least females’ character. What doesn’t help is that I am…

  Magda Regula

  August 30, 2022

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  autism characteristics, autistic identity, being social, emotions, mental health, neurotypicals

• Further reflection on work and personal relationships

  I need to tell you about the situation with John. So, around two weeks ago, I wrote on the blog that I don’t know if our relationship will survive. I didn’t mean anything specific by that and we certainly weren’t going through any problems. I thought I made it clear that what I meant was…

  Magda Regula

  August 30, 2022

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  autism characteristics, communication, dating, emotions, employment, naive, neurotypicals, social imagination, The Boyfriend

• How to be considerate of others

  I was reflecting today on what does ‘everyone is different and we need to be considerate of others’ and ‘to give people space to be themselves’ mean. It does seem to me that people occupy spaces in the game of life so if someone is The Bossy One and I become The Pushover, it’s as…

  Magda Regula

  August 24, 2022

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  autism characteristics, being social, communication