Tag: autistic identity
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How to make people love you even if you talk nonsense
I was inspired to write this post by a life coach I found on Instagram (there’s loads of them there!). I will not be giving out her name here because it will then look as if I’m calling her out, and why would I do that if her approach works for her and her clients?…
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Stranger-danger
1. My new care coordinator called today and she was lovely. When I use the word ‘lovely’ I don’t mean it the way non autistic people use it; for me calling someone lovely is a sophisticated insult, I do apologize. She had a beautiful voice, so beautiful she could easily work in telesales, and she…
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Mutual respect grant
1. Confucius was Chinese. Did you know about that? I didn’t. Obviously his real name wasn’t Confucius, it was Kong Fuzi. I am mildly interested in philosophy but I thought he was European. Some philosophy concepts are unfortunately too abstract for me to understand. I just read Wikipedia page about Confucius and I don’t quite…
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Autistic is my new identity, I suppose
So I went to my surgery to ask how I can alter my medical file, thank god it wasn’t very busy. Both receptionists were very sweet. They listened to my explanation and added to my medical record that I don’t want to identify as autistic. And then one of them said that she has an…
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News of the year
It will actually be a year in a few days since I got sacked. Now, guess what? That company found my CV on Indeed and they now want me back. This is too much to process at the moment, with all my diagnosis drama. I may need to go to the ice cream place later…
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I don’t want to be autistic anymore
I asked my psychiatric nurse to add to my file that I don’t want to identify as autistic any more. Initially I wanted to ask her to get my diagnosis removed, but then I thought that would look like if I didn’t have it at all, and that would not be reflection of the truth,…
Autistic and me 