Tag: autistic identity

• ‘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 – which for me became a symbol of my Employment Tribunal game. I look kind of cute, don’t I? 🙂 […]

  Magda Regula

  September 21, 2022

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

• The Rule

  Guess what my surname means in my native language. Exactly that! I never really liked it. Maybe that’s why I understand that some rules really need to be broken. But possibly my dad understood it differently? And that’s why… Anyway… how does that affect AUTISM RESEARCH?

  Magda Regula

  September 20, 2022

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  autism characteristics, autistic identity, Baron-Cohen

• Allegations vs facts

  If you have a proof allegations becomes facts. Home Group tweeted me yesterday and I cannot believe that I wanted to genuinely forgive them! I thought that they see my perspective and want to make it work somehow but they Were hoping to bribe Oriana Morrison-Clarke to get her to convince me to sign that […]

  Magda Regula

  September 6, 2022

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• Autism, kindness and social anxiety

  I just joined local Facebook group for ladies who want to make new friends, but I have no idea what to do apart from that 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 […]

  Magda Regula

  August 30, 2022

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

• Bad liar

  Have you ever wondered how would you feel if you found out that someone who you trust lied to you about something that you consider crucial? Maybe it doesn’t affect you directly but it shapes how you think about yourself in comparison with this person so it affects your friendship. So basically I used to […]

  Magda Regula

  August 17, 2022

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  autism characteristics, autistic identity, communication, dating, detecting bullshit, social imagination

• 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 like I’m calling her out, and why would I do that if her approach works for her and her clients? The […]

  Magda Regula

  August 14, 2022

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  autistic identity, communication, neurotypicals

• 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 referring this way to someone I just met is a sophisticated insult; I do apologise. She had a beautiful voice, so beautiful she could easily […]

  Magda Regula

  August 5, 2022

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  autism characteristics, autistic identity, communication, neurotypicals

• Confucius was Chinese

  1. 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 know what he […]

  Magda Regula

  August 4, 2022

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  autism characteristics, autistic identity, communication, mental health, physical health

• Life is too short to be normal

  I saw the above sentence yesterday and I liked it so much that I decided to make a blog post out of it. I must say it certainly feel like that to me now: after everything that has been happening I’m thinking, why would I be normal if other people around me are not? I […]

  Magda Regula

  July 20, 2022

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  autism characteristics, autistic identity, being social, communication

• Eliminating my psychiatric nurse – continued

  So as you may know I’m going to be discharged from my mental health services on the 1st of July. My latest demand on my psychiatric nurse to reveal what they are doing to me (I mean speech and language therapy in the community) created communication breakdown and I feel I don’t want to work […]

  Magda Regula

  June 25, 2022

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  autistic identity, Baron-Cohen, communication, narcissist