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 like I’m calling her out, and why would I do that if her approach works for her and her clients? The…
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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 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…
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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…
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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 be identified as autistic. And then one of them said that she has…
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I went back on Facebook
And do you think someone was waiting there for me? I don’t think so. I started making posts about finishing my life but because I wanted to sound friendly, polite, nonthreatening and indirect, it probably looked like I’m writing poetry. I really don’t know how to talk to people. How to tell them, when I…
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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 myself 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…
Autistic and me 