Tag: autistic identity
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Why everything I know about autism is wrong – dr Jac den Houting
I just watched the above speech and you know how I feel? It makes me sad. I can’t quite understand why, dr Jac is so confident on stage and they allowed themselves the comfort of appearing without shoes. Not that I’m jealous of that, I need both socks and shoes, unless I’m in bed, but…
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Video on autism in women by Alexandra Pearson
This is an interesting, very positive video made by Alexandra Pearson. She studied autism for a couple of years but didn’t realise she’s autistic because the description of autism was from neurotypical point of view and real feelings of autistic people were not described. I think the video is very interesting to watch, however, if…
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Do autistics really have difficulties with expressing their emotions?
I posted something autism related on Polish Facebook group related to psychology and somebody asked me if I have difficulties with expressing my emotions. That is apparently one of an autism trait. But only when I was asked this question in such a direct way the truth became apparent to me: I don’t have difficulties…
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I can’t do this any more
It’s close to midnight when I write this post and I feel quite uneasy. I was thinking earlier on to suggest to John that possibly I could come over to his place and we could talk but when I was at work today I suddenly got the idea that’s not the right thing to do.…
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I feel like an adult now
This is really strange, I realised it yesterday evening and woke up at 2am today, probably to think about it. Did it ever happen to you that you woke up early if you have an issue to think about? That happens to me sometimes. It feels like my brain decided that working out what is…
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Why I post more than once on some days
I did hear (and read) that people blog to connect with others or to build community (and following). As much as I admire them for that, let’s make that clear: those things are unlikely to happen for me. Well, I guess, with time I may get more readers but I doubt I’ll be able to…
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Blinis 2
As always, I don’t know how to title my posts. Everything seems so out of place, but then, titling them by numbers would not be very practical now, when I used links to some of them in other posts. It’s the third day of my exhaustion, at this moment it seems unbelievable that it’s all…
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Good mood continues
As yesterday, I had this idea to make a post to record that I’m in a good mood. If I only post when I feel miserable, people could come to a conclusion that I am always miserable because I’m autistic. It’s really not like that at all, although, I guess, I may get into a…
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What comes next
I really didn’t want to go to work today. I am sorry to say that but this is probably the most boring job I’ve ever had. Who said that autistic people want to do repetitive tasks over and over? I mean, ok, there is something calming in the fact that I know that when I…
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Flight to Bangkok
I saw an add about discounted flights to Bangkok and thought, let me try to book, just to see how much they are, and return was supposed to start from just over 370 pounds, which is very cheap. However, like it often happens, when I chose my dates and wanted to proceed to booking, the…
Autistic and me 