Tag: Baron-Cohen
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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
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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,…
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The sweetener chat and appreciation stickers
In my last post I wrote about a situation with a team leader at my agency shift. I kept asking her where sweetnener is (I needed it for a resident) and she was trying to chat with me instead. It is said that autistic people may not pick up on other people intentions and, although…
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Thinking in procedures
A few days ago I came for a shift to a care home I never was in before. The front door was open and led to a little waiting area with a ring bell for staff and locked door to the actual care home. Great idea, I thought, especially when it’s raining. I rang the…
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How to make decisions when ‘Magda shaped hole’ is not available
Just to remind you: ‘Magda shaped hole’ is a situation where I have to make a decision, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be a big one, but I’m unable to weight my options, which happens quite often, unfortunately. What I then tend to do is, I rely on information from the environment, that means…
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Collective illusion
So, I was meant to make some changes to my blogging patterns: reduce the frequency of posting and stop commenting on my thoughts, as I had the idea that I already came up with all the thoughts that I could possibly have, but then it somehow turns out new things are still appearing on my…
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Lack of social imagination and the quality of being non judgmental in autistic people
For those of you who don’t know what social imagination is – it’s not the same thing as ‘standard’ imagination that allows people to make up stories of some kind. Social imagination is about understanding how real life situations may unfold and how real people are likely to react. I demonstrated lack of social imagination…
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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. I feel like I was being abrupt with my psychiatric nurse lately and that caused communication breakdown but I prefer to leave it this way. Having a good relationship with my nurse when I’m about…
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Simon Baron-Cohen’s recent research (the post mentions suicide and suicide ideation)
People who read my blog regularly might have noticed that I really don’t like Professor Baron-Cohen. The interesting thing is that he’s not well liked in the autistic community, so it’s not just me, yet, he remains one of the most prominent autism researcher in the world. Don’t you think there’s something wrong here? Anyway,…
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On masking (my diagnostician)
There is this strong movement in an autistic community that is called anti-masking. That means being against any attempt to behave like neurotypical people do. It makes sense, in theory, but I tried that and, as much as I’m glad I did, it’s only for experience as it really didn’t bring me happiness. It’s tricky…
Autistic and me 