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…
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Difficult emotions
After ‘going crazy’ the entire night; despite zopiclone at 21.30; I mean… I had maybe 2h of sleep, I was planning what to do about my university degree. I almost designed my thesis… and now; 9.01am, I’m trying to get some sleep and feel absolutely devastated. I’m useless. Home Group knew that; that’s why they…
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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?
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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 where I was 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,…
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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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Villains of my speech therapy
I was wondering recently who takes part in my speech therapy voluntarily, who is forced to do that and who refuses. The thing is, my diagnostician has no ability to force people outside of my mental health team to say certain things to me; they can still behave however they want to and I won’t…
Autistic and me 