Tag: being social
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All day brunch
While walking through town today I felt a sudden desire for English sausages. I was getting quite hungry as I fasted for 40 hours straight (yes, I have been doing intermittent fasting again and not only I finally lost weight but also I don’t have to watch my portion sizes when I eat). I was…
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The concept of ‘best friend’
Yesterday I met up with a friend who I met through work a few years ago. She is also Polish but around 25 years older than me. We are quite different, she’s very chatty and outgoing while I like reflecting on things. We went to Cirencester, a market town nearby and ended up having a…
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Moaning and neurotypicals
I didn’t post for a few days; I am certain most of my readers are focused on getting ready for Christmas rather than worrying about keeping up with my blog, but I did miss my writing. Quite frankly I miss posting every day and I may need to look for ways to be able to…
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This serious business of mine
I did see several ads on Facebook about ‘an online business’ that didn’t disclose what the business was about – you’d need to register to find out and I didn’t want to do that. But just the fact that the type of business wasn’t disclosed was enough for me to know it’s not something legit.…
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‘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. I can’t believe I’m 44. I’d probably need plastic surgery if I lost all that excess weight, lol! I took…
Magda Regula
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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 how to use the group 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 am…
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How to be considerate of others
I was reflecting today on what does ‘everyone is different and we need to be considerate of others’ and ‘to give people space to be themselves’ mean. It does seem to me that people occupy spaces in the game of life so if someone is The Bossy One and I become The Pushover, it’s as…
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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 feels 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…
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Don’t steal, block them!
I read a thread on some kind of strategic game forum over the weekend – I sometimes read all kind of random stuff – the thread contained description of how various archetypes behave. It’s in Polish so I won’t be linking it. But it was interesting; you know, what witch does and how priest behaves.…
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Ruffle tickets and social reciprocity
It’s 22.27 and I just came back from a fundraising dinner organised by the radio. It was an Indian restaurant with a buffet, curries were really nice but I managed not to overeat, so that was good. However, I came across a certain problem. I’m not quite sure how to say it without offending anybody…
Autistic and me 