Tag: being social
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The beauty of being able to set up a Facebook group easily
Ok, so I found a UK based Facebook group dedicated to providing housing for Ukrainians. There’s loads of British there, offering beautiful rooms in spacious houses but there are very few Ukrainians looking for rooms. The Ukrainians that advertised there spoke perfect English, were either artists or journalists and received multiple responses. That was almost…
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Slightly disappointed with Łódź Council response
Several hours ago I sent an email to Łódź Council team that has been dedicated to help Ukrainian refugees. I asked them to put me in touch with a couple of people who would consider coming to the UK. I initially thought I may wait 2-3 days for an answer (they must be busy there)…
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What do we need face expressions for?
I just came back from pizza dinner with the Meet Up group. I thought it’s going to be fun, like the events that I used to attend before lockdown, but it wasn’t. I’m not sure, why? Maybe because the guy who always entertains people with his stories wasn’t there? You see, in my mind, if…
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I started missing human connection
Seriously, that happens sometimes, even for us, autistics. I need a lot of time for myself before I start missing people, but it’s not the first time it happened. The last couple of weeks it’s been mostly me at home but even when I was at work it was not in settings where social interaction…
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‘I’m like that too’ (nothing wrong with that)
I know that a lot of autistic people absolutely hate when they try to explain to a neurotypical person how they see the world or what issues they experience and the neurotypical person suddenly is like ‘You know? I’m like that too!’ Although I understand this may be said in condescending way to mean ‘you’re…
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The ‘Liking Gap’? What’s that?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4avx73/the-liking-gap-is-why-you-always-wonder-if-people-secretly-hate-you I just found out about this phenomenon called the liking gap which is when someone meets a new person and then assumes that person didn’t like them, while they in fact did. It’s really confusing because I was under the impression that neurotypicals know those things from their nonverbal communication. That’s what we, autistics,…
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The day after the meltdown
As my blog is about recording how I think and feel I need to provide an update after yesterday night time meltdown. I guess I am not too bad, although I feel shattered and also, just slightly on the edge. I rarely feel like that now, but I remember it used to be quite often…
Magda Regula
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Happy New Year!
It was only 9am yesterday that I realised it’s new year already, 2022. How strange, isn’t it? Perhaps the new year parties are not such a big deal like they are in Poland, that’s why I was mistaken about the date. I must say I do miss the atmosphere of the last day of the…
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Punishment – a bad idea
I had a lovely Christmas with The Boyfriend – I will not be describing how our Christmas are different from neurotypical people Christmas as I think it would not really add much to understanding of our needs, but possibly, when I become an established blogger I may add a few words on that, if somebody…
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Being autistic is so tricky sometimes
Over the weekend Ashley Peterson, the mental health blogger who commented on loads of my posts when I just started (thank you Ashley) asked if we follow back bloggers who follow us. She explained she does if the blog interests her as community is very important to her and my first reaction was to comment…
Magda Regula
Autistic and me 