Tag: challenging behaviour
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Inspector Love
When I got sectioned in 2019, during my second episode, when I was in my own flat, which is against the law in the UK. Six males police officers were dragging me down the stairs in handcuffs while my heavily pregnant deputy manager was watching that. After I left the hospital, I decided to complain…
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Being challenging
I deleted a post yesterday. It was about some of my not very positive experience regarding the situation I am in. I have difficulties deciding what is appropriate to write about here, considering I do not want to create an impression of toxic positivity, and what is going to be seen as a moan. I…
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Surprise, surprise!
One of the advice for supporting autistic people is making everything predictable. But can it actually work? You may at times think that it does because it helped you prevent your autistic husband’s/friend’s/child’s meltdown but how does it make you feel? Are you not stressed by constantly trying to control everything? Do you not feel…
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To my prospective employers
I was reading today about how to find a job after one was sacked. It’s not an easy task I suppose. I do hope Job Centre can help me with that as I really lost loads of confidence. I’d really like to go for some kind of job trial where I could see how a…
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I want to break free
That’s how I understand challenging behaviour. Challenging behaviour is not just something that autistic people with learning disability display, high functioning autistics can also do that, but ours are of course different. Arguing can be form of challenging behaviour and I was guilty of it more than once. I believe we do that to break…
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I feel guilty
I can’t help but feel guilty for simple things that are not directly connected to issues I came here to deal with: having a walk in the sunshine, ice-cream, bottle of coke. Before I came here I was on Universal Credit for around a month and I was making an effort to survive on 2…
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Not seeing things from other people perspective
We sometimes hear that autistic people don’t have empathy. But I know it’s not true. When I see my mum, so tiny in her hospital bed, I can see how vulnerable she is and I want to protect her. We just can’t see things from other people perspective. When I first found out she had…
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19.43 – I’m not a masochist
I did state a few posts ago that doing tax return is compulsory in Poland. It turned out it’s a bit more sophisticated than that. Mum’s tax return was done by ZUS, the government pension and insurance agency. However, if she did it herself (or, in her case, with a help of a trusted friend),…