Tag: communication
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Watch out for… logical fallacy
https://mentalhealthathome.org/2022/02/10/what-is-logical-fallacy/ I just read this post on Ashley Peterson’s blog. I think this is what neurotypicals do quite a lot: twisting facts to make it look like they’re right. Possibly reading about it in a bit more details will make it easier for us to, autistics, to spot that. I wonder whether this should be…
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My first fasting day
It’s 21.20 now and I will be going to sleep pretty soon. I decided to go back to intermittent fasting and my first day went well, I’m really pleased with myself. I managed to do grocery shopping and the fact that I’m fasting didn’t affect my food choices. Also, which is exactly the same experience…
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Lunar feast
That is a title of one of a recent Redecor challenges. And guess what I read? Funeral. This is not the first time when I realised that I twist words into what I have in my head. Possibly that’s why communication with us is so difficult? I wonder, however, if neurotypical people also do that.…
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Even more sleep
So basically yesterday, after having two long midday naps, like 4h in total I also had two evening naps. That’s how I marked mum’s funeral day. I then woke up at 22.30 and I decided it’s time to actually go to sleep so I changed into pj, brushed my teeth and slept till 7.40am. I’m…
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What is emotional regulation? (nonverbal communication)
When I first started reading about autism I came accross the term ’emotional regulation’. All the articles I read stated that autistic people are not good with that. I understood it’s about our ability to deal with stress and not getting upset easily and I agreed I wasn’t good at it. Although that thought brought…
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Expectations vs reality
I was at work yesterday for 24h (which includes sleep in) and although I could technically post on the sleep in shift, I didn’t feel like it. It was a bit of a difficult day, considering what I’m going through but sometimes it really is much easier to focus on work. Yesterday in the morning…
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Why I don’t admire John Gray (Men are from Venice or whatever)
I bet you know who I mean. This guy, who I believe has PhD in human psychology (can one have PhD in animal psychology actually?), who wrote a couple of books about men being from Mars and women being from Venus. In general the conxept is great and he has some insights, I can’t deny…
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I’m a scared little blogger
I don’t tell people that I blog. It’s probably because I don’t want any questions around it or to create more misunderstandings. It seems like the perception of a blogger is that we’re always happy, confident, know what to say and if we experience any negative emotions it’s only for a few minutes, and we…
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Mental health and self-stigma
Self-stigma – I think I have a lot of it. Even though I blog about my mental health. I think it’s a lot to do with how we use language. It seems like everyone wants to talk about mental health openly now and this conversation starts like this: ‘Talking about mental health is so important,…
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Am I totally normal?
I went on a trip to Oxford. Is that a normal thing to do 4 days after one receives a message about their mum death? Well, I don’t know, but I guess as I’m autistic, I can’t be normal, can I? I first went to that Lebanon restaurant called Comptoir Lebanais, it’s a place full…
Autistic and me 