Tag: communication
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I’m sticking to my values (I could still afford funeral plan)
Yesterday I had a phone call from a company that offers funeral plans. I don’t have one and normally I’d refuse to speak with them but after my mum died I think I become more aware of my own mortality so I thought I’d talk to them. It turned out the lowest monthly payment was…
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I just realised something (the importance of indirect communication)
When I realised I’m autistic and that there are levels of communication that I don’t get, I started paying more attention to what is being said in non direct way. For that I didn’t need anyone to prompt me (I described here a while ago how my diagnostician prompted me to see other people perspectives).…
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I’m allocating myself a reward
I’m on my way from the local radio station, and I must say the chat with the manager went really well. I will write more about it later, possibly even tomorrow, after I put things into perspective, but for now I wanted to say that I had a feeling like I want to allocate myself…
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Is asking questions the answer to everything?
I just received a newsletter from one of the business coach I signed up for during the couple of last weeks. It was about the fact that people don’t like those who are ‘salesy’ and instead, if we want something from another business person we should ask questions. And I found it so terrible confusing!…
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I got lucky twice!
It’s only been a few months ago since I realised that how I understand the concept of luck is probably quite different from other people: for me it’s not about the impact the event has, but about how unlikely it is. So if it’s something small, but very unlikely, and it’s positive, I consider myself…
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I feel numbed
I had my visit to the dentist and I was numbed, so I feel numbed. It’s a very smart sentence, isn’t it? I think I should feel lucky as the infection cleared off in both of the teeth that I was worried about. I didn’t know that is possible, I thought one day I’ll just…
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How much clarification is too much?
That’s the problem with communication – you can never be sure what the other person means. And I must say I certainly get less confident about it since I realised I’m autistic, even though I can’t really remember many situations from the past when I misunderstood somebody, but still, it feels to me now that…
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I feel really impatient lately
I tend to feel impatient whenever I start doing something that matters to me. I felt terribly impatient when I just started blogging – I wanted to tell everyone about my diagnostician and was hoping to change the world with the emails I was sending to various organisations. I found it difficult to understand that…
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I don’t have covid
I am not sure if I posted about the fact that I worked in a care home with some civid cases over the last weekend? So when I developed cold symptoms on Tuesday morning I got rather concerned and ordered a home test kit from NHS website. It got delivered on Wednesday so I posted…
Autistic and me 