Tag: communication
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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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‘He was saying I had a lovely eyes and a lovely personality’ and then he never texted her again.
What will you say for another piece of a dating advice from an autistic female? I wonder how well I managed to work how guys really think. Is it possible that I’m better at it than neurotypical women are? What I think sometimes happens with neurotypical people is that they assume that others think the […]
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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 […]
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I’m getting bitter, I suppose
This is, I think, how my mum’s death affects me (and I’m sorry, I don’t like ‘passed away’ expression, it doesn’t sound definite enough for me, like if the person may still come back). I don’t miss her. I guess I got used to the fact that I’d never speak to her again, we’d never […]
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If I ever end up in a care home (moan about social care)
Ok, so yesterday I did my first shift in a care environment since I got suspended in April last year. The shift was ok, although obviously I can’t say any more than that as it’s confidential. I’m on a sleep in now but can’t sleep as mattress is absolutely horrible (I don’t think that is […]
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The most bizarre dating story ever
I wonder whether anyone can beat me at that. So, as I said earlier, after I left my first partner in my early 30s, I wanted to meet emotionally unavailable man for a romance. I didn’t know at the time that they don’t really exist; there seems to be loads of them everywhere, men who […]
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I Googled my diagnostician, Oriana Morrison-Clarke
Ok, so previous post was about the experience that I call monitoring. Is it possible to be on one? What about privacy issues? I’m not sure I fully like the idea of that. I mean, if it’s true, it certainly helped me to get home safely in 2017, otherwise I could end up arrested somewhere […]
Autistic and me 