Tag: communication
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My psychiatric nurse wants us to ‘move forward’
It’s been ages since the last post about communication; neurotypicals just didn’t give me enough inspiration. The purpose of my posts about communication is to prove that autistic people don’t necessarily take everything directly. Especially after our diagnosis! As you my remember my previous nurse left around June time. As I was considered low risk…
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Strange dream and a couple therapy
It’s 9.50am and I’m wide awake. I had a very strange dream last night: at first I was told there is a married man interested in dating me and I was supposed to guess who it was from hints displayed on a large screen and a number of volunteers were meant to gather from my…
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Autism and cheating
I read a post on a forum yesterday where a neurotypical man was worried that his autistic girlfriend may be cheating on him. He didn’t say what the signs of her cheating are, other than doing full make up to go to a supermarket (how is this a sign of cheating? I will never understand…
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R.I.P. Ashley
Do you remember Ashley Peterson, the mental health blogger who used to comment on my posts a lot before I cosed comments? She passed away on the 9th of October and her family hinted on the blog she commited suicide. What else those words could mean? ‘She could no longer bear the suffering she was…
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John said he missed me
And those two words made me feel like he really is on my side; like if he’s waiting for me to get better. You see, communicating with a depressed autistic person is really not that difficult. He also said I may need to go to a doctor. But I don’t want to; it would mean…
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Being more British
A few days ago I had this situation with a Chinese looking lady on a bus that made me think whether I should try to be more British. I was sat in an aisle seat when that lady, age around 60, came up and asked for the window seat. There were a few aisle seats…
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Freedom of speech
As I mentioned recently, my statistics are really poor lately, they are probably even worse than when I just started blogging but I still have some views on most of the days. As I was thinking about it I realised I am actually looking forward to that moment when I loose all my readers at…
Autistic and me 