Tag: coping
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A few more words about unmasking
Yesterday I wrote that I always feel like I’m acting when I’m around other people and later on I realised that is not technically correct. I don’t ALWAYS feel like I’m acting, I only feel like I’m acting when I’m about to say something and I’m deciding what that should be. So I presume I…
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A few words about unmasking
I presume if you’re interested in neurodiversity (and I guess you are if you’re on my blog) you might have heard about unmasking movement. It has nothing to do with taking off the masks we were supposed to wear because of Covid pandemic. Masking is all the effort autistic people do to appear neurotypical, and…
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I was attacked by autism researcher!
Seriously, what that was about I really don’t know! I felt I need to post about that as soon as possible and that I need my caramel coretto for that, to feel a bit better, especially after what happened in the morning with CEO of Home Group. So I’m just sitting in my favourite cafe.…
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Divine (meditation music)
I’m on the bus and treating myself to a course of meditation music on my headphones. I listen to it on Spotify but I am not sure if people who don’t have an account there would be able to listen, so I found it for you on YouTube. That’s just example of course, there are…
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Coping with unexpected events
I read an article today about an autistic girl who just started school and her mum asked the teacher to always explain to that girl at the beginning of the day what is going to happen, so that she doesn’t have to cope with unexpected events as those are stressing her out. And I thought,…
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Was I ever tactless?
I keep asking myself this question since yesterday evening and my answer is: being autistic I most likely was, but I don’t remember. Not even that I don’t want to remember, I really don’t. I believe I’m not like that at all since I realised I’m autistic, as I try to make an effort to…
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How to know whether someone is lying?
I think it was just yesterday when I post about the interview with Malcolm Gladwell, the author of ‘Talking to strangers’, where he said that people are not very good at assessing when somebody is lying. I was a bit surprised with that, as I thought this only applies to autistics and now it looks…
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My life in 90 days? What the heck?!
Ok, so I just post about the idea that I had: that we, autistics, should use visualisation techniques to improve our coping skills, especially at times of change. However, visualisation is normally associated with New Age, The Secret and manifesting whatever we want. Which is not going to happen for most people, let’s be honest.…
Autistic and me 