Tag: coping
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Twisting things
One of the main issues that I can’t cope with is when people twist things during a conversation. My mind just goes totally blank and I don’t know what to say so as a result I agree with whatever they suggested and then get angry with myself. One of the interviews that I had last…
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Focusing on obstacles
When I’m stressed I focused on obstacles more than on the end result. Even when the issue is small, in my mind it becomes a massive problem. Just today I had to order pressure sores dressings for mum (meds are not free for seniors in Poland, like they are in the UK) so I found…
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Surprise, surprise!
One of the advice for supporting autistic people is making everything predictable. But can it actually work? You may at times think that it does because it helped you prevent your autistic husband’s/friend’s/child’s meltdown but how does it make you feel? Are you not stressed by constantly trying to control everything? Do you not feel…
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Finally adulting
That’s a title for the challenge on Redecor: a guy got himself a washing machine and he feels that makes him an adult. I have washing machine and even my own flat for quite a few years already and yet I only recently started feeling like I’m really ‘adulting’. My mum can’t help me with…
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I’d like to be pretty one day
I was always under the impression that I have a really large nose. Not massive enough for me to consider plastic surgery, yet, large enough to be concerned. What I often hear in Poland about disabled people who are otherwise attractive is ‘omg, she’s so pretty and she’s in a wheelchair!’ which sounds exactly like…
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Property sale in Poland
When I was buying my flat in Swindon I was impressed with how well organised everything was there: each party has their own solicitor and the solicitors handle everything, including the transfer of money. It doesn’t mean nothing can go wrong. I remember I instructed my solicitor online and, as I paid an initial fee,…
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My future job
When I was reading online about how one may end up on safeguarding barred list (being on one would prevent me from ever getting job in care) I found two conflicting sources of information: one stated that I have to provide my interpretation of events or I’ll be put on it, the other that I…
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To my prospective employers
I was reading today about how to find a job after one was sacked. It’s not an easy task I suppose. I do hope Job Centre can help me with that as I really lost loads of confidence. I’d really like to go for some kind of job trial where I could see how a…
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Care standards
One of mum’s pressure sores is quite bad, it looks like all the skin has been peeled off of her heel. I’m shocked that the old care home didn’t even inform me. I was really thinking they are taking good care of her. Surprisingly mum said she started liking the new care home and how…
Autistic and me 