Tag: food
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Adjusting to cold
I visited John for two days and I managed with temperature as low as 15C indoors while wearing only two layers of clothing. As I mentioned on my blog multiple times I am (I was?) oversensitive to cold. If temperature indoors was 21C I’d wear long sleeve vest, jumper and a cardigan and still didn’t…
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Do British think they are the centre of Universe?
I had a strange conversation in town today, with a lady who was preparing to sell some Chimney cakes I first became aware of them in Czech Republic, so I thought they were Czech. Now it turned out they are actually Hungarian. Anyway, I thought that lady was Czech or at least knew something about…
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Gossip from psychiatric hospital
1. It does seem to me that some people imagine psychiatric hospitals as scary places where patients run around naked, hit their heads against walls and need constant restraining. I’ve been in three psychiatric hospitals as a patient, in two different countries, I also visited my dad in one and believe me, most of the…
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Unexpected events and me
It’s 17.14, I just came back home after the gym, cafe and stopover in Farmfoods. A while ago I bought a vegetarian product called Swedish falafel from there. A bit confusing as falafel is not Swedish, but I absolutely loved it. Today I felt like I really wanted it for dinner so I went there…
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Managing my emotions
I’m really sad and I don’t know why. In the past I used to be interested a lot in managing my emotions. I was focusing on how I felt hoping that will bring me clarity. Unfortunately it only brought me confusion. Have anyone heard about emotional intelligence for autistics? If you do, please let me…
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Croissants and yoghurt (what will I eat tomorrow?)
Ok, so I’m in Portland after the first day of my training for live in care job and I’m having second thoughts. That’s how it often works for me: I don’t know how I feel about something till I’m just about to do it. As I mentioned on the blog I used to really like…
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How to say the right thing
First of all, I just realised that giving my post proper titles, instead of numbers or dates, is actually beneficial. I am about to add a link to one of them and I remember the post I’m after was titled ‘Wrong answer’, so it was quite easy to find, while if they only have numbers,…
Autistic and me 