Tag: opportunities

• I was a racist once

  I need to discuss this uncomfortable concept here. I was thinking that, although we all, in British society, try to raise the awareness of racism we rarely talk in details about what it actually is and what it isn’t. The British don’t want to touch this subject because they are worried they will be attacked […]

  Magda Z.

  October 13, 2022

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  British public, education, employment, opportunities, racism, social imagination

• Effective altruism (in Swindon)

  I’m not sure if I understand the concept correctly but it seems to be about praising people and organisations that do good. I normally complain here about various options of support that seem to be available in the UK, but when one (especially an autistic one) reaches out, it turns out there’s nothing substantial there […]

  Magda Z.

  September 23, 2022

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  autism characteristics, communication, coping, creativity, employment, Entertainment, meaning of life, mental health, naivity, neurotypicals, opportunities, product review

• Allegations vs facts

  If you have a proof allegations becomes facts. Home Group tweeted me yesterday and I cannot believe that I wanted to genuinely forgive them! I thought that they see my perspective and want to make it work somehow but they Were hoping to bribe my diagnostician to get her to convince me to sign that […]

  Magda Z.

  September 6, 2022

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  autism advocates, autism characteristics, autistic identity, British public, challenging behaviour, communication, creativity, detecting bullshit, diagnosis, emotions, employment, Entertainment, fraud, infinite games, infodumping, intuition, meaning of life, meltdown, mental health, mum, my diagnostician, naive, naivity, narcissist, neurotypicals, news, ny diagnostician, opportunities, patterns, physical health, Poland, pretended play, product review, psychosis, radio, social imagination, social media, war, workplace bullying

• Does it matter how you got the job if everything works just fine?

  I post here a while ago how I got that second job in The Company (not using their real name here means I’m in tension reduction stage of my challenging behaviour spree; in case you could not work that out. By all means it’s not my intention to hide anything from the public eye). Basically, […]

  Magda Z.

  September 5, 2022

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  autism characteristics, communication, employment, opportunities, social imagination

• If people don’t follow your guidance, do this

  Pleasie 🙂 Just a quick post as I’m rather tired. I am aware that some autistics complain that other people don’t listen when the autistic comes up with a great idea. It is sometimes difficult to know what to say for that – it can sometimes be our fault and the idea may not be […]

  Magda Z.

  August 18, 2022

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  autism advocates, autism characteristics, communication, narcissist, opportunities, social imagination, war

• I cut my hair myself! (Not the first time so don’t panic)

  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Callum Stephen (@autistic_callum_) The above post, by Callum Stephen, an autistic advocate who’s active on Instagram and Twitter, discusses challenges and solutions related to having hair if you’re autistic. Callum discussed that in details so I won’t be going into my problems related to hair and […]

  Magda Z.

  August 14, 2022

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  communication, coping, employment, opportunities, Poland, social imagination

• Collective illusion

  So, I was meant to make some changes to my blogging patterns: reduce the frequency of posting and stop commenting on my thoughts, as I had the idea that I already came up with all the thoughts that I could possibly have, but then it somehow turns out new things are still appearing on my […]

  Magda Z.

  July 11, 2022

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  autism characteristics, Baron-Cohen, detecting bullshit, naive, neurotypicals, opportunities, workplace bullying

• Lack of social imagination in neurotypicals

  Trigger warning: contains heavy swearing A lot is being said about lack of social imagination in autistics but I think, what about lack of social imagination in neurotypicals? It is my experience that people in general find it easy to relate to experience that is similar to theirs and don’t reflect too much when they […]

  Magda Z.

  June 19, 2022

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  mental health, opportunities, Poland, social imagination

• Learning to say no to opportunities

  A few weeks ago, after I drafted my speech ‘Other people perspective’ (the password is Smardzewice, if you want to read it) I emailed it to a lady from one of Swindon charities that used to provide me with advocacy after I got out of psychiatric hospital at the beginning of 2020. Although I didn’t […]

  Magda Z.

  March 17, 2022

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  autism characteristics, communication, neurotypicals, opportunities