Tag: Poland
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I’m incredibly sad
My zucchini muffind look like black pudding and that wasn’t mentioned in the recipe. Recipie was from American website so maybe people in US don’t know what black pudding looks like or possibly their version looks different to Polish which is brown with grey ‘eyes’ made of buckwheat. So that’s how my muffins look like:…
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Dear neighbours
The beauty of living in a village in Poland is, that you have neighbours. Well, obviously, people who live almost anywhere in the world, also in the cities, have neighbours but Polish village neighbours seem to know everything about each other. My Smardzewice neighbours still have impact on my life even though I moved thousands…
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What I know about workplace politics
First of all I want to avoid the term office politics – after hearing it multiple times, we, autistics could assume that as long as we don’t work in an office we will be free from that. Believe me, care homes can be full of workplace politics too. So, in a comment under my last…
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Who would you call an excellent communicator?
I did mention here a while ago that I had the impression that me and the manager of mum’s care home are not going to get along very well. I didn’t want to give any details as I revealed which care home it was, but then, it will take ages before people will start reading…
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What does ‘with this money’ mean
That story happened when I was 17 I think. It’s about how we, autistics, see communication. We don’t really celebrate Halloween in Poland, instead we celebrate what is called All Saints day, when people go to cemeteries to pray and light special ‘cemetery candles’ on family graves. Those candles are called znicze and have special…
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Complex family dynamics
Trigger warning: mentions possibility of suicide in the family I didn’t write about my brother for quite a while, I guess I maybe mentioned him once or twice since I had to leave our family home and move to the hostel back in September. He is not a glamorous person to write about: he is…
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My body doesn’t exist (and how I understand symbols)
So, before I move on to what this post is going to be about, which is a bit embarrassing, I will start with explanation that I don’t really have much of an awareness of my physical body and therefore I don’t worry about my health too much. I don’t know how to explain that but…
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Everything is a matter of perception
It is said that we, autistics, can be very fixated on how things should be. Not being able to buy our favourite curry sauce can cause some of us a massive meltdown or at least put us under stress. I was brought up in a communist country which meant massive queue forming outside of the…
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Not everything can be forgiven
So yesterday I made a post where I suggested to Mr Henderson, CEO of Home Group that he should consider apologising to me. I was brought up a Catholic and heard a lot about the need to forgive. For our priests everything can and should be forgiven and, in theory it actually makes sense as…
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