Tag: sensory issues
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Broken boiler and a messy kitchen
The boiler lady finally arrived today. I don’t really know why she needed to go to the kitchen sink but she removed all dirty dishes from it. I asked her if she would like a cup of tea. She politely refused. She then went to the bathroom… I remember how I claimed on my blog…
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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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My boiler broke down
Three hours after I decided to end my ‘no heating challenge’. I don’t know if I actually posted about this challenge here. Possibly I was too cold to do that; typing under the duvet is not ideal. Basically some time before Christmas I joined the protest against rising energy prices and decided I will be…
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Sensory heaven
Unexpected changes are difficult for us, autistics, aren’t they? But then, should we insist on always getting what we expected? And what if the change is for the better? Anyway, that first week at work was still stressful, although I presume it was in large part due to my negative experiences from two previous workplaces.…
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Personal hygiene and society expectations
You know, I sometimes feel as if I’d like to live in a society where being ‘clean enough’ is considered ok. I am aware some autistic people have problems with taking showers or baths, it is often said it’s due to sensory issues, but I wonder whether there’s anything else behind that. I actually like…
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Playing ‘the cute one’
Yesterday Disability Confident event went well and it tuned out that deciding not to practice my speech was a good choice – I was going to talk about my life so I knew what I wanted to say. If I tried to practice I’d get fixated on using the exact same words instead of delivering…
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How far should I go with educating people?
I had an appointment with my job coach today and, as I was waiting at the bus stop to get to town, an elderly lady came over and she started talking to me so I removed my headphones as I thought maybe she needed some help. It turned out she didn’t need help, she thought…
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I’m cleaning
After deciding to take an Ukrainian refugee I am surprised to feel like I gained some control of the situation. Which is obviously not true, the situation of the people of Ukraine will be exactly the same, but I feel better, so that is something. Today it was actually the first time I cried while…
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