Tag: social care
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I’ve withdrawn from uni
University of Hull offered me a full refund for my course and, with a heavy heart, I accepted it. I am still glad that I went for it and maybe I needed to make that quick, impulsive decision I made while standing in the corridor of a Sandalwood (Swindon mental hospital) at the end of…
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House with green kitchen floor
I’m reading a book by Martin Slevin titled The little girl in the radiator. I almost finished, there is only a couple of pages left. It’s about author’s mother and how he used to take care of her when she developed Alzheimer’s. It was a rear case where the patient’s communication skills were unaffected –…
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My first uni assignment
I have almost three weeks to submit it and I hope a miracle will happen during this time because I have no idea how to approach it. The purpose of the assignment is to create my own care plan and then offer a critique of person centered care model. This just doesn’t add up to…
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I don’t understand academic writing – stigma example
Ok, so I started my studies and I wonder how I’m going to cope with academic writing if I don’t understand it. I’m just reading a report about perception of dementia; it’s from 2012 so hopefully things improved a bit, if not in perception, then at least in language. Let’s take that couple of sentences…
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My last agency shift
1. As you may know, when I decided a few months ago to give agency job a go, I was hoping to experience freedom. I was fully aware that being autistic I may have difficulties with quickly adjusting to new environments and commuting to places I’ve never been before but I was hoping benefits would…
Autistic and me 