Tag: social imagination
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The need for importance
I’m reading ‘How to win friends and influence people’ by Dale Carnegie. I’m sure you heard about this book, it’s a classic in psychology and social skills training. First published in 1936, so a little while ago; one of the chapters talks about how every human has the need to feel important, the author goes…
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Moral licensing trap
I’m reading a book ‘How confidence works’ by Ian Robertson and I just came across a description of this phenomenon: apparently when people initially do something good they feel licensed to later act in morally ambiguous way. This could explain what I noticed when living in Poland, which is pretty much a Catholic country: people…
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Why some people never apologise?
In an attempt to create some content for my blog I came across a blog by Guy Winch, a psychologist who I mentioned on my blog a while ago. Basically Mr Winch states some people don’t apologise because they have a weak ego. The explanation is actually a bit longer and it’s possible I oversimplified…
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This serious business of mine
I did see several ads on Facebook about ‘an online business’ that didn’t disclose what the business was about – you’d need to register to find out and I didn’t want to do that. But just the fact that the type of business wasn’t disclosed was enough for me to know it’s not something legit.…
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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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I’m not always naive, you know?
It is said that we, autistics, are naive sometimes. And I guess that is true, unfortunately – I like to think that other people always have pure intentions and I’m constantly on the outlook for a ‘role model’, that I can never find. Possibly if I didn’t look for role models my friendships would last…
Magda Regula
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I want to have a child
I’m not quite sure what happened; I was reading yet another book about dementia and I realised suddenly that having a family is a good thing. I presume this realisation could only happen for me when the family I was brought up in stopped existing. Yes, my alcoholic brother still exists but I don’t have…
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Should I apologise to my neighbours?
1. Those kind of things always confused me: is it better to apologise for something you did unintentionally or maybe it’s better to pretend you forgot what you did? As you may know the floor in my flat is really poor quality, I have installed soundproofing boards in my main bedroom but I recently mostly…
Magda Regula
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Is stereotyping always a bad thing?
I did complain on the blog several times that I hate when people stereotype me and when it’s the British who do that I consider it to be racism. I didn’t change my mind about it as yet. I doubt I’d ever do. However, two days ago I started reading a book Qualitative Research by…
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Olanzapine meltdown
So I decided, at the end, that aripiprazole was not a drug I can stay on. It seemed to make me really good at the beginning but this is long gone now. When I have a good night sleep I am more less ok, but if I don’t, I just end up walking around my…
Autistic and me 