Tag: social imagination
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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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Autistic ghost
Have I ever tell you that I used to believe I have a ghost in my spare bedroom? That’s why I barely ever used it. That was all probably because this flat seemed to be too big for me. But isn’t that strange that every room here makes me feel differently? Anyway, I was thinking […]
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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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Stereotypes about less social people
I found this article interesting: https://www.succeedsocially.com/lesssocialstereotypes Normally I don’t spend much time thinking what if I knew I was autistic sooner but reading this made me think I wish I could have said to a couple of people from my past exactly that: I’m not a weirdo you think I am only because I don’t […]
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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 […]
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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, there still is my alcoholic brother but I don’t […]
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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 I forgot? 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 sleep in my […]
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Can I express my opinions?
What I’m going to describe here is an example of situations that make me overthink. As you may know I signed up for a university course, Msc in Dementia. I started around two weeks late as course already started when I just only got the idea to apply. Every week we have a new topic […]
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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 ever do. However, two days ago I started reading a book Qualitative Research by […]
Autistic and me 