Tag: social imagination
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Is flying business class the answer to a great holiday for autistics?
I recently saw an Instagram post that advised autistic people to ‘save up’ to fly business class when going on holiday and I was quite upset about it. It does suggest to me that autism is such a profound disability that we’re not going to cope in standard class and I really do not agree…
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My new job
1. I still feel bad about leaving my agency shift yesterday. It seems to me that I can hear a voice in my head screaming ‘how dare you!?’. When I first become interested in psychology, over 20 years ago, a popular belief was that those things are caused by experience we had with our caregivers,…
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There are only two people who can tell you the future
I was wondering recently what the future of magazines are going to be like during times when everyone is a content creator. I’m all for people being creative and in fact I love watching unusual make ups or dresses on Instagram; I don’t even mind occasional cat video. I am trying to remember not to…
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Thank you key workers!
1. Me and The Friend went on a trip to Cirencester today. Cirencester is a beautiful medieval town around an hour on the bus from Swindon. I’d really recommend it for you to visit. Make sure you’ll have a look at the cathedral when you are there. There are also loads of places to eat…
Magda Regula
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Taxi driver’s wife
I didn’t post for a couple of days because The Friend is here and she’s keeping me busy. That is a quick update: 1. Two days ago I did my last shift in that medium size care home in a village near Swindon. I was actually offered some more shifts but decided I have to…
Magda Regula
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If you want to improve your social imagination, don’t focus on people personality
It is said that autistic people are poor at social imagination, that means we can’t predict how complex situations involving people may unfold. It made sense to me for a long time, however, last night I realised something that changed how I see this issue. We are poor at social imagination because when we try…
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Lack of social imagination and the quality of being non judgmental in autistic people
For those of you who don’t know what social imagination is – it’s not the same thing as ‘standard’ imagination that allows people to make up stories of some kind. Social imagination is about understanding how real life situations may unfold and how real people are likely to react. I demonstrated lack of social imagination…
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Don’t steal, block them!
I read a thread on some kind of strategic game forum over the weekend – I sometimes read all kind of random stuff – the thread contained description of how various archetypes behave. It’s in Polish so I won’t be linking it. But it was interesting; you know, what witch does and how priest behaves.…
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Why I had to leave the radio
I feel like I need to explain here exactly why I needed to make that difficult decision, I do hope this will help other autistics in assessing opportunities available for them. As you may be aware, I felt I was receiving loads of support at the radio station and some interesting posts have been written…
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I think I recovered
Around a week ago I posted on my blog that I decided to recover from my mental health issues and that thought was triggered by the doctor decreasing the amount of olanzapine on my prescription. And guess what? I think I did. Funny thing, isn’t it? As you may know I had two psychotic episodes…
Autistic and me 