Autism, Life and Learning

Christmas day had been an unusual day, as it is the day something goes wrong and it didn't. Everything is there pretty much on time. I had my presents🎁- which included an adorable Eevee. I gave my presents🎁 to my parents they both enjoyed them. We also were host to a guest- Which was something we don't normally do. It was nice to host for once, we rarely do it. I hope they had a good Christmas day. For my family we celebrate Christmas from the 24th December - 31st December then celebrates New years on the 1st of January. Which is a little odd I know, but also why I haven't posted anything for that time? We aren't a religious household we go off me and my dad's Taoist ideas of; Peace, understanding of people & togetherness. They sound simple, but they can be hard to keep by, especially if it is for a week😑. We little to no arguments and understanding of everyone. For Boxing day I had to cook, luckily no one got poisoned😌. I like this part of the year becaus...

It's now the start of December. So the shops in town are full of people. Thats why I did all my shopping well before hand. I thought I would give a life update. So I am alive and still autistic. In our household we have decorated the house with Christmas decorations and put up pur tree.  I am planning a fundraser at the moment. It should be fun. So with Christmas looming I am already looking at next year. It seems so far away but It is only less then a month away really. I have sent off my PIP form. So that will be another 6-8 weeks to wait. Yep I will have to wait another month and half to get an asscessment. Then wait the same time again to see if I qualify for it. I think I may forget about the claim before it even happens at this rate.  I thought I would do another update because I keep saying things that are wrong with the world around autistics. So I thought I would do this to say things away from all that.  Also it is completely different from the ones from last we...

So this couple weeks I haven't had any internet but I have a kinda packed couple weeks. I had done volenteered for CAMHS and Young Devon, then I started my university module- Yay 😀. Last week I helped CAMHS again and altered my training plan. I don't mean a small change I mean everything, I have changed everything from the training on land to the training on the water. It's only going to get harder for me 😱😜. Also on Monday I got my complete reasults for my last module and I PASSED!! YAY!🎉 Anyway I know that pretty much everyone that gets taught that autistics don't like change. Whlist this is kinda true it is also worng as most just need time to adjust that could be seconds to months, but everyone else need time to adjust but they can adjust on the fly as it were we can't or we can but not well...😞. It also help if we want the change so with my training I have gone from around an hour on land to around 3 hours that is a big change, but I know to be competive...

This week has been an odd week. I have done the Atypical review, which I’m hoping to post every Wednesday or Thursday. From then I will post on here every Sunday. I have done some participation for helping CAMHS, I have done some teaching; which was brilliant. It was nice to teach my wonderful sport that is C1. I also met up with a wonderful friend. I have also figured out with some deduction that I may have passed my End of Module Assessment that I have  passed it, as I got ask for feedback about my module at 4:30 in the morning- I wasn’t impressed.  I will hopefully start typing up the reviews next week. Today I went back into my old C1 it was fun, to be back in it. My old C1 is an older boat, its a Nelo Vanquish mk1, so it was made somewhere in the 90s and most C or K boats usually last 10-12 year, some usually 5 years. So my canoe is a little old. I also found out that my old canoe hurts... well when trying to fit my foot board back on. I kinda cut my finger from my nail ...

Before I talk too much. This is the new look for the blog I know it's bright but I wanted it to be colourful, I'm sorry if I have burned anyones eyeballs 😉. I have tried to copy colours from actual geckos. So everything has kinda  been geckofied. I have added some more bits around, so if you can see if you can find all of the bits that have changed.   I have now finished my End of Module Assessment- Hooray. I will send it off for marking tomorrow. If I pass I can go to the next module. The next module is about psychology, it's good to actually have a module about psychology in a psychology degree. Anyway rather than just talk about that little update I thought I would talk about how to talk to someone one the spectrum. To me it's one of the funniest and annoying things. I remember I was in year 5, so way before I was diagnosed as autistic, it was just before the Easter holidays. I was on a school trip with the rest of the year, me and some of my classmates and ...

Right first thing first I know I didn't post anything last week. I had a bit of a down week, I finished  my trainieeship and I have my End of Module Assessment coming up next week. So a lot is happening which I can't change and that not always super helpful, but I'm dealing with the rapid shock. I use the reward idea, so for everything you've done well you get rewarded for it, so from there you will try your hardest to get better so the bigger the reward. So because I had finished my tranieeship and completed a university module I thought I would reward myself. If I haven't said already I am very much a nerd and I like comics, both DC and Marvel, so much that I got myself a statue of X-23. She is a favourite of mine from the X-men comics and just as a general character. If you don' who she is she is basically a female version of Wolverine, she appeared in Logan the movie which I liked, although I thought she would of been older. I still liked this version of h...

First a quick catch up I passed my TMA04 which is good. I have just TMA05  to do and my assessments, an exam through course work, for this module. I'm just getting ready to go back to Nottingham  and whilst training I may have caught a bit of sun stroke- but I can't stroke the sun because apparently it 'too hot’  .  This one is going to be an odd one. This post is going to be how some people on the spectrum don't feel like they are human, or should I say they don't feel like homo sapiens. There are two main ways to look at this.  1) They feel like they can do everything better then the standard homo sapiens because their 'gifts' give them an unusual amount of input to the world around them. I kinda fall in this category with my 'gifts' I can mimic and adapt to virtually any situation or environment given to me with near precision hence the nickname Gecko. From this things like adverts or sublimate messages don't work on me because they b...

Well, I had a few good days and spent time with people I trust, sorry everyone but I don't have friends, best you get though. I know that I look at life differently, I guess that's with most if not everyone who is autistic, whether that be in my head, inside a rainbow- pun intended or just blurred with music with colourful lights. Some autistics, including myself, will never really understand people and how to cross the road safety (thank you Toyota Prius driver). However, there are some things that I find that I really understand like physics, mathematics even languages ( to a point). All these have one main thing in common; all these have patterns. So I'm guessing here but other people with autism, Aspergers, ASD or whatever label you want to call it. If we find a pattern to life we can be people and have a life, I think.   . These are things I have always understood in some ways but I have other issues which confuse a lot of things. So I didn't realise how much th...

I got my first assignment back and I PASSED!!! I only had minor things wrongs things like grammar and choosing the wrong words. Now I have to do my second assignment which is now done. (As of 15/03/18). In both I had to do a self-reflection, the only way I could do them was answered them was logically especially the ones where they asked how I felt. I know the questions are for the majority but they would have thought of things that mean people with ASD, especially people on a different part of the spectrum would be to a minimum and that they wouldn't be stumped by things, even if the wording is changed for them. That isn't always the case I have been figuring out. The tutors each have different marking ideas and the book has a rough understanding as well. So both together will make your mark. I am lucky enough to have an understanding of both sides of that coin it fair to say most with ASD won't understand both. I have a study buddy now, they seem quite good at looking ...