Autism, Life and Learning

Sorry but last Sunday was kinda my Birthday so I had to celebrate a little, which meant I couldn’t do anything like the blog posting or review Atypical- don’t worry they are coming. Anyway, This week and last week have been interesting. I went to my OU class and got back my assignment back which I sent off. Which In PASSED. I have just joined a new gym, which I am going to tomorrow and I will say how it goes. I have been helping my dad put together his motorbike. I have also been helping Young Devon and CAMHS. I like helping these two services as they help young people, especially with young people mental health.  There is one glaring issue. I got my PIP letter... you could say that it didn’t go so well... or I could actually say the truth. I didn’t get PIP, that’s a surprise... I am going a bit of a rant. Sorry in advance.  Firstly the person who has handled my claim you could say lied or forgot certain information. I am going to quote some parts of it. They say that I ...

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...

This month has been busy. To make sure Ive understood this because my head its still spinning. I have been working now two months going all over Devon, I have caught up with friends i lost contact with, I raced in my C1, had a car accident (more on that one later), had  lesson for my OU course and finished my TMA.  That's pretty condensed and with all this i had 2 meltdowns.  Right, I'm going to spend most of this post explaining this silly accident. I should say I wasn't driving. A couple weeks ago me and my mum were going down to training. As my mum was looking  up the junction the car go hit  on the rear, the number plate came off, I was the only one in the car that was calm and making lots of inappropriate jokes, many i can't say on here. We then chose to abandoned training to go head home to phone the insurance people.  No one worry we are both fine. The car had to be repaired though. So we had a hire car... It was a hybrid -_- but not a prius....

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 ...

I handed my first assignment yesterday. I think it was all correct. Next chapter now I had a quick look at it and my idea of how society get made and remade really needs to change. I also looked at the assessment it's an extended version of the first. Let's hope I've answered the first correct or I might be able on the wrong foot, I'm not sure it will be I guess its my right foot. Although could be and really bad foot and start with a hand.  The more I study introduction to social sciences the more I realise that most people with autism are in built with the idea that we are part of society but the patterns that everyone does are so predictable- in the larger cogs of society. That's why we watch people. Most of us like patterns- I'm more partial to pretty lights.  Even so the patterns are there we notice them more or they bother us more, that bit I'm not too sure about. But we see thing in such different ways that we make everything 3-Dementional it o...

Note to anyone that reads this- I take most things literary so you can laugh at what you read. I have to.  I got all the things to study my course- Psychology BSc (Hons), near Christmas time so it was like a Christmas present from the Open University. When my Course had officially started read the chapter I needed to and TMA1 over and over and made a plan even before the Module Introduction. As soon as I went to the introduction I realised everything was ahead by a bit well... a lot- all three parts don't to the word (roughly) just needed to type it up. When it got to typing up, I realised that I had encrypted my assignment- thanks Autism. This meant I had to unencrypt it word by word hoping it made sense. Some how it did but the word count was lagging but at least it made sense. So far the main issue I have with the course is how society is made and remade- my first idea is buildings get knocked down and new ones get put in their place apparently not as simple as that. No...