Autism, Life and Learning

Hey everyone, I know this has taken a while.  I am still going through the process so I will keep updating this post as I go through it.   Before I go any further I should say the PIP stands for Personal Independence Payment. This is a benefit that helps people with any form of additional needs to be independent. And now prepare for an onslaught of stupid decisions and pointless reasoning  So, PIP has been a bit of a pain. There were some things I have spoken of; like the 30 minute ‘interview’ when it took 3 days for me to get diagnosed with autism.  Also, the questions or should I say the answers to those questions are just silly.  Example: how far can you walk taking into account any aids you use? A) less than 20 meters B) between 20 and 50 meters C) between 50 and 200 meters D) 200 meters or more E) it varies. So, they haven’t said where you are walking to. They haven’t given any issue of how hard walking could be. They haven’t even sai...

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 ...

I'm going to talk about this way of speaking. I mention this from my review of Atypical ( click here to see the review). If you have read it then you may know what I'm talking about- Person first language. I hate this way of talking. This way of speaking means they say the person before their diagnoses. They say things like person with autism when it’s easier and truer to say autistic person. This form of language makes it sound like they’re is a cure or even a manageable way to control someone’s autism.   Firstly, none of this is true. You can't cure autism. You can't manage or control it. The best you can do is just accept the person, as a person. Instead of using this silly way of speaking, just be nice, if people don’t understand then explain it some more. If everyone who is autistic uses this way of speaking, one they look really stupid and sound very simple. The community as a whole doesn’t need that. Also, if someone uses person first speech in the everyday ...

I swear I have just had a bad week. As you can tell by the title I haven't really had a good week. I lost track of reality for the whole of this week, I didn't even realise it was Sunday in till around 2:30.  There should have been a blog on Tuesday, so it shows how far out I am. On Tuesday I got to help teach some medical students, mainly about mental health but also about autism. Hopefully, I made a bit of an impact. Wednesday I don't even know what has happened had a catastrophic meltdown and completely forgot what I did that day, same with Thursday. I don't which day it happened but I lost two days.  Friday, me and my parents went into town. I nearly had a complete verbal outburst in the middle of the high street. I had someone in trying to get promote something, I watched him earlier he tried to use the thing to draw people in. If you want to laugh please do, to try and bring me in he said "YO! Dude," this didn't work so he tried to follow me a c...

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 ...

For this one I think it is a bit of a difficult one to explain to someone who hasn’t got any sensory issues, but I will give it a shot 😊 .   I will split it to three parts: one about people, one about different bit of our environment (lightings, smells and sounds) and the last one about how some people on the spectrum make our own environment. So, first things first. What do I mean by environment is things like lighting in a room, odd smells; just the things in a room that can make an atmosphere or change how the room looks. This could include how many people are in a room or the type of person that is in the room with you. Most commonly, so not everyone has these issues, some issues that people on the spectrum are sensitive to light, noise, touch and smell. It like all your senses or a sense has become enhanced in some way. All my senses are sensitive to a point but not as sensitive as some I know. Whilst some I know only have a sense or two that are sensitive. So as ...