Autism, Life and Learning

I am firstly sorry this one is late by nearly a week😶. I was waiting to talk about my experiences at the DANA Post Diagnostic course. Then I had a meltdown💫🙃. That was from the DANA Post Diagnostic course😶. Anyway, the course it self taught me not much else I didn't already know. For anyone who hasn't been to one.  A post-diagnostic course is where you learn some bits about your condition, in my case autism (Asperger's), you learn about the strength you can have being autistic, learn how to control certain issues and how to fit into a neurotypical world. And we did this for 3 hours💥 and have this again next Tuesday.  Well, anyone who knows my thoughts will know that I don't think we should fix it, we should be able to thrive alongside neurotypicals; all we need is a little kindness and support from people around us👪. My 'superpowers'💪 are to mimic anything I need to be to get by, alongside some others but I want to focus on this one. I know some peop...

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 ...

Sorry for the belayed post, lots of things have happened on my end and well, change is hard to cope with when you lose track of where some of the changes happened. Anyway, I thought I would do a fun one. I downloaded Grammarly to help with most of my issues on here... well its good, but so infuriating. Every time I quote someone, it thinks I'm wrong. It doesn't understand that I might need to misspell things or that I might want to use my own language for once. The language I use is an altered form of binary, that being translating in English is a little rough. In binary, there are no commas, full stops or semi-colons. It allows me to take in as much information as possible, in fragmented sections. The only issues are spelling in binary is hard. Grammarly uses programming to adapt, but it can't adapt to something that isn't its language being used. So its a bit annoying when I want to say; Hi everyone hows are you enjoying this? It will point out that...

Hi everyone, if you have been reading some of my blog posts you will know I don’t really like The National Autistic Society at all😡. I like that we can celebrate everyone is different on the spectrum, but with them or at least the ones allowed on social media don’t seem to like any labels that separate us or like most of the terms of us… Which okay I can understand but the puzzle sign (which is the sign for autism and Aspergers) they don’t like. The terms high functioning, low functioning, Asperger’s and some don’t like the term Autistic. Which are all silly, my official diagnosis is Asperger’s with High functioning autism. They would prefer a person with autism- which sorry I won’t use. This shows some people that there may be a cure for us and there just isn’t we are perfectly odd people. Anyway, they have come up with a very biased video on YouTube😖. Before anything is said in the comments, yes I am subscribed to them, I do this just so I know what other people are talking about ...

Right like I said I had something a little odd I was doing. This time the topic is Autism, just pure ASD. I ask some of my friends, yes, I do have some and yes, it is a shock. I am going to give what I asked them first then I will show you what they said, this hasn’t been edited- they are this corny. I will use the nicknames I gave them.  These answers are from Nemo (not the fish🐠) What are the good things about having a friend with autism? The good things about having a friend with autism are the things you learn and start to understand and the bond you develop with each other as you both understand each other different views and outlooks on life. Having a friend with autism has made me so much more aware of how it might affect the daily life of an individual with autism. It has enabled me to become more aware of different factors which contribute to autism and how things like the environment or social situations can cause challenged or barriers for an individual ...

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...

So today I thought I would do something different🙃. I am going talk a bit about emotions😮, I know that I try and stay away from this. This time around I am going to talk about areas and link them to music. Why music? This is because I can’t name the emotion, but I can name the song that I feel similar or that sums up that emotion. Although I know happy😊, sad😢 and angry😡 I won’t be using them they will also be listed through music. All the music I will find a counterpart of it in YouTube so if you want to you can listen to it as well. You might figure out a lot of these are by an artist called Sigrid. That is because I’m obsessed with her music🙉. 1) The first scenario is meeting someone new to getting use them. So, I would say ‘Strangers’ by Sigrid, ‘Run to the Hills’ by Iron Maiden then it would go towards ‘Ain’t Got Far To Go’ by Jess Glynne  2)  The second scenario is being happy, I am going to break this up into three reasons Just happy, then it would be ‘D...

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 ...

This is one I really wanted to talk about but I wanted to research it first, there is literally nothing on it and yet me and some of my friends deal with this. It has no name- or at least one I can find.  I call it a one day depression. This happens roughly after a meltdown for a day or the day after a meltdown. To me it drops my mood slightly, I also feel more anxious and that affects other things which may or may not start another meltdown. If that happens then  more and more meltdown happen, so sleep is the best answer and start from where we can process. If it isn't going in a vicious circle, then you just feel down, more anxious like I have already said. I also shut people off and don't want to talk. So it  is like going back to a basic mode where everybody looks at you where they know something is wrong with you, what isn't nice but you can't do anything. I'm lucky that I adapt to situations and can mimic personalities so people don't know what happens ...

Right I will admit that I haven't said everything about this topic, partly because I'm really bad at explaining but also because its a really confusing topic to talk about especially when you are tired. From where is I left off  where I talked about different degrees of gender and when it comes to sexuality we still fit into very normal boxes, like being heterosexual, gay and lesbian, trans-gender and bisexual. Well most of us don't fix ourselves in those brackets. If you wanted to label me you could put me in non-binary or in gender fluid as I am either depending if my emotion chip is working. So some of us have no natural gender, although I know I'm male. When it comes to sexuality I think I can be safe to say quite a lot are pansexual. Pansexual is where you fall in 'love' with the person/machine not the gender so some of us may 'love' a robot rather than a person. If you wanted an example from me then although I like somebody I have a connection wi...

Its a two for one today, mainly because this post should been done this week and the last post should have been done last week but the our internet company decided to forget about us.  So this is the last topic in this and its about gender and sexuality, I’m going to add relationships in as well just to give a fuller picture. Word of warning this is going to get complicated really quick and its going to get odd very quickly. So you have been warned.    So I'm guessing anyone you is reading this knows about LGBT+, I know I have missed most but for the sake of simplicity, anyway if not L is Lesbian, G is Gay, B is Bisexual and T is Transgender and the + is for everyone else who comes under their banner. Here where it will get confusing.  A lot of people with autism are LGBT+, but for most who aren’t we don’t have definitive gender. We can be seen as male, female, slightly feminine, slightly masculine, Male but very feminine- although not gay, Female but very mascu...