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 ...

I had my PIP assessment on the 13 th I think it went well👍. As I walked in I twitched quite badly, I still have a bruise nearly a week later😔. The person who saw me was a qualified nurse, even they didn’t quite know what to do with me. Which sounds bad but through the Health and Social Care system only specialist really deal with autism. Also, Autism diagnosis are getting more common, but it doesn’t mean people with autism see more of doctors, nurses or other people through the health care system. We see the same people that we keep seeing because that is the best way of stopping the meltdown, either that or they have to bring in someone who knows about autism or is trained in special needs.  Anyway, back to the PIP😶. It only took around 30 minutes. My assessment for autism took 3 days, yes days😱😳. So… How does 30 minutes fill up 3 day’s worth of assessments? I am not too sure either. So, people genuinely think that you can cover completely someone’s autism in 30 min...

Here is my second blog of the day. This time I want to talks about something that is making me tick, just ever so slightly. I’m sure most people have seen that in a programme called I’m a celebrity get m out of here there is someone with autism in there. YAY! To be more precise she is another Aspie like me.   As you should know I mainly argue things on here. So you can guess what I has been making me tick.    For once it isn’t putting someone with Asperger’s in a ‘dangerous environment’. It more I haven’t really seen someone with “severe autism” or “harmful autistic traits” in any show or really in entertainment at all. I should mention I am including   people who have Tourette’s, OCD or as I said- “severe autism” or “harmful autistic traits”. Not that I would like to see them in harms way, take I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here I would most likely want to hug or pet one of the many crocodiles they have or see if something will do me harm. That partly becaus...