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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I know this is meant to be graphic, although I will try and take some out this is a disclaimer that there may be part find either disturbing or upsetting. Although I don’t know emotions I know that one 😃. Sudden changes these are hard for everyone even neurotypicals. I will try and do some of these sudden changes as there are a lot of them. I am going to cover around four of them. These will be death, break ups in a relationship, someone going to hospital and a general sudden change.   From this I will talk more about the affects because people don’t want to know about things like this. A general sudden change. This is where something is out of someone’s control usually. To someone on the spectrum most of us need control and order in some way. So, anything that throws us out of that order is sudden. This can lead to things like meltdown, overloads and physical abuse to other people- sorry. These are the general things that people know happen. What is happening inside m...