Autism, Life and Learning

Lets do this one out of the gate, as you are more then likely going to hear this the whole way through. I HATE SPEAKING ENGLISH! 😤 My first language was BSL, British Sign Language, so coming from a non-verbal form of communication to English is like doggy paddling to swimming the English Channel😨. BSL has very little grammar and well... English is full of it🙃. You have words that are easy to say like to, but this comes at the cost of the what meaning does it mean. I know that in different places of the UK have accents and with this comes lots of different words that have different or new meanings. Did you know that BSL also has accents, its the same words just signed differently. To this makes more sense. Also I normally don’t call people by their names and almost never will whilst processing because if I had talked to 5 Alice’s and 10 Bens and processed them all the same then I would lose which Alice and Ben I talked to about what😓, so i...

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...

Firstly this won't be a normal blog as you can tell by the title. I am still writing my PIP post and the Netflix account decided not to work on my laptop or my laptop is on strike- either one.  This is why I am doing this on my phone. So it shouldn't be too long  before any issues get sorted. So what I am going to do is say what I am going to talk about shortly. Then what is happening at the moment. So I am going to talk about in the next coming weeks. -Pip - making changes - Names and languages - why me (should be an interesting one) -Fandom - and of course my reviews of atypical. Thank you for reading I am not going to leave any links but please look at some of the post and please say what you would like to see.

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...

Christmas day had been an unusual day, as it is the day something goes wrong and it didn't. Everything is there pretty much on time. I had my presents🎁- which included an adorable Eevee. I gave my presents🎁 to my parents they both enjoyed them. We also were host to a guest- Which was something we don't normally do. It was nice to host for once, we rarely do it. I hope they had a good Christmas day. For my family we celebrate Christmas from the 24th December - 31st December then celebrates New years on the 1st of January. Which is a little odd I know, but also why I haven't posted anything for that time? We aren't a religious household we go off me and my dad's Taoist ideas of; Peace, understanding of people & togetherness. They sound simple, but they can be hard to keep by, especially if it is for a week😑. We little to no arguments and understanding of everyone. For Boxing day I had to cook, luckily no one got poisoned😌. I like this part of the year becaus...

It's now the start of December. So the shops in town are full of people. Thats why I did all my shopping well before hand. I thought I would give a life update. So I am alive and still autistic. In our household we have decorated the house with Christmas decorations and put up pur tree.  I am planning a fundraser at the moment. It should be fun. So with Christmas looming I am already looking at next year. It seems so far away but It is only less then a month away really. I have sent off my PIP form. So that will be another 6-8 weeks to wait. Yep I will have to wait another month and half to get an asscessment. Then wait the same time again to see if I qualify for it. I think I may forget about the claim before it even happens at this rate.  I thought I would do another update because I keep saying things that are wrong with the world around autistics. So I thought I would do this to say things away from all that.  Also it is completely different from the ones from last we...