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...

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...

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'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...

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 ...