Autism, Life and Learning

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...

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 ...

This week has been an odd week. I have done the Atypical review, which I’m hoping to post every Wednesday or Thursday. From then I will post on here every Sunday. I have done some participation for helping CAMHS, I have done some teaching; which was brilliant. It was nice to teach my wonderful sport that is C1. I also met up with a wonderful friend. I have also figured out with some deduction that I may have passed my End of Module Assessment that I have  passed it, as I got ask for feedback about my module at 4:30 in the morning- I wasn’t impressed.  I will hopefully start typing up the reviews next week. Today I went back into my old C1 it was fun, to be back in it. My old C1 is an older boat, its a Nelo Vanquish mk1, so it was made somewhere in the 90s and most C or K boats usually last 10-12 year, some usually 5 years. So my canoe is a little old. I also found out that my old canoe hurts... well when trying to fit my foot board back on. I kinda cut my finger from my nail ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...