Autobiography
Butterflies
Butterflies Jennifer Pickup, 16.09.2024 Another warm September day – I watch the mourners make their way Into the building of goodbyes, With...
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Taking Care 6 (ii)
I realised early on that I got better results from people if I didn't try to coerce them with activities. Like the thing with Greg. Instead of...
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Taking Care 6 (i)
It didn't take me long to settle down into the job and become a respected team member at the day centre. It was the same at Remus Lodge, too. I was...
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Taking Care 5 (ii)
I wasn't sure how to get to Sainsbury's, but Terry seemed to know the way - telling me 'next left' or 'next right' in that robotic monotone of his. "...
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Taking Care 5 (i)
Over the following days and weeks, as I settled into the routines at the Centre, my conviction consolidated. I'd never dreamed that I could get such...
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1960's
I suppose it seemed like we all wore Wranglers. Used to snigger at vertical danglers. Friendship was good, but many were wanglers. Pop was king, with...
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A hundred moments in autism - In which I manacle my legs together in my underpants
Autists are often clumsy and I am no exception. I am at the Edinburgh Fringe with my wife. It is her day off and she is spending the evening with her...
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A hundred moments in autism - The zinc and chrome plating problem (2)
The previous ‘moment’ explained the speed of my thinking, but it didn’t explain the next moment in the chain, the reason why I didn’t try harder to...
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Isolated
I have seen almost nobody for years now it is just me, and my brother. Just my brother and the man who cleans and works in the garden once a week I...
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Taking Care 4 (vii) - Day Centre
We had coffee at just before three. Most people had finished their painting by then. We put the ornaments on the windowsill to dry in the sunshine...
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