Autobiography
A hundred moments in autism - Parallel Play
Monday evening. Mrs Oblong and myself have just finished watching the last episode of Sherwood. It’s an hour to bedtime, but neither of us feels like...
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Taking Care 4 (v) - Day Centre
As soon as we got back, Maggie herded her people into their Previa for the trip back to Sittingbourne, and Laura took hers over to the farmhouse. "...
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A hundred moments in autism - A trip to the cinema
I lived for a year or so in London and while I was living in Tulse Hill I went to the cinema at the Elephant and Castle. The Oblong bladder being...
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A hundred moments in autism - Autistic Comedy Night
As a comedy fan, I spent the first 54 years of my life assuming that observational comedy was deliberately unfunny. I have watched hundreds of...
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Taking Care 4 (iv) - Day Centre
It only took ten minutes to get to the driving range, and there were only a few people there so there were plenty of slots. We managed to find six...
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Taking Care 4 (iii) - Day Centre
Thandie's group had sheets of paper with the letters of the alphabet printed on them. One or two people could read the letters, repeating after...
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A hundred moments in autism - First attempts at diagnosis
“What is the meaning of ‘it's no skin off my nose’?” In my late teens I suffered from depression, and was treated at a local outreach centre. I had...
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A hundred moments in autism - Terrence Oblong, Communism and Tudor England
Autists frequently get into trouble for saying things they’re not supposed to, breaking unwritten rules and mores we have no way of knowing the...
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Taking Care 4 (ii) - Day Centre
We came off the main route near Sittingbourne, then went along a series of narrow side roads, through a small village by a railway line, and finally...
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Taking Care 4 (i) - Day Centre
I arrived at ten to nine the next morning to find the day centre Previa already being loaded. Malcolm was taking charge of it, like a bossy father...
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