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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Photographs
I'm going through a final reading of 'Gift' - my memoir about caring for my mother in her final months. I thought I'd post this short section. It's...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (ii)
In spite of her cold, mum had rallied over Christmas and had been much more her old self. The warnings were never far away, though... The rest of...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (i)
Another excerpt from my book about my time as mum's full-time carer during her last months of life. She confounded medical expectations by not only...
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Tom Tom Turnaround (7) (ii)
"You still awake, Russell?" - "Russell?" "Shut up and go to sleep." "I want to see Father Christmas." "You saw Father Christmas in Selfridges." "I...
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Tom Tom Turnaround (7) (i)
The street lay still and empty in the pale, windless sanctity of a winter Sunday afternoon. There was a church-like silence and secrecy about the...
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I genuinely think her heart's
Posted on Thu, 26 Sep 2024
I genuinely think her heart's in the right place. She uses her wealth to good social ends. I find her music and her presence quite bland, uninspiring and forgettable - Joni Mitchell or Patti Smith she ain't - but am glad if she can make some...
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“No, it’s a tediously nasal
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
“No, it’s a tediously nasal-sounding middle-aged white man in a cape.”
Brilliant. I retire next year on only the state pension. And as I've worked for fifty years, I'll get the full state pension. Which'll make me £12 a month above...
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I heard a joke recently:
Posted on Sun, 08 Sep 2024
I heard a joke recently:
'How do you know if someone's autistic?'
'They'll tell you.'
Hm.
One of the biggest laughs I had was at a comedy night where one of the comedians was disabled. He used his metal crutches to...
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And it's a very common
Posted on Mon, 04 Mar 2019
And it's a very common experience with high-functioning autistics - as I read and hear all the time from others. Even in my last job, with an autism charity, the lack of proper understanding was profound. I left in the end because of a bullying...
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I understand the info
Posted on Tue, 06 Nov 2018
I understand the info overload! It's all a lot to take in, and it takes time to process. I'm 3 years past diagnosis now, and I'm still running the numbers. To use the old cliche, it's a rollercoaster. So many positives... but the other side...
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Thanks, Stephen. It takes
Posted on Tue, 06 Nov 2018
Thanks, Stephen. It takes some processing - and we're good at that! I over-analyse everything.
I tried to make this not so much about behaviours and more about how Aspies perceive the world. It's one of the reasons that diagnosis is so...
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Legalise it now. Either that
Posted on Fri, 02 Nov 2018
Legalise it now. Either that, or I'm emigrating to Canada!
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A beautiful tale, Lindy. It
Posted on Thu, 13 Mar 2014
A beautiful tale, Lindy. It lifted my heart to read this today.
That's sounds like exactly my kind of holiday, too! The travel agents never quite understand, do they.
I especially love the hope embodied in this - the...
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So many things going on in
Posted on Sun, 16 Mar 2014
So many things going on in this one, Tina. Love, loss, disappointment, aging, the sense of growing isolation... and the comfort, still, in those small familiar things. That final stanza is perfect in capturing it all.
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Thanks, Di. I took this
Posted on Sat, 19 Oct 2024
Thanks, Di. I took this matter up with my brother. He was furious, telling me 'She's really overstepped the mark this time.' He went off, raging, promising to sort it. I almost expected what happened. A few days later, he came back and said...
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