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Dead Man: 6 (i)

By HarryC on Mon, 23 Jun 2025

John discovers that he isn't alone after all... John opened his mouth to answer, but there was nothing. Instead he just sat there, gaping at this new...

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The Erosion of Choice

By HarryC on Fri, 20 Jun 2025

I’m one of an ever-diminishing minority in the UK. Maybe, even, the world. The western world, certainly – if research is to be believed. I don’t have...

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Dead Man: 5

By HarryC on Mon, 16 Jun 2025

And so there John found himself, in this peculiar kind of limbo. Of all the possibilities there could be after death, this was the one that he had...

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Dead Man: 4

By HarryC on Sun, 08 Jun 2025

Some things happen so fast that the brain is unable to register them. Like a bullet firing from a gun. Other things happen at a speed that allows for...

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125 of my comments have received 135 Great Feedback votes

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With you on that, Turlough.

Posted on Mon, 02 Jun 2025

With you on that, Turlough. It was behind my decision not to have children, in the end. With AI being predicted to wipe out many white-collar jobs soon, too, children today face a future more uncertain than at any time in our lifetimes. We...

Posted in Population decline

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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...

Posted in On the Wind

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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...

Posted in Sir Kier Starmer Superhero – Sir Kier and the energy crisis

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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...

Posted in A hundred moments in autism - Autistic Comedy Night

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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...

Posted in The Love of the Loveless (Chapter 6) (8)

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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...

Posted in Aspie Life

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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...

Posted in Aspie Life

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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!

Posted in Ode to Cannabis Sativa

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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...

Posted in Monochrome

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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.