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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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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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Taking Care 4 (vi) - Day Centre
Laura's group came over at just after 1:30. There were a couple of replacements from the morning. Instead of Terry and Matthew, there was a young...
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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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Paths have become a bit of an
Posted on Mon, 25 Feb 2019
Paths have become a bit of an obsession with me lately! Parallel universes, etc. I wrote a novel once (unpublished) about a man who dies and in the 'afterlife' is offered the chance to see what would have become of his life if he had made...
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As I kid, I well remember mum
Posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2018
As I kid, I well remember mum walking around the sitting room with the V-shaped TV aerial until the picture was right - and dad saying 'That's it. Just stay right there.'
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As you rightly say, the
Posted on Sat, 01 Dec 2018
As you rightly say, the pressures on the young nowadays are enormous. The advent of social media and smart phone technology have created more problems than they've solved - especially for young people. One of my niece's boys was getting...
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Thanks, Jack - just caught up
Posted on Fri, 16 Nov 2018
Thanks, Jack - just caught up with all your comments. Thanks for them all.
Your mentor is right, and I'm sure you'll like the story. The whole book is pretty much perfect. Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio is another such. ...
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (The Night Before)
I can't stop laughing. I
Posted on Mon, 12 Nov 2018
I can't stop laughing. I couldn't help imagining colleagues at work (the boss is okay) I could happily do this to. This is a brilliant piece of writing. I love your sense of humour, Jane.
'The man’s white, flascidious buttocks...
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Thanks, Jack. Yeah... there
Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018
Thanks, Jack. Yeah... there are lots of misconceptions about Asperger's, even among trained people in the field. Lacking empathy, emotionally cold, etc. People struggle with Aspies for lots of reasons - principally because they don't follow...
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Thanks all for your
Posted on Sun, 28 Oct 2018
Thanks all for your encouraging comments. Much of the book is composed of episodes, divided into chapters and parts. The first section leads up to the illness, the second is about mum's brief recovery and those months we spent together. ...
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Enjoyed this. I know that
Posted on Sun, 14 Oct 2018
Enjoyed this. I know that feeling. Arrivals are often a disappointment.
Read full commentPosted in On Platform Two of Basingstoke Station One Night in October
Thanks, everyone.
Posted on Sat, 06 Oct 2018
Thanks, everyone.
Indeed, I could have added.... had I not been a member of ABCTales... had I not first heard about the site from a friend... had I not started writing in the first place...
Read full commentPosted in How writing (and a cat called Daisy) may have saved my life...
Hello again, Di,
Posted on Sat, 29 Sep 2018
Hello again, Di,
Every autistic person is unique with what they can and cannot do. We have a savant at work who can tell you the day of the week that you were born on, but he can't tie his shoe laces and he has the emotional age of a 6-...
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