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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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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Last Words (ii)
When we got back to my flat, I asked him if he wanted to come in for a coffee. He hesitated a moment, then said okay - though he couldn't stop long...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Last Words (i)
The epilogue of my book (abridged). On 21st November 2017, as planned, Russell and I got together - the first time we'd seen each other since the day...
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Tom Tom Turnaround (6) (ii)
Mum stopped working at Gibney's and took another job cleaning at the pub where she and dad used to go in the evenings. On some days she took him with...
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'I really don't like eating
Posted on Sun, 29 Sep 2024
'I really don't like eating food with other people.' Same here. Even the cat has to turn away.
Read full commentPosted in A hundred moments in autism - The Whale Cafe revisited
Tall stories from little
Posted on Sun, 29 Sep 2024
Tall stories from little seedlings grow!
Read full commentPosted in On the Other Hand
Love it! I relate! As
Posted on Sat, 28 Sep 2024
Love it! I relate! As Starmer might say, time to release the sausages.
I wish I could go to gigs. I had to give up on them. Other people make me angry!
Read full commentPosted in A hundred moments in autism - I am Hangry
I was a civil servant for a
Posted on Thu, 26 Sep 2024
I was a civil servant for a few years, and my Office Manager was a Gordon Baker - so this resonated.
I really enjoyed this tale. 'The leaves in the park had lost some of their vibrancy and were beginning to dry up and crinkle, just...
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Fabulous. Stark images, and
Posted on Fri, 27 Sep 2024
Fabulous. Stark images, and some perfectly-chosen words to create them. I especially love that final stanza - dream-like and otherworldly.
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Me, too! 'Crackling Cauldron'
Posted on Tue, 24 Sep 2024
Me, too! 'Crackling Cauldron', 'Halley's Comet', 'Silver Fountain', 'Jack in the Box', 'Chrysanthemum Fountain', 'Spitfire', etc. If you do a search on '1960's fireworks', check out the images. You could still get 'Jumping Jacks' then, too....
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Yes, I've experienced some of
Posted on Mon, 23 Sep 2024
Yes, I've experienced some of that. When I was first referred to a psychiatrist to discuss the issue, he said to me 'You can't be autistic because you aren't flapping your hands and rocking in your chair.' So again, it was using his '...
Read full commentPosted in A hundred moments in autism - Reading Nuerotribes
I only found out yesterday
Posted on Mon, 23 Sep 2024
I only found out yesterday that Steve Silberman had died. I was shocked as he was so young - and not much older than myself. 'Neurotribes' was the first book about autism I read after my diagnosis. Great book. I especially loved the first...
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Climate Change
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
Thanks, Di. I was going to put that in, but wanted to focus on the tech itself and was worried about length (close to word count). You are absolutely right, though. The data centres that power the internet are huge already and are growing with...
Read full commentPosted in Where Are We Now? Ted Kaczynski and Technological Society
It is a rant really, though.
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
It is a rant really, though. It just defeats me. I keep telling myself to drop it, focus on something else, feel happy again. But it's just always there, like this huge monster lurking in the shadows. And I also keep thinking 'What happens if...
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