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Kevin Marman
Retired care worker, writer, memester, autist, dissenter.
I like people who not only think outside the box, but reshape the box into something else!
I've been writing since I was 10. It's my sanctuary - though the structure often needs maintenance. In 2015, at the grand age of 56, I was finally diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Condition (Asperger's). I live alone with my cat, Daisy, my bicycle and lots of books.
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Tom All Alone 14 (v)
After that first day, Tom felt more relaxed about going to school, and soon got into the routines of the day. Lining up in the playground when the...
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Tom All Alone 14 (iv)
At half-past ten, the bell rang for playtime and they all went out into the main playground. It was a large rectangular area at the back of the...
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Tom All Alone 14 (iii)
Tom's class was a large, bright room next to the assembly hall. Like the hall, it had windows all along one side, but looking out over the playground...
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Tom All Alone 14 (ii)
They were all herded into the large assembly hall first. It was filled with sunlight from the windows that ran along the outside walls. Through them...
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Tom All Alone 14 (i)
The end of their holiday usually meant a return to normal. But not this time. Now, it was all about change. A couple of weeks afterwards, dad started...
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Thanks, Tom. I don't judge.
Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026
Thanks, Tom. I sincerely hope I don't judge, and can't really see any element of judgment here. Perhaps I'm overlooking something. If Harry's judgment (a fictional narrator) is that he couldn't make anything of the story ideas, then that just...
Read full commentPosted in 5. Secondhand Prose
I'm not sure it's a pastiche.
Posted on Thu, 19 Feb 2026
I'm not sure it's a pastiche. In spite of resonances, I think it's highly original. Congratulations. Well-deserved.
Read full commentPosted in Courtesy Calls: The Fire Lane (1)
Duly noted, Claudine. Sorry.
Posted on Sun, 01 Feb 2026
Duly noted, Claudine. Sorry. Comments edited.
Read full commentPosted in I’ve Got a Gal in Tiramisu
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...
Read full commentPosted in Population decline
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...
Read full commentPosted in On the Wind
“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...
Read full commentPosted in Sir Kier Starmer Superhero – Sir Kier and the energy crisis
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...
Read full commentPosted in A hundred moments in autism - Autistic Comedy Night
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...
Read full commentPosted in The Love of the Loveless (Chapter 6) (8)
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...
Read full commentPosted in Aspie Life
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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