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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.
My stories
Tom All Alone 18 (i)
The peace at home never lasted long, though. Quite often now, it seemed, Tom would wake up to hear something going on upstairs - loud voices, crying...
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Blue
times we had, the three of us - fifty summers gone a boy his dogs the day unspooling across the hills and no one sweet hiatus we three the sky the...
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Tom All Alone 17 (ii)
Tom returned to school on the Monday, and Miss Newman was back again. But things weren't the same. As soon as he arrived in the playground he noticed...
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Hilda Doyle's Boil
A silly piece of nonsense, inspired by Hilaire Belloc. Not for the faint-hearted or easily-offended! (my image) Hilda Doyle had a boil growing in her...
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Tom All Alone 17 (i)
I posted a version of this a few years back, as some may remember. It was a factual piece as the incident actually happened. I've rewritten it now as...
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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...
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...
Read full commentPosted in Aspie Life
Legalise it now. Either that
Posted on Fri, 02 Nov 2018
Legalise it now. Either that, or I'm emigrating to Canada!
Read full commentPosted in Ode to Cannabis Sativa
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...
Read full commentPosted in Monochrome
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.
Read full commentPosted in Definitely Not Just Another Dog Story
Have you read Jonathan Haidt
Posted on Tue, 23 Jun 2026
Have you read Jonathan Haidt's 'The Anxious Generation'? An important book. The evidence is pretty irrefutable - not just the stats, but the things we see with our own eyes. The kids are stuck because of FOMO. No kid wants to feel an outcast....
Read full commentPosted in APP-titude
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