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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
Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Christmas (i)
Another excerpt from my book about my time as mum's full-time carer during her last months of life. She confounded medical expectations by not only...
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Tom All Alone (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 All Alone (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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Reminds me though, Terrence,
Posted on Sun, 08 Sep 2024
Reminds me though, Terrence, of a story told to me by a teacher who'd worked with autistic children at a special school in Bulgaria. Every morning, some of the kids would come in and set off the fire alarms - and the teachers couldn't understand...
Read full commentPosted in A hundred moments in autism - A trip to the cinema
Exactly what I said to the
Posted on Wed, 04 Sep 2024
Exactly what I said to the woman at KCC when she asked 'Is it likely to cause danger?' They've said it's okay for now - not damaging the road or anything. But the slime is making it slippery. And, as you say, when it's icy. The main problem...
Read full commentPosted in Water Palaver!
I've gotten quite a way into
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
I've gotten quite a way into it. But I've sidelined it for now. It was meant to be a memoir about my 20 years in social care, and the various organisations - private, charity and public - I've worked for. Mainly, too, I envisaged it as a...
Read full commentPosted in Taking Care 2
The alarm bells are justified
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
The alarm bells are justified. One of the worst abusers I've had the misfortune to work with. A horrible bully - he and his wife together. A colleague and I ended up blowing the whistle on them. But they got off for lack of firm evidence (as...
Read full commentPosted in Taking Care 2
So sorry to read that you are
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
So sorry to read that you are going through this, Jenny. I've had one of those scans and those machines are horrible - the noise, the being closed in... all of it.
I know someone who recently had a hip replacement, after years of...
Read full commentPosted in Can Life Get Better?
Someone should give her a
Posted on Tue, 03 Sep 2024
Someone should give her a rocket!
Read full commentPosted in Don't Mess with a Meteorology Man
And, according to figures I
Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2024
And, according to figures I saw recently, an ever-growing number of adults now get their news solely from TikTok. Who knows where that will lead...
Read full commentPosted in They Were Only Children
I agree with Claudine. It
Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2024
I agree with Claudine. It does what poetry is supposed to do: explode something inside my head - a sense of recognition, understanding and agreement - but in a way that takes me time to think through and unravel. It says what I think, but in...
Read full commentPosted in They Were Only Children
Ain't that the tooth! A
Posted on Sat, 31 Aug 2024
Ain't that the tooth!
A short, off-beat tale to bring a smile to my face.
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Great to find these, Terrence
Posted on Mon, 26 Aug 2024
Great to find these writings, Terrence, after a long time away. They speak like my own voice in my own head. Unfortunately, sound is the BIG issue for me. I can pick up the tiniest. I have a new next-door neighbour who, sadly, has a TV the...
Read full commentPosted in A hundred moments in autism - Sometimes there is just too much
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