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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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Cherry

The Rest of My Life: Fate Accompli

Everything is different because of everything else I came across that line this morning in the book I'm currently reading. It's one of those lines...
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Cherry

The Rest of My Life: First Day...

Monday, 8th September 1975 That was the day the then callow 16-year-old me started work. Fifty years ago, bar the shouting. We were living in Devon...
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The Rest of My Life: Thinking...

6:00 am Howling cat fed. Now it's time for my first coffee, then my quiet half-hour in the armchair. As usual, once her bowl's empty, Daisy comes in...
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The Rest of My Life: Topsy

Mum had a dog. An over-sized border collie that I bought for her on her birthday 16 years ago. She was overjoyed from the moment she saw it, giving...
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The Rest of My Life: Windchimes

Technically, today is the first day of my retirement! Tuesday has always been a regular day off for me, so today would normally have been my next...
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201 of my comments have received 227 Great Feedback votes

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Keep writing, Jess.  You know

Posted on Fri, 16 May 2025

Keep writing, Jess.  You know where you're going.

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Posted in Seventh Place

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Thanks, Di.  I took this

Posted on Sat, 19 Oct 2024

Thanks, Di.  I took this matter up with my brother.  He was furious, telling me 'She's really overstepped the mark this time.'  He went off, raging, promising to sort it.  I almost expected what happened.  A few days later, he came back and said...

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Posted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Final Day

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Thanks, Di.  Yes, she was a

Posted on Fri, 11 Oct 2024

Thanks, Di.  Yes, she was a special person - for many more reasons than just being my mother.  She had to be strong to get through those years with dad (bless him - he was a good man, but damaged).  Then to have all those health problems in later...

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Posted in Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - A day out

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A magic that all too quickly

Posted on Mon, 07 Oct 2024

A magic that all too quickly passes.  Mind you, some of us never grow up!

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Posted in Magic Of Youth

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I sneeze at sunlight, too. 

Posted on Sat, 05 Oct 2024

I sneeze at sunlight, too.  In fact, I enjoy the sensation of sneezing so much that I deliberately blink at the sun in order to sneeze.  Sadly, this led to a tear in my left retina earlier in the year, resulting in a 'floater' in my eye that's...

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Posted in A hundred moments in autism - Terrence Oblong's peculiar quirk

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I bought some biscuit

Posted on Wed, 02 Oct 2024

I bought some biscuit-flavoured tea bags.  Tasted like sick!

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Posted in Frugal Schmoogal

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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.

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Posted in A hundred moments in autism - The Whale Cafe revisited

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Tall stories from little

Posted on Sun, 29 Sep 2024

Tall stories from little seedlings grow! wink

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Posted in On the Other Hand

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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!

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Posted in A hundred moments in autism - I am Hangry

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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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Posted in On the Wind

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