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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) - Settling Up (ii)
A couple of days later, he came over again. He'd brought his copy of mum's key, so I now had them all. Four door keys in total, plus two for the back...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Settling Up (i)
Following the final day with the clearance at the bungalow, it's time to pay some bills. (continued from 'Final Day') The next day, I went into Walsh...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Final Day
The final day of clearance at my mother's bungalow, following her death. Joanne, my niece, comes to help me as my brother has gone on holiday. Lottie...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Clearing the loft
In continuing with the final draft of 'Gift', I've reached the point where I'm clearing out my mother's bungalow following her death. I'd been...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Mother's Day
Another extract from the final draft (still in progress) of my memoir of my time as my mother's full-time carer at the end of her life. So March wore...
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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
'Our life is frittered away
Posted on Tue, 27 Aug 2024
'Our life is frittered away with detail. Simplify! Simplify!'
Henry David Thoreau
(as many have pointed out... one 'simplify' would have been enough, Henry!...
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Letter in The Times a couple
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
Letter in The Times a couple of weeks ago:
Harriet Walter says that "there is nothing more depressing than a two-year-old in a buggy glued to a screen". I think that an adult pushing a buggy using a mobile phone and ignoring a...
Read full commentPosted in A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2024
Yes, you're right. Any way
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
Yes, you're right. Any way you look at it, it's not good. I don't know what the answers are. Once an avalanche starts falling, you can't stop it. It'll only stop when it's destroyed everything in its path, and hits the bottom, and runs out of...
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I try to remain hopeful. But
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
I try to remain hopeful. But when you see how it's all being driven by the race to the top, and that the gap between the growth of capabilities and the development of safety mechanisms is so huge (1,000 to 1), then it's easy to see how it can...
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Thanks, Di. I think the
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
Thanks, Di. I think the addiction is understandable. It's an essential part of the business model for these platforms - the so-called 'attention economy'. The saying in Silicon Valley is 'If you aren't paying for the product, you are...
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I think of it as a bit of
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
I think of it as a bit of freedom, mate! It's funny, but I had a medical...
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I detest the whole culture of
Posted on Fri, 16 Aug 2024
I detest the whole culture of it, and refuse to have a smart phone. People call me a dinosaur. No, I'm not. Neither am I a lemming. I have a PC with internet connection, which I use when I choose to use it. I have a VPN to protect my privacy...
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Hi Turlough,
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
Hi Turlough,
Thanks for your comment. I had a couple of 'episodes' yesterday with BIG car drivers, which inspired the rant! The area I live in is full of them. I was reading that their numbers have jumped ten-fold globally since 2010,...
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