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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 (6) (i)
Then there were days when different things happened. Days when dad would take him out on the lorry when he did forage deliveries around the city and...
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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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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...
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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...
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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!...
Read full commentPosted in Never Enough?
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...
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