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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 (2)
"Wait 'til his dad gets home," nan said. "He'll have something to say." ... Those were the words that scared him more than any. More than the...
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Tom All Alone (1)
Their house was halfway along, and from the bay window in the upstairs sitting room he could view the street from one end to the other. He could see...
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Autistic Man!
Loosely-based on George Carlin's 'Modern Man' performance poem, I wrote this for a poetry slam a couple of years ago. It needs a rapid-fire delivery...
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Taking Care 6 (iii)
After three months in the job, I had my first supervision. Malcolm was my appointed supervisor. I was dreading it. "It's just a formality, really,"...
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Seeing
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SEEING I wish I could explain to you how it is that when I see a sunrise on a shattered landscape an empty shoe washed up on a beach a blackbird...
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Thanks, Jack. Yeah... there
Posted on Sat, 10 Nov 2018
Thanks, Jack. Yeah... there are lots of misconceptions about Asperger's, even among trained people in the field. Lacking empathy, emotionally cold, etc. People struggle with Aspies for lots of reasons - principally because they don't follow...
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (Push)
Thanks all for your
Posted on Sun, 28 Oct 2018
Thanks all for your encouraging comments. Much of the book is composed of episodes, divided into chapters and parts. The first section leads up to the illness, the second is about mum's brief recovery and those months we spent together. ...
Read full commentPosted in Gift: A Son's Story (short extract 3)
Enjoyed this. I know that
Posted on Sun, 14 Oct 2018
Enjoyed this. I know that feeling. Arrivals are often a disappointment.
Read full commentPosted in On Platform Two of Basingstoke Station One Night in October
Thanks, everyone.
Posted on Sat, 06 Oct 2018
Thanks, everyone.
Indeed, I could have added.... had I not been a member of ABCTales... had I not first heard about the site from a friend... had I not started writing in the first place...
Read full commentPosted in How writing (and a cat called Daisy) may have saved my life...
Hello again, Di,
Posted on Sat, 29 Sep 2018
Hello again, Di,
Every autistic person is unique with what they can and cannot do. We have a savant at work who can tell you the day of the week that you were born on, but he can't tie his shoe laces and he has the emotional age of a 6-...
Read full commentPosted in A Martian in the Closet
Hope it could be helpful for
Posted on Sat, 29 Sep 2018
Hope it could be helpful for you, Di.
Parents can be so cruel. What on earth is the father worried about? That his kid will grow up being thought of as 'retarded'? Does he not realise the potential harm he could do? Would he put a cat...
Read full commentPosted in A Martian in the Closet
This captures how I'm feeling
Posted on Sun, 30 Sep 2018
This captures how I'm feeling myself, Jane. I love this time of year... but I miss the summer, too. I especially liked the final stanza:
Put away summer
Seal the songs and colours
In a box, to leaven...
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Wonderful! Never lose that
Posted on Sun, 30 Sep 2018
Wonderful! Never lose that inner child. I doubt you will, though
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Love it - especially that
Posted on Sat, 29 Sep 2018
Love it - especially that second stanza. I well remember my ex and I looking askance at one another when James Naughtie on the Today programme introduced a certain Culture Secretary!
Succinctly and poignantly put. Had me nodding...
Read full commentPosted in This Is Love
I like this. An interesting
Posted on Sat, 29 Sep 2018
I like this. An interesting analogy. Those sudden blow-outs, too. And I've never found a puncture outfit that's worked for love.
New loves, though? New tyres? There can still be hope. So, maybe not a 'sad' poem, but a reflective one...
Read full commentPosted in A Sad Poem
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