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Where Are We Now? Ted Kaczynski and Technological Society

By HarryC on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

Ted Kaczynski, otherwise known as the 'Unabomber', died in June 2023 - twenty-five years into his eight life sentences in prison for his crimes...

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Taking Care 6 (i)

By HarryC on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

It didn't take me long to settle down into the job and become a respected team member at the day centre. It was the same at Remus Lodge, too. I was...

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What is Autism? A brief guide...

By HarryC on Fri, 13 Sep 2024

This week, I and some peers began our second year of delivering 'autism' workshops to 4th-year medical students at the local university...

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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...

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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. ...

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Enjoyed this. I know that

Posted on Sun, 14 Oct 2018

Enjoyed this. I know that feeling. Arrivals are often a disappointment.

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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...

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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-...

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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...

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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...

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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...