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Kevin Marman

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.  Over the last twenty or so years, I've won some writing prizes for short fiction, poetry and playwriting.  In 2013, I published my first novel, 'In the Day'.  Looking at it now, I can see all sorts of things I would change - but I suppose that shows progress.  I also have a collection of short fiction, 'Sacred Shirts', which was published in 2024.

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, and lots of books.

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Tom Tom Turnaround (5) (ii)

It was a hard decision. But a month later saw her sailing out of Liverpool on the Royal George with everything she owned in the world crammed into a...
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Tom Tom Turnaround (5) (i)

As Tom got older, they would sometimes find different things to do in the evenings. Mum might sit him on her lap in the back room, and they'd try to...
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Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Reflection

I'm continuing with the final draft of 'Gift' - my memoir/journal based on my time as my mother's full-time carer for the last few months of her life...
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On Becoming Human Again

Oh goodness, how I wish that the Russians, or Chinese or North Koreans, or whoever would take out all the mobile networks so that everyone you see in...
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Dogsbody (3)

After the pub job, my money soon dried up. I was back to making calls and going through the local papers. One evening, Mr Watson – a tall elderly man...
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95 of my comments have received 104 Great Feedback votes

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Yes, I've experienced some of

Posted on Mon, 23 Sep 2024

Yes, I've experienced some of that.  When I was first referred to a psychiatrist to discuss the issue, he said to me 'You can't be autistic because you aren't flapping your hands and rocking in your chair.'  So again, it was using his '...

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Posted in A hundred moments in autism - Reading Nuerotribes

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I only found out yesterday

Posted on Mon, 23 Sep 2024

I only found out yesterday that Steve Silberman had died.  I was shocked as he was so young - and not much older than myself.  'Neurotribes' was the first book about autism I read after my diagnosis.  Great book.  I especially loved the first...

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Climate Change

Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

Thanks, Di.  I was going to put that in, but wanted to focus on the tech itself and was worried about length (close to word count).  You are absolutely right, though.  The data centres that power the internet are huge already and are growing with...

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It is a rant really, though. 

Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

It is a rant really, though.  It just defeats me.  I keep telling myself to drop it, focus on something else, feel happy again.  But it's just always there, like this huge monster lurking in the shadows.  And I also keep thinking 'What happens if...

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It was written with tongue

Posted on Fri, 20 Sep 2024

It was written with tongue planted firmly in cheek!  Having said that, it was an attempt to challenge some misconceptions and stereotypes... and poke a bit of fun at attitudes.

Yes, it means different things to different people - sadly, so...

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Okay... here's the SoundCloud

Posted on Fri, 20 Sep 2024

Okay... here's the SoundCloud file.  Best I can do, I'm afraid.  It lacks the dynamic of a stage performance.

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Yes, absolutely.  That stigma

Posted on Sun, 15 Sep 2024

Yes, absolutely.  That stigma is, thankfully, being broken down.  But it's still there.

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Thank you, Jenny.  I'm

Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

Thank you, Jenny.  I'm grateful for this comment - and I agree so much with what you say.  I was a child of the '60s.  They were tough times.  But I still can't help but look back on my life and think I've been lucky, and lived it without this '...

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Absolutely.  And they almost

Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

Absolutely.  And they almost resolutely ignore that.  Corporations like Amazon and Google, too, who use our buildings and infrastructure and get away with paying no or little tax.  It defeats me how it's allowed to happen.  I guess it comes down...

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I can hear Tom in every word

Posted on Sun, 15 Sep 2024

I can hear Tom in every word - in that 'The Piano Has Been Drinking' voice!

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