This is what they said me when they diagnosed my autism. And "Oh. Ok." was my answer. And this is how this (second) history began. While I was coming home, I love to say I cried due to the sound of the train, but the true is that I cried due to my diagnosis. Passing... Continue Reading →
I know some people think I am childish. I know. It can be my aspect.I look much younger than the years I have. This is a feature that I have often observed in autistic people. And I move in a particular way (I know this too ...), and sometimes I move like a child. For... Continue Reading →
Everyone has always told me: "Don't always tell ALL the truth, because then people get offended". But this seems crazy to me: people say they want to know the truth, and when you tell them, they take offense. Autistic people are very honest. The problem with the society is that she does not expect the... Continue Reading →
1st January 2020 has gone, and I think at what I'll be able to do in this new year. I usually don't make predictions, because expectations generate illusions and illusions generate disappointments, sooner or later, but this year I really hope to find the energy to do new things. I will have a competition to... Continue Reading →
A lot of times I feel of being invisible, like these days of Christmas. Autistic people are more exposed to loneliness than other people because sometimes they are not very able to take contact or to do friendship. I am not very able to take contact with people: I never know how. Or I am... Continue Reading →
I know I'm going into a minefield, but I am not proud of my autism. Sometimes, I feel not good with this idea of no-proud-of-my-autism, but please understand what I mean: autism caused me a lot of troubles. I have a lot of difficult with the process of friendship, I have a sensory process disorder,... Continue Reading →
When it happens that I take a misstep, or it happens that something, in a friendship relationship, changes, I need much more time than other people. Very often people do not understand why I need all this time, and so they either take offense and write me very sad messages, or they continue to write... Continue Reading →
OK. I am not a great ambassador and I always say something wrong, or too much honest. OK. I don't love noisy places and to go out with 2 or 3 people at time because I am in difficult with following all their thoughts. Ooookkkk. Sometimes I need to stay alone to recharge. Ok. Byt... Continue Reading →
In one past work, my ex colleagues called me "rain man". When I decided to communicate them my diagnosis, only one people said me "I'm sorry for what I said". Other people said "And now? What do you want from me?". When I explained that I knew that I didn't understand them and that, in... Continue Reading →
I know many autistic people and many families of autistic people and unfortunately, sooner or later, one of the biggest concerns is loneliness. Does autism produce loneliness? Well, my answer is: Yes and no. In effect, I understood that it happens something of very logical: 1) autistic people need moments in which to "recover" from... Continue Reading →
I get up every day at the same time (6:15), sit down and have breakfast with milk and biscuits. I stay for breakfast until 7, then I make the bed, I tidy the room, I wash me, I get dressed and at 7.30 I leave the house after arranging the chairs. If I don't put... Continue Reading →
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