Obvious Hiatus Is Obvious – I’m starting a Neurodiverse business!

I'm on hiatus to start a business! If you're in the UK and love fidgets, follow me there.

Why You Don’t Fit In With People

Is it weird to be obsessed with not fitting in? The question used to take up most of my brain, especially before my autism diagnosis. I had hostile feelings towards people who seemed happy being different, and spent a lot of time analysing and resenting people who effortlessly made friends and connections. I used to …

On Mondays, We …. Feel Inadequate About Our Shortcomings

On Mondays, we feel inadequate.
We feel like a failure because we're turning up at our "stop-gap" job yet again.

We feel like a failure because we didn't get everything done we wanted to.

We feel like life is passing us by whilst we endlessly fail to achieve the changes we dream of.

You are worthy of existing (No post this week)

This weekend I had no energy, and right now I need my energy for finding work. Normally I'd write something now to make up for the gap. But sometimes you've got to accept the limits on your spoons, and make time for self care, in whatever form you need at that moment. We're worthy even …

5G Conspiracy Theorists Need Kindness Not Hate

The future is never clear, but right now it looks like a stop sign. Last week I couldn't post. Despite being inside almost all of the time, with no pressure to go anywhere or do anything, I had no energy. The world feeling like a crisis zone is taking its toll on all of us. …

This Crisis Is Part of All of Us

This recent health crisis the world is facing feels surreal and inevitable at the same time. We're a closely connected species with masses of technology, but ultimately we're still fragile and biological machines. I've written before that whilst numbers are infinite, humans are not, and that's the limit of our financial economy. We know the …

Tate Attack: When Carers Act As Security, We’re Turning People Into Monsters.

Trigger warning: discussion of disability-hate, autism discrimination, and violence by and against disabled people. Longer read than my normal posts. This week, autism's in the news. Unfortunately, it's attached to a violent young white man with murderous intent. Whilst the child victim faces agonising and slow recovery, from an attack intended to kill him, Jonty …

Do Joke Privileges Exist?

I propose we start acknowledging the privileges of hair-colour, handedness, parents, allergies and TV. The "Straight White Cis Male TM" is a cliche. I declare it's time for exciting new privileges instead! Let's get obscure, let's get myopic and disproportionate, let's get reactionary and ridiculous! I'll start... Being right-handed Not being ginger-haired. Having both parents, …

What You Can’t Do – “The Modern Worker Enjoying His Liberty”

Every week I try to write a post. Try to prove to myself that I'm a writer, a thinker, an activist. Some weeks it is easier than others. Last week, writing poured from me. Not writing anything would have been harder! Other weeks, it's like blood from a tired stone. Being a consumer and a …

Poem & Book Review: “When Breath Becomes Air”

Living in the Moment Take the unexpected track, it's unexpected even to you. Do something different, do something new. Maybe it works out, maybe it won't. it's your choice if you try though, and yours if you don't. Maybe you shouldn't, maybe you should. Try every day though, know that you could. Enjoy what comes …