Christmas is often described as the nicest time of the year. For me, it isn’t. This piece explores how obligation, tradition, and neurodivergent nervous systems can turn togetherness into something draining rather than connecting.
Tag: autism
Non verbal communication – The Nightmare!
It’s been a while since I last posted about how I perceive my autism. This time, a deeper dive into one of its biggest pitfalls — probably the biggest one for me. non verbal communication You know, that mysterious 80% of all communication that apparently happens through small muscles in our face and body. Those…
Rant Against the Overseas Orange Baboon 2.0
My friends thought my rant was too kind. Hence I asked ChatGPT to create a more punchy one. And oh yeah! ChatGPT delivers! Donald J. Trump — the self-proclaimed genius who discovered that autism is caused by… paracetamol. Yes, you read that right. The same paracetamol millions of people use daily without issue. The same…
Rant Against The Overseas Orange Baboon
Yes, this is a direct rant against the Overseas Orange Baboon, a.k.a. Donald J. Trump. Our make-up orange carrot stated this week that he had found the root cause of autism: Tylenol (more commonly known here in Europe as paracetamol). Yes, according to Trump there is a direct link between paracetamol and the prevalence of…
Things my brain does… Doomsday prepping
I don’t own a bunker. At least, not officially. What I do have is an autistic brain that refuses to stop at the government’s 72-hour emergency kit advice. My head instantly asks: “Okay, but what if the power is out for 14 days? In January? What if the lake bursts its banks? What if the…
School: Autistic Edition — The User Manual I Never Got
Introduction The title is a pretty good description of how I felt about my school years: The User Manual I Never Got. I can vividly remember many times when I thought, “I wish I had known all of this beforehand.”“Can’t I do this year again? Because now I know what is expected.”
Meet My Brain: WTF… It Works HOW?!
Preface This is the first real deep dive into how my brain works. You’ll notice that I’m trying more and more to fit in my Brain Factory™ analogy into my stories. Enjoy! Visual Thinkers I’ve started reading a book by Temple Grandin called Visual Thinkers. In it, she broadly categorizes brains into two ends of…
Etched in Regret
I have so many regrets, in so many different situations. Situations I didn’t read properly, or where I missed certain social cues. Situations where I said something really inappropriate, offending someone in the process. Or the exact opposite — not saying or doing something when I absolutely should have. Again letting people down.
Kernel Panic #2 — A deal’s a deal — until it isn’t
Apparently, ‘We have a deal’ translates to ‘Let’s confuse the system’ Another story in the Kernel Panic series — once again set in my early youth. I still remember it clearly: it was late spring or early summer. I can recall the weather, the clothes I was wearing, and everything around me.
Kernel Panic #1 — The First I Know Of
And as I said earlier this week — it’s time to start the very first Kernel Panic post in this series. The earliest moment my brain crashed trying to make sense of a simple question. Honest answer, unexpected result — and the birth of my internal codebase. This is actually the earliest kernel panic I…