Professionally Autistic
Hi everyone, Sorry it’s been two months. I was pretty busy, most with the medication reduction, which is now finally over! I kept myself off the internet, in order to allow my brain to stabilise. However, I also have been able to join the National Tutoring Programme, which will allow me to leave the benefits...
Hi everyone, This week saw some seriously good news. I heard that the government will amend the Mental Health Act to reduce the sectioning of Britons of colour, as well as removing autism and learning disabilities as reasons to detain someone against their will; potentially indefinitely. See here for more information: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/13/mental-health-act-reforms-black-people-sectioned It shows that,...
What a week. So this week my partner and I had to shelter in place. It’s not been great. I didn’t realise how much I needed to be outside. Since, at least in mainstream culture, the use of the term “freedom” has often stood for “the freedom of the strong to destroy the vulnerable” (see...
Hi everyone! Happy new year. Or, rather, as happy a year as possible at the moment. We’re all learning to manage our expectations. This week’s blog is focussed once again on the pandemic, it’s about being ill. If you haven’t read it: Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill is an amazing essay I first read in...
Hi everyone! Sorry about not having the blog out last week – I had a brain freeze and needed to rest. The day before was my 33rd birthday. It’s been a big year for me, as it has been for everyone. The world looks like a very different place now than it did in 2019,...
CW: discussions of severe mental distress and suicidal ideation. Hi everyone, I know, I know, it’s been far too long. These four weeks I haven’t had an entry were due to the first few weeks of a new job. That new job is gone now. I’ve had to apply for Universal Credit. It’s ironic, that...
Hello everyone! It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I’ve kept myself busy. I have a new job, teaching German and French at a school not too far away from me. Yes, it’s the one I interviewed for a month ago. I was supposed to start tomorrow, but I was called in to do supply teaching...
Hi everybody! So this week was another intense one. I taught every day, I tutored, I worked as a PA and I have two job interviews. The picture I’m including is from the second interview, on my way on the train. I have no idea what will happen, but I had a great time when...
Hi everyone! Apologies for the lack of a blog the past two weekends. Two weeks ago, I was celebrating my partner’s 25th birthday with trips to Bath and Oxford on subsequent days. Last weekend I was so tired I couldn’t speak. I tried to write a blog but I didn’t make enough sense to push...
Hi everyone! So, here it is. I’ve moved house. I’m actually here. This week has been interesting but very busy. I’m behind on a few things, but I have today to catch up on missing bits and pieces. I commuted to and back from work for the first time, which was stressful – I woke...
