What is the last thing you learned? You never stop learning. The main thing I have learnt lately is just how resilient R and I are. We have learnt patience, and how to smile and laugh, despite the fact that everything is going wrong around you. So we went to bed a bit late last… Continue reading Resilience and that drip
Tag: creative writing
You look a little pale
What is one question you hate to be asked? Explain. How are you? How's you pain level? How are you feeling? These are the questions I dread from those I don't know because my autistic brain wants to answer them properly. I have only just recently learnt that you are meant to say that you… Continue reading You look a little pale
Hay and Pain
How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Many times I have found myself almost a passive character in my own story; watching as I have been steered by circumstance or others into a path that I never considered. One of these occurred after my first degree. The job centre… Continue reading Hay and Pain
First Words
You're writing your autobiography. What's your opening sentence? My first words are tricky. You see I think I did - Mum and Dad and want and give - , but then I hit a problem. I stopped speaking. I probably came very close to being non-verbal. My parents checked my hearing and such and there… Continue reading First Words
THE THREE
What are three objects you couldn't live without? A pen. A pencil. A sketchbook. With those I can create and work. With those I can disappear into another world. With those I can stim. With those I can live. I can smile. I can cry. I can laugh. I can write. I can draw. A… Continue reading THE THREE
Diagnosis
What experiences in life helped you grow the most? I lived the first 38 years of my life thinking I was mad and lazy and wrong and just not meant to be. I worked differently. I didn't see the world the same. I couldn't hold down a real job, I couldn't hold a boyfriend that… Continue reading Diagnosis
Job…
Do you enjoy your job? In what sense? I think asking if you enjoy your job is sectioning off part of your life that maybe you don't need to. Is my job as a cook, cleaner, housekeeper, stock taker, meal planner, present buyer, clothes buyer, fish carer, gardener, writer, artist or support, both mentally and… Continue reading Job…
Fate…
Do you believe in fate/destiny? Do I believe in fate? I'm not sure except that R and I bumped into each other so many times... Although maybe it was more destiny. Fate means you have no control but destiny is just a prearranged date or meeting that has to happen. Potentially, I was not fated… Continue reading Fate…
Now, RUN
Describe the last difficult "goodbye" you said. This is a bit personal and contains violence so if you are easily worried please read no further but the story I am about to write about is very much in the past and I have had therapy for. It can no longer harm me or those around… Continue reading Now, RUN
Who would I be?
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why? I'm not really a celebrity follower... And I don't really follow sport, except curling in the winter Olympics. I like music but don't really have one musician I'm an avid fan of. Really I don't hold anyone in a place… Continue reading Who would I be?
Kate Murray - Cleaver 