It's a miracle I got in

........and probably will hardly manage to again, as I may have forgotten my password ready. After a zillion things going wrong.....including the fact that all my brilliant ideas for a handle were already taken. Great minds. 

I have not been diagnosed and won't be, I don't live in the UK and no doubt more ties to my lovely home country will be cut still further in the next year. 

It was just seen as craziness when I was a kid, in the 1960's. It could be a spectrum thing but it could be something else. The red flags for the A word for me are that I regressed at 18 months and no longer spoke using grammatically correct sentences. Tantrums and obsessions during childhood, being scapegoated at high school and repeatedly being criticised from student years onwards for not engaging in enough eye contact. 

But it is on the other side of the boot too as I teach at a high school for children who wish to specialise in the arts, and many are now getting diagnoses of dyspraxia, dyslexia as well as the odd autism I do feel the need to know how to work with these kids. 

I would love to hear from older people who are only now recognising the hidden thing after all these years. Or from other teachers also confronting similar things.

The most important thing is my art incidentally.

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  • I have just been diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum, at the age of fifty one, two years ago I was diagnosed with Coeliac disease and more or less have handled both on my own.  I would love to meet up with autistic people in Leicester, but have had no response from the 'Monday Club', they are facing cuts due to austerity measures.  Anyway the good thing about being diagnosed is that I can come off anti-depressants after being on them for eighteen years for anxiety and stress, my liver was beginning to complain.  Now I am learning to handle being autistic ally aware, having coped with it unaware since birth.

  • Hi Bardic Poet

    Just saw your post and responded. Leicester is not a million miles from one town I used to live in. We had an art group though only one of us got really noticed at the time and he was asked to design CD covers for a doom metal band. Another good friend went to teach abroad like me and he now self publishes SF on Amazon. 

  • I tried selling handmade crocheted and knitted goods on Etsy and it did not work out, so instead make hand knitted or crocheted items for charity.  I am more of a crafter than an arts person, probably due to being poor at Maths but being very good at English, could not get the idea of perspective or geometric shapes, although I love mandalas and am making dream catchers for friends and family.  

  • Syria was a pretty stable place before the 2010's. Assad kept the tensions between the Alawites, Sunnis and Christians to a minimum. The Kurds got oppressed though, but that situation was much better than the horror we have now. Just like Iran was before Carter dropped the ball so badly. That actually set off a chain of events that led to the first war against Iraq and the chain of events that led to todays situation in the whole region.

    Did they show Trumpton in Hungary?Grinning

    The internet is a strange phenomenon in general considering how people tend to herd together. It's also easier to play people off against each other. One aspect of someones political view can draw them to a place where they buy into a whole ideology. Memes can be attractive as a way of drawing people in, then the next thing you know they are subscribing to an ideology. You have all the points of view and facts out there, especially in todays "age of information" but people will be drawn to a place where all their bias is confirmed in an echo chamber.

    I find the rise of ideologues in the past few years disturbing, having a grandparent from each side who has suffered under both communism and facism. The use of social media and some of the terminology that has been fostered is disturbing also.

    The pipelines were always the main object of everything. Just like the tensions in the South China Sea and the Pacific. They won't let the conflicts and incursions end for a while. It's all about market manipulation.

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  • Syria was a pretty stable place before the 2010's. Assad kept the tensions between the Alawites, Sunnis and Christians to a minimum. The Kurds got oppressed though, but that situation was much better than the horror we have now. Just like Iran was before Carter dropped the ball so badly. That actually set off a chain of events that led to the first war against Iraq and the chain of events that led to todays situation in the whole region.

    Did they show Trumpton in Hungary?Grinning

    The internet is a strange phenomenon in general considering how people tend to herd together. It's also easier to play people off against each other. One aspect of someones political view can draw them to a place where they buy into a whole ideology. Memes can be attractive as a way of drawing people in, then the next thing you know they are subscribing to an ideology. You have all the points of view and facts out there, especially in todays "age of information" but people will be drawn to a place where all their bias is confirmed in an echo chamber.

    I find the rise of ideologues in the past few years disturbing, having a grandparent from each side who has suffered under both communism and facism. The use of social media and some of the terminology that has been fostered is disturbing also.

    The pipelines were always the main object of everything. Just like the tensions in the South China Sea and the Pacific. They won't let the conflicts and incursions end for a while. It's all about market manipulation.

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