Published on 12, July, 2020
Iv decided to do a forum on my wildlife holidays where I can tell you about my holiday rather than just sending pictures
cause iv been on lots of them this year rather than only sending photos. also proper trips il tell you about and add photos to go with it on this post aswell. cause it will be easyer and better for me but is also for holidays cause im going on lots of holidays this year and it deserves its own thread in this sense.
my first holiday I went on this year was Wales. I went to Snowdonia near the national park
we saw a lamma and a pony
with the view we got from the cottage we stayed in was of the sea
Jackdaws perched on the buildings when we watched tv we went for a walk and I got great pictures of the moutains
you could see them on the beach outline at the beach the waves I saw a literally called gray heron fly past
the waves crashed against the rocks and became fully submerged until they broke and forced its way over. my long lens saved my life by getting me up close enough to photograph the waders and I saw Great crested grebes.
back at the cottage herring gulls at Jackdaws
the next day we went to the waterfalls I saw yellow gorse.
the water level was high but not flooded. it was a adventure and the gorse made it look colourful
it was massive then we went down the mountain the next day we went to the sea again and I saw a cormerent. there was lots of bladder wrack which is a type of seaweed.
seaweed are actualy a type of algae. some can surve out the water for a certain period of time. others dont survive as well it depends on the type cause theres different types of seaweed.
this one is normaly mistake for seaweed but is actualy a type of animal instead
in July
im very used to wildlife watching in the uk and while I have been to menorca I havnt wildlife watched there cause I didnt have an interest in Wildlife then so this was my first time wildlife watching in a different country.
I allways have to wear ear defenders when i go to the air port but they had disability asistance. I had to improvise cause the person that supports me that went with me hasnt gone on holiday with me before and didnt know what to say or do with my sensory challanges at the airport. the person that was with me said she thinks il be fine but I knew cause of my autism cant deal with crowds so I said I have autism and I dont like crowds so would it be ok to go where its less busy or quiter and so she took me through. there was a point where we wernt sure if I had to take my ear defenders off at the part where you have to walk through and them see if you got metal on you so I asked the lady there if I could keep them on and she went off to ask the person behind the thing you have to walk through. I was very anxious at this point. it was time to put our items on the coveyerbelt and walk through the metal thing. The person with me for the holiday and me still didnt know so I was panicing inside and i was told to take them off by the person taking me which i was reluctant to do but the plaine lady came over and thumbed up us saying not to take them off and that i can keep them on and we went through. the flight was delayed by an hour. but it was no ones fault cause they had to help somone who couldnt walk onto the plane. so we walked and stopped every 5 minutes so people were joking about that and inpatient at the same time. eventually we got on though at last. I filmed the take off and we went over the bay of biscay on the way to Tenerife
when landing I saw mount tede from above the clouds.
the next day I saw a canarian chiffchaff
and I saw a Spanish sparrow for the first time. they were breeding at the hotel.
but one of my biggest highlights was snorkeling for the very first time
and the dolphins which i got to see for the very first time
and mount tede a active volcano with many species only found on that mountain I saw crystal on a rock
that was the last day. the next day we went on a trip but when it came to packing bags for the trip. I put my bag with the plastic bag on it ontop of my suitcase then gave it to her with the plastic bag on it but took it off and thought that she was going to put the bag in cause it didnt only have my stuff in the bag and as far as I knew the plastic bag was in the boot but at some point in the journey I wondered where the bag was and thought it might be in the boot cause i couldnt see it in the back. we checked the boot and it wasnt there.
my ear defenders got left behind which was problomatic cause the person with me wasnt willing to go back and get the ear defenders and soon we had to go to the air port. I was highly anxious and I found it diffucult getting her to understand the why it is important enough that we do have to go back anf get them we bought some silenceing headphones as an emergancy cause otherwise I wouldnt of been able to get on the plane. we went through disability asisstance. the plane was delayed by a couple of hours and we wernt able to get on until midnight. a teenager had a go in a wheelchair and a little boy was going up and down a slope behind me which i found acted as visual stimulation and made my anxiety worse. it isnt thetre fault its just cause im autistic but thanfuly things did cam down and at 12 o'clock we lined up and got on the plane and came back to the uk by 4 or 5 oclock in the morning.
Hi Zo, I'm sorry to hear that you are unhappy where you live. It must be very tough for you. I guess that your mum is worried that you'll end up with nowhere. Places are full up, and it must be very hard for them to match needs with what a place can do. And then there is geography on top of all that - your ideal place may be in Newcastle (I've made that up). None of those reasons make this any less difficult for you, though.
I hope that 'mega' phone man gets board of it soon.
I hope that you week is getting easier.
yes she is also worried in case its further away from home cause then i wouldnt be able to see them as much she is also worried it wont allways br the same peoplle coming in and that that it will be different staff each time.
its not her worrys that prevented me from telling the social worker but how she responded to her worrys about it cause back a couple of years ago when I said I waa going to tell the social worker im not happy where my money is going and want to move she said no your not and dis ecourgaed me so its how she responded to her worrys that i meant by her atitude
I have been looking for somewhere on my laptop
but the problom that i have is i have found is that living with people i dont know until i get to know them doesnt work with me i have to get to know people properly first before i live with them .
i also need to either be in a house with people i know and who know me or no one at all. another thing is that i need to stay at a place to get an idea and see what its like and how it works then make a decition and not just visit it once. one visit isnt enough to know what a place is really like cause you wont be a visitor when you stay. you know what its like as a visitor but not actualy staying there.
unfortunatly my autism makes it challangeing living with other people. in 2016 I was diagnosed with a additional disorder to go with my autism and other disorders that im born with which was new to me at the time. in 2016 the person who diagnosed me was the same person who diagnosed me with depression in 2013 and the same person that refered me here who came and saw me sometimes here and didnt do anyhting when i told her i wasnt happy here.
but n this case it will of been 2 or 3 years later cause 2016 is the year i saw her again. although i didnt know i would. at this point being older and being here longer I told the lady the same thing but rather than her coming over here i went over to her cause i wasnt in my bedroom all day and every day ane never going out like i used to be. now I was out and about so went to see her instead. I told her im not happy here and why since she was the one that helped move me here at my Mums request. the meetings we had wernt about that but other things but I thought it was important to tell her since she helped move me to where i am
the report that came back from the meeting of course went through the sessions i had with her for what i saw her for but it did have a short referance to the conversation beforehand about not being happy where i am and why but rather than saying what i said it said what she thought she said that autism makes living with others challangeing and that with me she thinks i should ideally live on my own
the only thing is before coming to a place like where i am now no one exsplained to me what terms i may come across when i leave college and had no idea what care placements there are what they are or what support options i had.
when i was at college I wanted to live at home and go to live at a acomodation where I can live with people i know like friends or aquantances or people i know if not at least when i left college. but at the same time have someone to help us with what support we need.
i thought that is what was written down cause i didnt know what a term meant the person i told wrote down for what i want to do after college or understand what the term meant that they wrote down either cause no one exsplained it to me
when i told them that living with friends is what i wanted i meant living with people i know not people i dont know so there was a clear mis understanding which i wouldnt of known ocured due to not being talked through what terms mean and what support options are available
being older and having been to support acomodation for a long time i eventualy learned what was meant and what the terms meant and it wasnt what i said i wanted to do after i leave college. regardless though ideally i should of been talked through everything and made sure that i understood beforehand and with the process where i transitioned from college everything was too rushed. I dont know if any other autistic people wernt talked through transitioning from college to what decitions and choices you can have after other than jobs
the dilema i have is I have done some research and I have found out what support options for people with autism and learning disabilitys are available I came across it while looking at places for me to move to. and finding out terms and what they mean a care home usualy involves a care home setting where its not just living with others but multiple factors involved in how care homes work and from my exsperiance aswell as knoledge of the ups and downs of care homes a care home option even though people like the idea of it due to the needs that i have and me as an individual arnt for me. I wont want to live with others my autism makes it too diffucult and its not just that either theres many factors to do with care homes why a care home isnt for me even though you get support. supported living which people seem to be fond of being the next step again is a care home I wont want to live with others but i wont want to live on my own either. neither are really the best option. my family i dont mind even though its hard but people i dont know challanges my autism more than living with people iv allways known and allways known me and comes with too many risks as you dont know what its like to live with them. i also dont like the idea of people getting money from you even though its to take care of you. people that look after me dont get enough money when you dont want to go out since you want to go out but not as much as everyone else and then theres new people so you end up with different people and theres many more factors
I have alot of exsperiance and know how care homes work before i came to one i didnt but now I do now I know it wasnt the best option. i think all of this could of been avoided if people say wrote down all the options people with autism and learning disability have and not just one or two and exsplained what the terms meant before people started the whole process into getting me into a care home particularly this one but that aside now im older my goals have changed and cause a care home isnt right for me and other options would of been better to consider and have looked into those also cause of that
nope it hasnt worn off yet he hasnt got bored of it.
for holidays I havnt got any other holidays aside from this last one yet acording to Mum so this will probably be the last one for now I think when things are more relaxed i will do the rest of the holiday. they said they havnt booked another one yet