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A Conventionally Unconventional Marriage: Autism Week Blog Five
Since my teens I’ve only had three relationship modes: Very unhappily single and engaged in a pointless infatuation with an inappropriate person. Varyingly happily single (whilst wondering how on earth people actually manage to read or transmit signals sufficiently well to enter into relationships or hook ups) . Or in a monogamous relationship with a…
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But tell us about your worst autistic day…
There hasn’t been much suffering yet in your week of autism blogs Kate. I mean, people will say you’re suffering from autism, that you’ve got a disease (aarrgh, neither thing is true, though yes, both have been said to me), but you haven’t really conveyed that yet. Why not? Are you one of those celebratory…
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Autism Now is Like Radio Two 20 Years Ago
Quantum physicist Max Planck knew a thing or two about new scientific paradigms- some of his discoveries, based on observations, meant that classical theories about thermodynamics had to be reconstructed from the ground up. He said “New scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its…
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Autistic at a Wedding, the Doctors and a Gig
Autism is Not a Thing I realise not everyone knows that autism isn’t a thing. So I’ll just reiterate that. You can’t isolate it under a microscope and go “Aha! There’s some autism!”. It’s a way of being in the world and processing the world, which is why most autistic adults polled (by the National…
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The Undiagnosed Autistic People
I’m giving myself permission to blog about autism every day this week. There is SO much I could say and usually I don’t say it. There are other “messages” I’m supposed to transmit like- “Come see my show about Northern women” or “I’m really normal for a poet, honest” or “Do book me for that…
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National Poetry Day-Change Poems
It will look like I’m everywhere today as I was one of twelve poets commissioned to write a poem about their local area. The theme? Change. Can’t think of any national situations in which that’s particularly relevant at that moment… I haven’t got an actual gig though today, though I’ll be doing radio interviews. I’m…
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On Boredom
Maybe nearly everything in my life is because I have a lower boredom threshold than most people. I will not talk about the neurotransmitters norepinephrine or dopamine next, interesting though I find them. I will not talk about running around a classroom as a little girl because I didn’t do that. I sat quietly. Running…
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After Olivia Laing
I read Olivia Laing’s Crudo and Deborah Levy’s The Cost of Living and I am not them or Kathy Acker or Virginia Woolf or Gordon Burn (whose prize they’re both nominated for, not the former presenter of The Krypton Factor), but I can feel a sudden urge for stream of consciousness. I haven’t swum for…
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Notes after Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette
I’ve not yet watched Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette on Netflix because I watched it live in London earlier this year, after trying desperately and failing to see it in Edinburgh last summer. I’m bad at watching things twice, though this would repay it I know. This is a good interview with her in the Guardian. So…
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The Quirking Class Manifesto
It’s okay not to want what most other people want, in the way that they want it. Applying the word “Failure” is a means for some people to stop other people doing certain things in a certain way. Applying the word “Success” is a means for some people to keep other people doing certain things…
Kate Fox. Writer, Broadcaster and Performer: Where There's Muck, There's Bras. 