Biography

Cherry

Gift: A Son's Story (extract) - Reflection

I'm continuing with the final draft of 'Gift' - my memoir/journal based on my time as my mother's full-time carer for the last few months of her life...
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Cherry

A hundred moments in autism - The Whale Cafe revisited

The Whale Cafe revisited I’m back in the lunch queue at the Whale Cafe. Now you may be thinking, that as I regularly get my lunch at the Whale Cafe,...
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Cherry

A hundred moments in autism - I am Hangry

I am hangry. Autists can be prone to anger, a symptom of exhaustion from constant masking and frustration on not understanding NT communication and...
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Cherry

A hundred moments in autism - The job interview

Job interviews are not a great place for an autist to find themselves. Read any guide on how to do a good job interview and they will stress the...
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Cherry

A hundred moments in autism - A good place to dump a Terrence

Place. Place is important to autists. There are places we feel immediately uncomfortable - noise, lights, structure, people, something nothing...
Cherry

A hundred moments in autism - I am Blair-proof

Labour Party Conference Bournemouth 2003. The Labour government under Tony Blair is facing crisis over his support for George Bush’s war in Iraq. I...
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Cherry

A hundred moments in autism - Reading Nuerotribes

The chaos of 190 newbie medical students descending to collect their theatre clogs cannot be described . It’s freshers week meets large-scale...
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A hundred moments in autism - In which I manacle my legs together in my underpants

Autists are often clumsy and I am no exception. I am at the Edinburgh Fringe with my wife. It is her day off and she is spending the evening with her...
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Cherry

A hundred moments in autism - The zinc and chrome plating problem (2)

The previous ‘moment’ explained the speed of my thinking, but it didn’t explain the next moment in the chain, the reason why I didn’t try harder to...
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Cherry

A hundred moments in autism - The zinc and chrome plating problem

My summer job at the end of my first year at university was as a zinc and chrome plater in an electronics factory. It was good money for a summer job...
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