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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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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...
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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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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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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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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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A hundred moments in autism - Parallel Play
Monday evening. Mrs Oblong and myself have just finished watching the last episode of Sherwood. It’s an hour to bedtime, but neither of us feels like...
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A hundred moments in autism - A trip to the cinema
I lived for a year or so in London and while I was living in Tulse Hill I went to the cinema at the Elephant and Castle. The Oblong bladder being...
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A hundred moments in autism - Autistic Comedy Night
As a comedy fan, I spent the first 54 years of my life assuming that observational comedy was deliberately unfunny. I have watched hundreds of...
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