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Culture, identity, Asperger's & Bipolar II, through the eyes of a mixed-race, expat family...

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Reading: Teleportation for the Soul.

Reading: Teleportation for the Soul.

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[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen I read I slip behind a curtain…

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Autism and Friendship - Flying Into The Windowpane

Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

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Wanting To Go Back

Wanting To Go Back

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Why Is Blogging No Fun Anymore?

Why Is Blogging No Fun Anymore?

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“If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism”

“If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism”

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Why This Writer Needs Other Writers What happens when self-doubt gets a foothold? Here I am, back in the blogging chair. My plan to nix other writing commitments (no frivolous blog posts or freebie feature articles - I iz a serious writer now) and pour all my creativity into ‘The Book’ didn't pan out as I imagined.

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Growing Up Girl: Sexual Assault As Standard

Growing Up Girl: Sexual Assault As Standard

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A Knight To Remember - Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament

A Knight To Remember – Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament

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A Book, a Bereavement, and a Betrayal

A Book, a Bereavement, and a Betrayal

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Grandad’s Ghost, or, How To Fuck Up A Funeral

Grandad’s Ghost, or, How To Fuck Up A Funeral

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Why An Autism Diagnosis Is Like Finding Out You’re Adopted

Why An Autism Diagnosis Is Like Finding Out You’re Adopted

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Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

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How do you know your interracial marriage will work?

How do you know your interracial marriage will work?

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How People With Autism Fake It

How People With Autism Fake It

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Making A Meal Of Ramadan Ramadan is here again with its sawm (fast) and salat (prayer) timetables, in-store date pyramids, and politically correct acknowledgements from world leaders.

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Doing Autism Differently

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An Apologist's Apology

An Apologist’s Apology

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  Since leaving Islam I’ve been troubled by a kind of mental dyspepsia. An occasional discomfiting bubble bursts through the weightlessness that supplanted those discarded unattainable standards I measured myself by for so long. The bubbles are memories that, to me at least, are as toe-curlingly excruciating as re-reading your teenage diary in your thirties.

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