My colleague Marion Hersh joined Doug Blecher on his #Autism Stories podcast to recount the history of our #CalmSpaces project - by and for #AutisticElders -, the importance of the sensory environment and also her other project about recommender systems for #blind, partially sighted and #Autistic people.

#Podcast
https://www.autismpersonalcoach.com/autismstories/episode/2cf93776/autism-stories-marion-hersh

Calm Spaces website & forum
https://calmspaces.org

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Need a lift?

Dull or lonely Saturday?

Feeling old? This is for a certain #ActuallyAutistic age.

You may need some #KLFkare

Taste the sunshine through the rain KLF Trak: https://klfkare.com/trak.php

Klick the VIBE.

Follow the #KLF hashtag because we are all Justified Ancients #AutisticOver50

Are #TheKLF with us @actuallyautistic?

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Ya, know.... every time I manage to nab a younger partner (we're talking 20s, 30s), there's a little doubt that arises in my mind.

"What the hell are they seeing in me???? I'm 51. I'm slightly over the obese line, etc."

Then I slap myself in the face. I'd still bed my ex-wife, who is 71 right now, if we had not divorced.

"Get over it, dude! Those kids are more or less like you are!"

They are able to see past what the NT world calls "imperfections." I did it with my ex-wife. She did it with me. Eventually she couldn't do it anymore.

The same goes with me and my subsequent partners. They don't shame me, and I don't shame them.

(Lest you think it goes only one way. It does go both ways. Some of my partners could have been shamed for their physical features, but I don't care about the site of someone's breasts, or dick size, or what have you. Kindness and affection rule the day!)

For the record, it is not just my ex-wife who is older than me that I'd bed. I've been on a date with a 58-year-old. I've hit on people my age or older. Nothing came out of it. There are multiple factors at play here: older people not being into the same things that I am, failures of the imagination, etc.

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#TrueStory: I only sign into my email once a week.

This isn't #DemandAvoidance though I do have that and it is connected. It's a way of managing my #anxiety because emails from certain people are, for me like anxiety landmines that will affect me for days. I keep those people only to email communications by never answering their calls and if they text, I ask them to email.

If I need to stay away from anxiety I'll wait until I am ready.

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I felt happy this morning for at least an hour, yay! 🥳

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Met good NT friend yesterday who enjoys talking about cutting edge #cosmology and other mind bending subjects, as do I.

Before long we were in passionate debate as he tried to explain the #physics of what he said were recent discoveries made using the James Webb telescope which have invalidated Big Bang Theory, and which he said many top physicists had confirmed....

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Home from dog walk including steep climb, chatting to young couple, handling scary family text msg, shopping and carrying it all 400 yards back to my boat past six fishermen while trying to control my dog with all those tempting smells and interesting bags and boxes on *her* towpath, and I'm ...

Tired? Want to slump? But I've done nothing today. 🤦‍♂️

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Any other #ActuallyAutistic
#Endeavour fans? Currently watching S4 Ep1.

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