Grandfather, retired, liberal Quaker and Buddhist outlook and spirituality, Arsenal supporter, ex charity worker (YMCA), socialist, miss being in the EU, love good photographs.
Header: Four young lions lying in long grass, gazing into mid distance, waiting for another female to join them from the pride they were just forced to leave.
I suppose if there is one always recurring bit of advice that I try to hold onto for my own self and for others who are coming to grips with being autistic, it's this
Learn to be kind and gentle with yourself. You are almost undoubtedly traumatized by your needs being unmet for most of your life. You have long felt that your very survival in this world has been precarious. You've not been able to thrive. You've been coping coping coping endlessly. And coping more,. And coping after the coping.
My autism is not what you observe.
It is what I experience.
It is mine. It is me.
My body, my mind, my personality are autistic. I am autistic.
What I consider a close runner-up to Sandy Denny is Julie Covington, here singing Don't Cry For Me Argentina. Beyond this No 1 hit, fame was elusive, in her acting career too. She deserved much more. Enjoy. 6/n
To my mind, the most beautiful of all choral works, the Sanctus from the St Cecelia Mass by Gounod. I sat sobbing in the Royal Albert Hall when I first heard this just after 4 minutes. Enjoy. 4/n
The best voice rendering the best songwriter. Sandy Denny of Fairport Convention singing “I’ll keep it with mine” a Bob Dylan composition. From their 1969 album “What we did on our holidays” where there’s also a great Joni Mitchell cover. Enjoy. 3/n
A dreadful dream last night. I was in a group studying Psychosynthesis, training to be a counsellor, and somebody mentioned it was hard to get to know me because I avoided eye contact. Most of the group agreed, so I had to go through an exercise in the middle of the group attempting to make direct eye contact with each person. Woke screaming inside. But this dream happened to me 30 years ago. I still have the notes. Never occurred to anyone I might be autistic — including me.
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