Warren Mayocchi's Blog

Today a music video, literally inspired by events from my own life, was released. The band is Lyria: Aline Happ (vocals), Rod Wolf (guitar), Thiago Zig (bass), Thiago Mateu (drums). The album is Immersion, the song is track #4, “The Rain”. It is all due to the band members and their musical talents the song […]

to live I die filling graves with the unborn flowers of thoughts unknown questions not asked an opus never composed the haunting smell of those petals inspire my death song to be one of life passion sparkles as the pale echos of what will never be whisper through the garden on my graveyard by

we see not what is but who we are in the mirror of life by

“There is nothing new under the sun” is a funny phrase. Everything was new at least once, so it cannot be a true statement. But I understand the intent and human experience does form relatable pathways, particularly when there are shared elements, like being in the autism spectrum. A research article was bought to my […]

Scepticism is a valued human trait and we have celebrated it in our folklore in various ways. The Boy Who Cried Wolf warns us not to raise unneeded alarm. Chicken Little warns of the consequences in overreacting. Nobody wants to be taken for a fool. Even in Australia we have the literary character Hanrahan, an […]

Having just watched Before the Flood it is disheartening to see another warning to ourselves of the damage we are doing to ourselves. The movie is a call to action to correct our damaging climate change course. Let us be clear, Earth will exist regardless of whether we work to retain our lifestyle or perhaps […]

Over the past months I have been working on a book project with my father – Gordon Mayocchi. My great-great Uncle, Edmund Juniper, wrote the story of his early years before he died in 1985. Edmund moved from England to Australia in 1908 with his rather large family. Above there is a photo from ~1918 […]

My book was launched on 30 April 2016. The people who attended heard me give a talk on “What does it mean to be human?”. Then the book was formally launched by Dr Winnie Lau, she described described six aspects a person will observe as they read the book: Knowledge and scientific information on the […]

What does it mean to be human? It is one of those impossible questions people have contemplated for years with no clear answer. It is a question I have considered in my life. Why? People around me appeared to be having a collective human experience from which I was strangely separate. While what you see […]

For the third time I went through an autism diagnosis process today, all in the interests of science. They used an approach called the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), so this was the third unique diagnosis method I have experienced. After that, I spent time talking with a psychiatrist, and then did many tests. It […]