It’s January. Time to knock some stereotypes on the head. Will I make a difference? Who knows? Perhaps if even a fifth of the people following my Blog shared this post on social media … Will you be amongst that group?

Shall we start by making one thing absolutely clear: I AM AUTISTIC. It is not something from which I suffer, and it is not preventable, caused by vaccines or my personal favourite, because I hadn’t been a good (insert religious persuasion here).

My brain is wired differently. A computer running Linux and a computer running Windows can both run a word processing program, but they do so slightly differently.

So what does it mean, being autistic? What springs to mind when you say the word? In my sister’s case, it was something shameful. Yet my father, who was in the throes of dementia, was cool with the fact that I was the same daughter he knew.

For me? I don’t like sudden noises, or shrill noises. Imagine if you had a screaming playground of kids around you constantly? That’s how it can seem to my brain. That is why you may see a lot of autistics wearing headphones or earbuds. Okay, the whole world seems to wear them, but the whole world is not autistic. How I learn something new can be different. I can pick up languages relatively quickly, but learning a new system may take a bit longer, particularly if I am taught in a haphazard manner.

For example, if you start a new job, would you rather have a training plan where you cross off each new skill or procedure? Or would you be okay with your trainer picking a topic at random, or even worse saying they had covered something without giving you the chance to confirm it?

Hang on a sec, all that is not that different from non-autistics … Let’s revisit that one later, shall we?

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