A snapshot of a pale-looking 36 year old white autistic gay man, wearing black-rimmed glasses and a yellow hoodie. The man's eyebrows are raised, his mouth closed in a diagonal-esque shape.

Monday 7th October 2024: Going to the Doctor – Again (one – no – two days late due to medical reasons)

Trigger warnings for mentions of serious diseases and medical incompetence. Hi everyone, Today, I’d like to focus on an experience we find ourselves in whenever we want to interact with the medical system: the blank stare. I’ll explain. The reason I didn’t write a blog last week was simple: I couldn’t. A few days before,..

Monday 8th May 2023: What’s Happening to my Body? #7386

Hi everyone, So, here’s the thing. I’m back in burnout land. It’s not a nice place. I’m not sure what’s going on or what caused it. But here it is. I’m burned out again. You’ll notice I’m oversharing in this blog because, well; burned out, I guess! I do know that, once again, I didn’t..

Monday 24th April 2023: I Like Joriks (Random Thoughts)

Hi everybody! Hope you’re doing great and that you’re surviving the month of blue hell on the internet that is Autism “awareness” month. I’ve been pretty aware all my life, honestly. It’s exhausting to meet the nonsense halfway, especially now companies are using algorithms to pick out who might be autistic due to the pages..

Monday 16th January 2023: Happy New London!

Hi everyone! Ok, I’m NOT going to apologise. I know it’s been ages, but it has been Christmas, which I celebrated with my beautiful partner and his wonderful family. Shout out to the Ukranians who came to live with his parents last year (despite the best efforts of the Boris Johnson government) and made an..

Monday 7th November 2022: Autistic and… In Therapy?

Hello everybody, Yup, this blog was supposed to be published in September. Then in October, twice. It wasn’t. I was exhausted last weekend, the week before also, after doing a speaking event and the week before was also bit of a mess. For the first one this November, I’m going to go for one a..

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