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20 Feb

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#Compartmentalisation.
A personal perspective.

I go walking to get rid of tensions and anxieties. It’s how I emotionally regulate.

On yesterday’s walk my mobile phone rang (I keep it switched on for safety reasons).

It was my GP.

#AllAutistics
#autistic
#autism

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I wasn’t altogether surprised when I saw who it was. I’m expecting to get called for vaccination.

But taking a call from my GP while out on the hills muddled things up.

That’s the kind of thing I go walking to escape from.

Once the query was resolved my walk continued.

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I found myself thinking about how I like to compartmentalise things, and keep them separate.

I like tomato ketchup and eggs separately, but not together.

I’ve never felt comfortable using my mobile phone for work.

The mushiness of blurred boundaries is tricky for me.

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@NortherlyRose

19 Feb

@brian_bilston

#Thread.

Waiting.
A personal autistic perspective.

‘IN THE WAITING ROOM

Two hours she sat
and clutched at straws
and the ticket
from the machine.

So what, she thought,
when all my life,
I've been waiting
to be seen.’

@brian_bilston

#autism
#autistic
#AllAutistics

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“Patience is a virtue.”
I was told as a child.
“Good things come to those who wait.”

But do they?

And why is waiting so difficult?

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The first thing I remember waiting for was Christmas Day.

Everything about our family celebration was comfortably predictable. Except the presents.

Secrecy was maintained in order not to “spoil the surprise”. So I was in a state of anxious suspense throughout December.

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18 Feb

#VirtualDogWalk

A walk through the woods with birdsong.

Spring was in the air today.
We were greeted by a bird that sounded like a squeaky wheel.

#DogsOfTwitter
#BorderTerrier
#walking

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We got to a clearing and stopped to take a look around.

Izzy had a good sniff of the air.

#woodland
#winter
#walk

We saw a huge tree with its roots half exposed where the river bank has crumbled away.

I hope it survives.

#DailyExercise
#walking
#river

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14 Feb

#Thread

What Glenda taught me about love.

We first met when I was 14. Glenda was in her 30s then.

At my age Glenda had fallen off her bike and hit her head on the kerb.

Crashing headaches followed, with extreme rages. They said a short stay in hospital would cure her.

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The hospital Glenda was sent to wasn’t a general one. It was a psychiatric hospital.

She was on a ward full of girls and women. Heavily sedated much of the time.

Glenda used to say it wasn’t all bad. Some of the staff showed her kindnesses.

But she kept on running away.

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Glenda used to run home to her family. She crept into the outhouse in the early hours, whispering to the dog: “don’t make a noise, it’s only me, Glenda”.

Then she curled up and slept for a while before being found and taken back to hospital.

There seemed to be no end to it.

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@NortherlyRose

12 Feb

#Thread

Last night I made a pledge.

The crisis in mental health services is no secret. Lives have been lost and ruined. Family and friends left bereft with grief.

We’re told repeatedly lessons have been learnt. But have they?

It’s time to make good trouble about this.

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‘Out of sight, out of mind’ or so the saying goes. That’s how people with severe mental illness were dealt with in my childhood.

The psychiatric hospital, in its forbidding Victorian building, was somewhere you got ‘put away’.

I volunteered there. It was full of misery.

2/

But how are things now? It’s five decades since I first met people suffering terribly because mental health services ignored them, or abused them.

With all the advances in our understanding of mental health surely things are very different these days?

I wish I could say so.

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@NortherlyRose

11 Feb

I lost another ferrule off my hiking stick up on the hills today, but it was worth it!
The snow is still really thick and powdery and the sun was bright.

#VirtualDogWalk
#DogsOfTwitter
#BorderTerrier

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I wondered why Izzy was lagging behind instead of pushing on in front like she normally does.

Then I realised it was the depth of the snow. She was doing the sensible thing and following in my footsteps!

#walking
#uksnow
#DailyExercise

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Once the snow got less deep Izzy was back out in front again with a waggy tail.

There’s no doubt about it, Izzy loves going on walks!

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#Durham
#February
#PublicFootpath

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