Making the mistakes so you don’t have to — Underwear I was all of four years old when my mother decided to dress me in some frilly knickers and send me off to Sunday School. I think you call it Bible Class in the USA. Neither of us had any idea that I was autistic with sensory issues. The…

And recycle candle wax while you are at it — A friend gifted me an expensive scented candle. There was still so much wax left when the candle had finished burning, and I couldn’t bring myself to throw it away. I hate waste.

A Challenge — If I wrote a best-selling novel, it wouldn’t be a novel, it would be an autobiography full of failures. I’m going to break the soundtrack down into one song per decade, otherwise, we are all going to be here for a very long time. Age 0–9 subtitled: autistic girl fails…

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Challenge accepted — Terry Pottinger wrote a beautiful poem based on Aristotle’s quote: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Feel free to scroll down to the bottom first and click on the links so you get two fine examples of how to nail the…

Making the mistakes, so you don’t have to — Tyres I learnt how to change a motorcycle tyre the hard way. It was in the days before the internet and YouTube videos, so I did not have a clue. But I had a puncture and a puncture repair kit and figured I could do it. My first mistake was…

$$$$ prize money could be yours. — On I’m a celebrity In the jungle People get to eat Animal testicles Vomit fruit And very little else They face their fears Get covered in muck Get cockroaches in their ears They sleep with rats And snakes and bugs Are forced to climb great heights They get chucked from…

Making the mistakes, so you don’t have to — One of the best things about failure is that there is always room for improvement. I don’t know why people crave success — it is so much harder to work out where to go from there. Society It was 1990, and I had a wealthy friend, David, who was a…

Even The New York Times got it wrong — I am autistic and tend to take things literally. When I first heard the expression “on the spectrum,” this is what I pictured: