my latest problem
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Contents
- Preamble
- A sample of communication
- Personal interests
- Personal characteristics
1 Preamble
2 A sample of communication
- In the spirit of letting you know what you might decide to take on, you have a choice of pages to skim or read.
- As a social psychologist, I have worked in academe in the context of tourism development. My abnormal childhood and later life were neurotypical until I moved into educational management in 1977. In 1988, I was retired on ill-health grounds. My wife and I then lived in various countries and I was on short-term and year-long contracts until retiring to look after my wife in 2000.
- We moved to Ross in 2014. Time until 2015 included two years as Ross Scouts Chaiman, and major upsets involving British Legion, a dom-care company here, and the local Memory Service.. Slightly less-than-major upsets include three specialist care hotels, District Nurses, and Occupational Therapists.
- The local Memory Service is here. All you might do is see the extent of the output. 14 hidden - 13 public pages.
- Letter from 2g here (not hidden). Non-person-centred Caree assessment 17 August 2015 here. My contribution reduced the impersonalisation. 2g didn't like my Person-centred Tests Home page here or my response to its letters
- The latest upset concerns several webpages which you might skim here. They are deliberately atypical since most of my pages are very long. Having set it up, I now have no influence on the project.
- The Ross DMC was offered to the church on the site and its only vicar has taken it over to the extent of excluding me from the decision-making body. Long before Xmas, I pushed for publicity. I went solo with this. I was not consulted over a half page on the DMC in the Gazette 25 Jan. I have retaliated with this and the final version is a whitewash. 1 Feb p4. I suspect the editor consulted the vicar.
- See top right of p 5. Hope you will attend. I am considering exposing their little game.
- We have been going to something similar to the Ross DMC at the Leominster DMC here 1/7 since April last year. There are many pages of criticism of the system which you don't need to see.
- An email is here. D is the vicar, MHSG and MHG = the local MH Steering Group here. Phil S is its Chair. He lives in Liverpool and knows very little of Ross. He constantly says he hasn't done this or that due to pressure of other work. Its a constant temptation to confront him at the meetings. What I did was to send a round robin saying minutes should always arrive well in advance of the day before any meeting. Have also called for Terms of Ref to be discussed.
- AP is a church member.
- Multiple pages here and arising might be skimmed on the basis of one in three or so.
- In despair, I ensured that our GP and I talked for an hour, just before Xmas. The page you now see is typically long so I just showed him Item 5 here. He said it is no wonder that the vicar has raised concern. He then said "It's been a long time coming. I am sorry about that. You are autistic." That page was originally here for the attention of the vicar and a member of its Council.
3 Personal interests
Within the limited amount of reading so far, what is apparent is that aspies can be involved in unusual interests. Also, that the interest are sporadic.
- Haven't seen a carer website, let alone one like this. OCD with a positive outcome? Perhaps, but masses of negativity in it - inevitable? Far too much of my non-carer time is spent on this site.
- Play early Spanish classical guitar pieces and play Flamenco guitar
- Play the bagpipe here here & here Gave up the clarinet and flute to fingering similarity.
- Rarely play the bagpipe. June at Hereford Cathedral. Burns at Leominster Dementia Centre.
- Rarely play ukulele, harmonica (sometimes with guitar), recorder, two-finger piano. Can't read music.
- Use a variety of instruments here. Only occasionally on Tuesdays for 30 mins. Was regular over three years.
- Astrophysics. Currently reading Brian Cox's door-stopper here. Operate a big card-index of many such books. Ross has a Science Society. I started a new group but it didn't last two meetings. One day I will develop Oortism. (After developing oughtism, foughtism, haughtism, noughtism, taughtism, wroughtism.)
- DIY - now & then. V difficult as need to keep an eye on my wife because of here and here. One result here.
4 Personal characteristics
Some have been outlined
- Within the limited amount of reading so far, what is apparent is that aspies cannot interpret body-language within non-verbal communication (NVC). Before 1.3, I taught NVC. The male in the article is far too jolly here. No doubt in France.
- I can deliver an outlandish short rendition (seemingly anecdotal) and be believed
- The latest communication with the vicar includes a request to be allowed to do the cleaning
- The stories begin with my carer-life's Mission A to persuade people to pronounce Teresa's name. more
- If aspies leave projects dangling, then read Persecutor- Victim page here and English here.
- more later
