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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20234 min read
Confessions of a mask
"Masks! Masks! Let us blind Eros, For who could bear his radiand face?" Rainer Maria Rilke We are just now closing in on the Christmas...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20232 min read
Autopia
Autopia! No, it is not a neologism! Autopia is a track that exists in the Disney amusement park in the USA. But Autopia can also be a...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20233 min read
Has anyone seen my key?
Most of us were born in a house. Whether it's a flat, a house or any other type of dwelling, with more or less living conditions, most...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20234 min read
How to train your healthcare professional?
Do you think it's normal that my GP said I was joking when I told him I suspected I was on the autism spectrum? says Cláudia (fictitious...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20231 min read
Alexa, how do I feel?
Alexa is the virtual assistant, developed by Amazon, which makes it possible to entertain and inform. Alexa as a conversational...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20235 min read
Source of happiness
I think this trough is located somewhere in Parque da Paz in Almada. But surely similar fountains can be found in other parks, located in...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20233 min read
Chat box
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to find in there! as we heard in Forrest Gump. I confess that I've had...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20232 min read
I'm tired of being normal
What in life have you tried more than anything else? I asked him. To be normal! he answered me immediately. I can almost say that I tried...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20234 min read
Alignments
I know more autistic men than women! I heard one of these days. I also know a lot of other things in greater numbers and that's not why...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20233 min read
#canyouseeme
Can you see? How do you know? How do you know that your eyes are not deceiving you? What if what you say you see are things you would...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20232 min read
Where do I sit?
Where do I sit? This is usually one of the questions some of the adult autistic people ask when they enter the office. But it is not the...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20233 min read
Inside their autistic minds
The BBC launched this February the documentary Inside our autistic minds by Chris Packham. What is this programme about? It's simple!...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20232 min read
In my time pharmacy was spelt with ph!!!
In my day, pharmacy was spelled with a ph! As well as, there was also the designation of Asperger's Syndrome, as a condition within the...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20234 min read
Extreme ideas
“How easy, it would be to show me how you feel More than words is all you have to do to make it real Then you wouldn't have to say that...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20232 min read
Drawing the voice
For some time in my life I had no voice of my own. I was allowed to speak, sometimes out of courtesy and politeness, but the final word...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20233 min read
Rigid! Who? Me!?
Autistic people have a marked behavioural rigidity, you would hear. And people with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder are...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20233 min read
The homeless autism
A few years ago I wondered where adult autistic people were? I even said that they must have some kind of Peter Pan Syndrome! In other...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20234 min read
The F-R-A of autism
The F-R-A of autism is not just when autistic young people are looking to apply for Higher Education. Or when they try to successfully...
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pedrorodrigues
Jun 12, 20235 min read
No worries mate!
Some of you will quickly recognise the photograph, as well as the phrase No worries mate ! Rest assured that I will not be talking about...
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pedrorodrigues
Oct 9, 20224 min read
Chasing lights
It was my first time in Norway. As soon as I arrived in Tromso my wish was to go chasing the aurora borealis. I had already seen them on...
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