My Life

July 3, 2013
A quote from We Borrow the Earth: an intimate portrait of the gypsy folk tradition and culture. It's been popular and has whizzed around the Facebook network. The Romani gypsy aspie is here to stay.


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Curse of the ISH

March 14, 2013

The ISH is out to get you. You know the phrase: 'We'll be back at 7.30pm-ish'. And the 7.30pm becomes 9pm. Boundaries get stretched beyond their normal limits, stretched where they shouldn’t normally go. Waiting, in the cold and the dark in the car for our 8-year-old son to be delivered back from a school outing, with no telephone call to say they're so late and no apology when they finally arrive. The curse of the ISH is upon us.

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All Rain and Wind

September 17, 2011
So today it's been rain and wind again, but not so much as before. I'd like to keep a diary here to help with writing and all the thoughts and reflections I have. I think that's a very good idea. I think it's an excellent idea. I think my ancestors would agree with that, collected in the hills around me as they are. What wonderful discoveries we can make when we live the natural life and think of the deeper past where nature was able to be herself. But aren't the rain and wind ancestors too? ...
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Autistic attention to detail! - is noticing the unnoticeable superfluous, or is it more important than we think?

August 3, 2011

You tell your dog you’re taking him for a walk. Then you disappear for an hour to do something else, and when you return, you expect him to recognise that, like you, he thinks that no time has passed at all! You haven’t noticed that anything’s wrong, but you can bet your life your dog has!

Being autistic sometimes involves noticing what others don't notice. The smaller details often leap out at you while the bigger stuff gets left behind. And wile you're busy getting obsessed with pe...
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Never so blind...

April 7, 2011
We are never so blind as when we cannot see what is being said, never so deaf as when we can't hear what is being shown. As an autistic synaesthete I am able to pay attention to intricate, complex detail which otherwise goes unseen and unheard, except within those largely untouchable hidden regions which many NTs believe they can hide. Trust me. I will know where you are coming from. 
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Hidden Corners...

April 6, 2011
Neurotypicals rarely look in the corners of their minds, hearts and souls. They sometimes can't even see the corners, where they can daily store pointless information. We aspies keep our corners clean and tidy and know exactly what fills them. That is what troubles us about life and makes us feel afraid: there are too many hidden corners in the NT world.
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I'm glad I have this disability ...

April 4, 2011
"The world has a fast-growing problematic disability, which forges bonds in families, causes people to communicate in direct and clear ways, cuts down meaningless social interaction, pushes people to the limit with learning about themselves, whilst making them work together to make a better world. It’s called autism, and I can’t see anything wrong with it, can you? Boy I’m glad I also have this disability!" 

 


 







 


 


 


 


 


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About Me


Patrick Jasper Lee Here I am often on the telephone connecting this world to the otherworld. Here are my observations, reflections & dreams about the way it all is.

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