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Unfriending & unfollowing
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Unfriending & unfollowingOn my Facebook friends list, I have an eclectic mix of people. Some family, some friends, some I have connected to through business… all with varying degrees of interaction. I have accepted or given friend requests for different reasons. Recently, there was one contact I had met at a business event who posted rubbish about…
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To Autism Support Services
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: To Autism Support ServicesLet me introduce myself. My name is Melissa, and at the time of writing, I’m 46 years old. I am autistic and ADHD, diagnosed at the age of 44. I feel you are letting me, and others like me, down, mostly because we don’t fit in with your understanding of who an autistic person is,…
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Just Add Water
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Just Add WaterWhen I had my first baby, my mum gave me a piece of advice. ‘Whenever the baby is cranky, and has been fed, isn’t tired or sick, just add water.’ What she meant was to give the baby a bath, or water play when a toddler, or a drink of water. You know what? This…
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Happy 70th Birthday to my Mum
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Happy 70th Birthday to my MumToday is my mum’s 70th birthday. She’s having a dinner to celebrate and I’m not there. I will see her tomorrow, but for today, I’m not going to see her. Why? She lives a 2-hour drive away from me. It’s also a workday, so trying to juggle everything was simply not possible. In the past,…
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Staring at a blank page
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Staring at a blank pageOne of the reasons I realised that this 100 day blogging challenge has been, well, challenging, is that I can sit down to write with the best intentions, however if I don’t have an idea of what to write, nothing will come. This is just how my brain works. I can’t force the ideas, though…
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Thoughts on Peer Pressure
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Thoughts on Peer PressureI saw a post on Instagram this morning talking about peer pressure and how we often find it baffling. You can read the post here. Growing up, I found peer pressure completely baffling. I was told the rules, for example, don’t smoke cigarettes, especially under 18. I also had experience of my grandma smoking and…
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Believe Myself
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Believe MyselfI saw a post on Facebook where someone was talking about not only believing IN themself, but also believing themself. This post resonated with me so strongly as I have learned not to believe myself. Believing in myself has been something that I do often. I set a goal and a plan and say ‘in…
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Writing Stories
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Writing StoriesDuring the week, I started looking at all the stories I’ve written recently. Here are the stats: The numbers above are only stories I’ve written during writers groups since they went online during 2020. I am working out what to do with this information and how these stories can start earning their keep… Not only…
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Running Out of Steam…
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Running Out of Steam…The other week, I posted about how I don’t operate to rewards & punishment. I also mentioned that I’m meant to be doing a 100 day challenge for writing here… Well, what I knew would happen has happened. I have run out of steam. I am exhausted and struggling to come up with ideas for…
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Too many books…
Categories: UncategorizedContinue Reading: Too many books…I have a problem… There are way too many books being published and I simply can’t keep up! I have so many books on my shelves that I want to read, but haven’t had the time to read them all. It doesn’t help that I keep adding books to the list. It doesn’t help that…