Bush turkey 1 – Autistic man 0
The Australian brush turkey, or bush turkey, or scrub turkey is not a beautiful bird. But, as I have learnt recently, it possesses many other qualities that demand one sits…
Trivial matters
Is Autism the reason I’m so “careful” with money?
This week hasn’t gone at all the way I’d planned it to – thanks to the NDIS making a royal mess of my application for a simple plan variation, and…
The joy and despair of a weekend of two halves
This isn’t the story I intended to post today. But then the weekend happened and I felt compelled to start writing something new. Basically, Saturday I felt depressed. I don’t…
The Pixies to 100 Gecs: Music therapy for the burned out Autistic soul
As I type, I’m listening to 100 Gecs (‘Hollywood Baby’…er, now ‘757’, gotta type more, listen less!), my latest favourite band. I first came across ‘the Gecs’ on Triple J…
The Ekka: an Autistic person’s perspective of this iconic event
There are few events as iconically ‘Queensland’ as the Ekka – the State’s largest agricultural show where tens of thousands of families in and around Brisbane flock annually to the…
A tale of two trips to the mountains
Last December, my wife and I took a trip to the rural town of Montville on the Blackall Range in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. It was a cabin in the…
Inward opening toilet doors are a germaphobe’s nightmare
Before I discovered I’m Autistic, I thought that maybe I was OCD (the idea of being Autistic didn’t even exist!). That’s because I like everything in its place, I’m very…
A is for Autism, but a capital A is even better
As someone who has taught English and written, both creatively and to earn a living, for almost 40 years, I have a vested interest in language and the way that…
My most popular post turned me off social media – again
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS BLOG POST CONTAINS SNIPPETS OF POSTS FROM TWITTER THAT CONTAIN LANGUAGE THAT MAY BE TRIGGERING OR DISTRESSING FOR SOME. A funny thing happened over the weekend: one…
Dance like no one’s watching: my first ‘real’ blog post
So it’s Friday, and that means it’s the end of another week, and that means that time has well and truly come loose from the chain. I mean, it’s out…
What’s in a name anyway?
Let me pose you a riddle: When is a noun not a noun? Here’s a funny dog cartoon for you to look at while you consider the answer… Who doesn’t…