The past 72 hours have been crazy

It's funny, as I logged on to write this blog, I saw that a stranger had commented on one of my older posts. I started writing as a way to cope back in 2012, but quickly decided to improve the format of my posts in the hope that someone like me might find them and...

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I’m back (first blog in nearly two years)!

I know I don't have a large following on here, so I doubt many people have been wondering where I've been. But for the few of you who have, I'm back! My last blog was posted on 18/11/2023 and it was a part one (sorry if you actually read that and were interested in...

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23 things I want to do in 2023

From the title, you may assume this is a list of new year's resolutions. That is very much not the case. I do think wanting to better ourselves and having the means and motivation to do so is inherently part of what makes us human. But stubbornness and resistance are...

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Hobby-based rabbit holes that I’ve fallen into

One of my autistic traits is that I’m very much an all-in or all-out kind of person. A key example of this is that I can’t watch a TV show unless I see it from start to finish. I simply refuse to dip in and out. Even if it’s a sitcom designed to be viewed as a whole and as individual episodes, I need to see it all. The problem with this is that when I get obsessed, I get truly obsessed. And over the past few years, there are a lot of hobby-based rabbit holes that I’ve fallen into. Things I’ve decided I want to do and spent an absolute fortune on before realising it was the idea I liked and not the actual ‘thing’. So here is a list of everything I’ve wasted my money on, why and whether or not it was worth it.

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The start of the Euros 2020

Ever since I built this site I've stayed very on-brand with what I've written. However, when setting up my dad's website a few months back, I was reminded of something. Once upon a time, writing wasn't just about getting important messages out to the world, it was...

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