The most OK time of the year
As an autistic person Christmas is complex. How am I facing it this year?
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Happy Queermas?
Let’s put a pin in Christmas for now. I’m half way through and I’m at the stage all I want for Christmas is not be disabled, able to just do stuff and not suffer from depression. My brain does not make it easy to do anything. I’
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Happy Queermas
After spending the last few weeks wondering, “What is Christmas? Why is Christmas? Who is Christmas?” I bumped into a phrase via BBC 6 Music. Queermas. My brain lit up. Queermas! By Jove, they’re onto something. Would it be possible to dump the issues with Christmas and instead celebrate
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What even is this time of year?
As I write this it is the 2nd day of Advent, aka 2nd December… one google later Wait, it’s not. Advent started on 27th November. It’s the 6th day of advent. So, Advent Calendars start on the 1st of December and countdown to Christmas. But Advent, the Christian
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Seasons Greetings
Merry Christmas If you celebrate Christmas I hope you have a fun time with those you care for. If you don’t I hope you have a peaceful time filled with things you love. beam out * 2021 from above: Our top aerial photos of the year | Reuters.com * School Report
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The most wonderful time of the year
hello camera This week’s photos are from a day trip to Liverpool back when that was something I did. Sunrise over the Mersey to return at dusk in the fog. You can get prints of the photos in this weeks newsletter on my print store or you can tip
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Seasons Greetings
Seasons Greetings. To borrow a message from a user on a Discord I’m on. You are wonderful. It’s the Christmas season. It’s complex. I’m writing this on the Winter Solstice. Yesterday was the longest night. Today marks the time when the nights get shorter and the
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Christmasticle - It's a Christmas Listicle
Since my dad died 4 years ago I’ve accidentally become a fan of Nordic Christmas. In Iceland in 2017 we drank Tuborg Julebryg for New Year and watched the fireworks outside the Hallgrímskirkja church in Reykjavík. I love their liquorice infused chocolate. I treat myself to a bar of
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Ho. Ho. Ho.
Hello there. How are you? Please be ok and remember that it’s ok if you’re not ok. I am… mulls not ok. One of the things I like about writing is using it to process my thoughts. It helps to write about something instead of over-thinking and
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Christmas. It's complex.
hello computer Christmas. What is Christmas? Webster’s dictionary defines it as; a Christian feast on December 25 or among some Eastern Orthodox Christians on January 7 that commemorates the birth of Christ and is usually observed as a legal holiday I was raised Catholic but I found religion to
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Christmas complexity
hello friend This is the end of a week, month, year and decade. How are you? Was Christmas ok? We spent it in a pocket universe. We normally spend it at my in-laws who live around 350 miles away. Christmas for me is difficult because I’m taken away
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Questioning Christmas
hello friend Christmas will soon be upon us. Every year I question it. It’s never been easy for me and I understand that part of those issues is down to being autistic. Christmas food isn’t for me. I don’t do wet food so eating dry overcooked Christmas