Recent content by ElectricalEngineer

happy birthday...

I had a day of rest yesterday, lots of rest today and doing well. lots of Adult stuff to get done this year as my mother becomes more and more frail, to the point of moving from her home to a care home

Please do whatever you need to do to protect the matress against accidents etc and to make life as trouble free for the hottel staffn as you can. Hours are long and pay is not great. While they have probably seen most things, and doubtless there are stories told in the privacy of the staff...

A good cry can do one good. it gives space to practice handling emotions I think it possible setting up in lottle space to meet and process emotion in a safe ad controlled way can be a combination of wisdom and self care. Some people do it by watching a tear jerker type of film.

Indeed, living alone means a lot regarding aceptance and enjoyment of one's quirks and so forth. I suspect there being my pushchair next to my bed is something of a giveaway that regression plays a part in the way I relax in the privacy of my own home.

I notice I stim when becoming stressed or anxious, or sometimes just in a setting which is outside my familiar or comfortable zone. Example, sitting round the table in an unstructured social setting, I notice my leg starts bouncing on the ball of my foot. Whole body pressure is a wonderful...

Indeed. And it was securituy concerns and advice from the Metropolitan Police which were the reason Transport for London pulled Uber's private hire licence in the capital

Lego was my go to toy, and I wonder how many engineering careers were born from lego

I can vouch for the bona fides of Pick and Mix and its organisers, and I supply the event with a little fleet of adult pushcahirs

I use three main sources - Ebay , mumstore.co.uk and www.specialneedspushchairs.co.uk From specil needs pushchairs I bought a Trotter T1800 which is a regular fixture at an event in the UK called LittleBigLand. The other ones I have bought anr MacLaren Mjor special needs pushchairs which I then...

Hello there, another person on the spectrum here, started suspecting in 2014 and was assessed late 2016 aged 53. One of the cohort Sarah Hendrickx teases gently with the label of the "Feral Autistics", the ones which made it through life on our wits, winging it here, perhaps a few ears notched...

I would look very carefully at the width of the seat as this would be the big deal breaker. Parting with that amount of money and then not being able to fit into the stroller is going to be an unhappy experience indeed. As a guide, anything narrower than 390mm is unlikely to be a comfortable...

"Watership Down"

Yes, sometimes just a doodle in a boring meeting, sometimes I just start of and let the drawing take its own way

Just about hangin on is a wee stuffed cat made by my aunty Mo when i was two or three, plus a teddy bear made in Norn ireland which was a present from my grandma around the same time.