Good Morning Blues

At some point last week, I went to sleep and the next morning I woke up feeling awful for no reason and haven't been able to shake it off. This isn't going to be my best post, but I feel like I need to get my feelings down.  I was pretty excited about the start …

The Other Side of the Internet

The internet can be a great thing, it can educate and bring people together. The internet has given people with Asperger's and other conditions like myself a platform for self expression. It has given us ways to spread awareness around disability and mental health as well as many other world issues, at a previously unprecedented level. It has given …

The Long Road Home

This short poem is basically the accumulation of my mental state over the past few weeks and months. I've been feeling a little rough to be honest, but only in the last two weeks or so have I really began to regain the will to feel better, the will to learn to cope with my …

Love in Every Colour – A Poem on Marriage Equality

This blog is mainly about Autism and Mental Health, but I am passionate about promoting equality for all people. A year has just past since the decisive Marriage Equality Referendum in Ireland, held on May 22nd 2015, in which the Irish people voted to give the same equal marriage rights to everyone in this nation. I felt …

David Snape Show 16/5/16 – Listen right now — David Snape and Friends – The place to show off your hidden talents

I'd like to say a huge thank you to David Snape for featuring my short story, I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier, on his radio show as blog post of the week! David's blog is a huge source of talent and is well worth checking out. You can listen back to the …

An Asperger’s Talk For School

Well, the bad new is I'm sick again and the good news is the bad news means I have time to post this. I call that a lose-win situation! 😀 I think I may have mentioned before on my blog that I moved schools last September. I'd rather not go into that too much online. There …

Autism Spectrum Disorders and Diet

Apologies for recent lack of posts; I've been busy with school and anytime I had free time to write, I was working on a play (more on that another time) or the odd bit of poetry. But fear not dear readers, I have not forgotten ye! April is Autism Awareness Month and I've decided as …

100 Followers!

I just checked my blog stats and was very excited to see that I now have one hundred followers! I didn't expect to have so many readers as I currently do. I set up this blog both as therapy for myself but also in the hopes that my words could educate and inspire others. I …

Climbing a Horse Chestnut Tree

This is a poem I wrote some time ago in which I tried to capture the happiness of a singular, simple moment in time; a day I spent climbing trees with a very close friend, but also a reflection on mental health and the importance of interdependence. I have to remind myself; I can't deal …

Talking To Myself

This is a song I wrote this week in which I was trying to encompass how I was feeling at the time. I write a lot about my mental health. The song is the product of several streams of consciousness; my dark and sometimes suicidal thoughts and how they present themselves as voices in my …