Oh yes, definitely to most of those, apart from that my parents are very religious so they don’t drink at all or keep any alcohol in the house. So it’s a day of sport on TV with the sound on full blast, while my mum discusses my recent achievements and tells me I got them because she prayed for them, rather than throug…

Yay! Another Christmas hater! I hate Christmas even more because my favourite time of year is Hallowe’en, and Christmas planning starts so early thst it is starting to encroach on that too!

Does anyone else really hate Christmas? It’s still a few weeks away but I’m already getting the dread - can’t get away from the shop displays, email spam and TV christmas ads and it’s giving me the itch

We’ve had our attic boarded out, so I can finally clear some space in my wardrobe for things I actually want to wear! I’ve bought some of those hanging garment boxes movers use, so I can store occasional wearup there like interview suits, dresses for the yearly black tie event, funeral outfits etc.

I’d rather that our Royal Family get politically involved and actually earn their keep, instead of opening banks and popping out too many kids. Meghan has been a blast of fresh air - held down a career until her mid thirties and actually has an opinion on injustice and mistreatment of vulnerable people. 

Titanic would have bern kinda creepy with Matthew McConaughey IMHO. He’s 6 years older than Leo and doesn’t have his baby face - Leo is so attractive because he represents a youthful innocence and freedom to forge his own path. In essence they’re equals as she has no assets of her own either. They go heavy on the fact …

My cats are probably my biggest extravagance and yet my biggest joy. They cost us about £50 per month in insurance and vetplan, and about £30 per month to get them the best healthy food we can. Also another £150 in vet bills and drugs this month to fix a bladder issue, but I would spend my last penny on them to keep th…

Ugh, how did I forget about him?! Too busy snorting at this response to their blind item..

He’s so fucking gross. Did you see the story in popbitch about his offer to Lila Moss? And yet Kate still hangs out with him - they must have a shit-ton of dirt on each other cos there’s no way I’d let that creepy motherfucker near my 15 year old in the first place.

I love Spotify for that reason - I’m stuck in my ways re music, but when I follow all of my favourite 90s bands and albums, it suggests playlists of stuff I’d never have listened to if I’d have stuck to CDs or downloads. I’ve also adopted the milennial idea of reducing my ‘stuff’ and relying on rentals and the cloud - …

Spot-on comment - although people who were too young to remember these albums coming out can listen to it now, they’ll never get the context which made them so great at the time. Not just political climate or a new innovative sound, but also lack of technology.... Not having music at our fingertips meant that we were f…

I love this even more now! I can’t imagine what this casserole smells like, but my best guess is sweaty socks...

I almost laughed at the grossness, but then remembered the dinners we had growing up poor where mum gave us Heinz Scotch Broth poured over oven chips (fries).

Whoops one more thing - look out for free discount booklets at the train stations with 2 for 1 vouchers for attractions, you just need to present a national rail train ticket with the voucher (even if it’s a cheap one stop ticket to london for a couple of quid that you’ve never used). For a lot of attractions you would…

Yep the shard has lifts as it’s so high up, but do your research just in case one is out of service or something :-) if I recall correctly, the London Eye has a ramp option instead of stairs but then the moving pods are at floor level at the top of that (and move very very slowly) to make it more accessible. All…

Awesome! Most of our museums are still free - my favourite is the Victoria and Albert (V&A) museum due to the fashion exhibitions. If you can, do museums during the week and avoid like hell at the weekend - London parents use them like a free playground, so it’s taken me 2 hours to queue for the natural history museum …

LOL! I always assumed they were called mansize because they were for cleaning up cum - whose nose needs a tissue that massive???

Exactly! I and other people I know with autism are very self-conscious about fitting in and work really hard on adaptive behaviours. I’ve had a year of therapy and I also grew up developing my own coping strategies to avoid my more disruptive traits (and it’s not fashionable to say this, but bring smacked by my parents…

People have been taking the piss for a while. I’ve experienced horrendous behaviour from people that they have passed off as undiagnosed ‘autistic tendencies’... even though I’m actually autistic and know their behaviour has nothing to do with autism, and everything to do with being an arsehole. It’s annoying because…

And they post articles like this - https://www.the-pool.com/news-views/latest-news/2018/41/Dignity-for-dead-women-campaign-on-media-reporting-of-domestic-violence