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Autistically Me
My Blog
Welcome to my ramble filled blog on this corner of the interweb. I don't have a set schedule for when I update this, I mostly use it as an online processing diary type thing. And unless I know the people mentioned would be ok with their names being used, all names included within any blog post, are fake. But the people behind the fake names are 100% real. Enjoy reading thoughts and lessons from my brain
Beth Woolley
Jul 2, 20246 min read
I'm too much (again)
Date: 3rd July Well how the mighty have fallen. And by mighty, I mean me and my wonderful tendency to see the best in people and dream of...
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Beth Woolley
Feb 14, 20244 min read
What am I doing with my life?
Date 14th Feb 2024 So that student conference at my uni resulted in a fairly major confidence crisis for me that now has me seriously...
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Beth Woolley
Feb 11, 20244 min read
How do I do this disclosure thing right?
Date: 11th Feb 2024 I feel like there is a lot of responsibility on my shoulders in my new role and I'm not a lecturer. But I'll be...
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Beth Woolley
Jan 29, 20246 min read
The versions of me that died
Date: 29th Jan 2024 In therapy there's this theory/tool called Transactional Analysis and Ego States. I find it really interesting to...
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Beth Woolley
Jan 26, 20248 min read
Anger, grief and fear
Date: 26th Jan 2024 I had an interesting therapy session today. By interesting, I mean I cried for the first time in a while and was...
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Beth Woolley
Jan 24, 202418 min read
My relationship with Jack
Date: 24th Jan 2023 I was going back through old blog posts and realised I'd unpacked my relationship with Luna countless times but I've...
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Beth Woolley
Jan 22, 202411 min read
My Experience with Depression, Self Harm and Suicidality and how this continues to affect my life now.
Date: 22nd Jan 2024 CW for this post, as the title suggests this post talks about self harm and suicidality, nothing graphic mentioned...
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Beth Woolley
Jan 20, 20246 min read
Fears around being an academic staff member
Date: 20th Jan 2024. Well this is officially a very late “welcome to 2024” type thing. But here we are. 2024, a year that is going to be...
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Beth Woolley
Dec 29, 20235 min read
Reflections on 2023
Date: 29th Dec 2023 Hullo, I did this around this time last year and actually really loved the idea of making this a yearly segment on my...
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Beth Woolley
Dec 10, 20237 min read
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Date: 9th December 2023 So I've had one of those weeks that has felt heavy and a bit soul destroying. I found out on Monday that at the...
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Beth Woolley
Dec 2, 202310 min read
My upbringing sometimes sucked
Date: 2nd Dec 2023 Ok, hello online diary. This post is a combination of one I wrote back in mid Nov and I elongated it this month,...
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Beth Woolley
Oct 19, 202314 min read
Where has the time gone?
Date: 19th October 2023 Two days ago I officially handed in my MASc thesis! That sentence still sounds weird to both say and write. Like...
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Beth Woolley
Sep 29, 20234 min read
Future Plans
Date: 29th Sept 2023 I think this is the first time I have maybe ever sat down and actively thought about my future and my plans for said...
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Beth Woolley
Sep 28, 20235 min read
Conflicting feelings
Date: 28th Sept 2023 Well, just when you think life may have finally calmed down long enough for you to settle into it and catch your...
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Beth Woolley
Sep 3, 202310 min read
I've no more fucks to give
Date: 3rd September 2023. Remember how a good couple of months ago I posted that I'd failed an essay and couldn't figure out how or why?...
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Beth Woolley
Aug 30, 202312 min read
Coleg Sir Gar
Date: 28th August 2023. I realised upon reflection that there are a lot of things that I haven't spoken about here online and I think...
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Beth Woolley
Aug 23, 202332 min read
Something Needs To Change || Academic Essay
Date: 23rd August 2023. Content Warning for the following essay: discussions of rape, mental health, suicide, suicide attempts, self...
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Beth Woolley
Aug 13, 202313 min read
Why respect for the spectator is crucial to the success and safety of participatory performance.
Date 13th August 2023: Hi everyone, little bit of a different post today, wanted to start sharing some of my more academic work online...
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Beth Woolley
Jul 7, 20235 min read
The Small Things
I won't sit here and lie to everyone, I'm struggling with things at the moment and there is a part of me that really hates admitting that....
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Beth Woolley
Jul 3, 20235 min read
I could fail?
Date 3rd July 2023 I currently want to curl up in a ball and either cry or scream into a void. My body/anxiety is letting me do neither,...
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