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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
The you you are
Date 4th April 2025 It's odd how much this website has helped me over the last 3 years. Nobody really sees it but me and a select group...
Beth Woolley
Apr 46 min read
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Unanswered questions
Date: 29th March, 2025. Ok, so you're gonna need to bear with me a touch on this. But I'm currently on a slight neurodivergent hyper...
Beth Woolley
Mar 292 min read
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Where do we go from here?
5th Jan 2025 Hi everyone, gosh so sorry it's taken so long for me to reemerge back onto this site. Life got incredibly stressful and...
Beth Woolley
Jan 512 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Jul 3, 20246 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Feb 14, 20244 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Feb 11, 20244 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Jan 29, 20246 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Jan 26, 20248 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Jan 24, 202418 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Jan 22, 202411 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Jan 20, 20246 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Dec 29, 20235 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Dec 10, 20237 min read
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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,...
Beth Woolley
Dec 2, 202310 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Oct 19, 202314 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Sep 29, 20234 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Sep 28, 20235 min read
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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?...
Beth Woolley
Sep 3, 202310 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Aug 30, 202312 min read
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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...
Beth Woolley
Aug 23, 202332 min read
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