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  • I HAVE TO JUST SETTLE TO DIFFER
    December 21, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    I HAVE TO JUST SETTLE TO DIFFER

    As November was rolling through, and the time to begin writing this month’s blog arrived, I was initially stuck with deciding what to write about. However, earlier this morning feelings of frustration occurred when I couldn’t understand something that my mum was telling me (due to my difficulties with discerning most people’s verbal language). This even led to a minor meltdown. Though, perhaps on a much more positive note, the subject of this month’s blog came along to me from this experience. The subject is about me having to just settle to differ, whenever I don’t understand the language/communication of most, or even when they don’t understand my method of communication.

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  • THE EQ MATTERS JUST AS MUCH AS THE IQ DOES
    December 11, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    THE EQ MATTERS JUST AS MUCH AS THE IQ DOES

    Nowadays virtually everyone has heard about a psychological measurement called the IQ (or Intelligence Quotient) score. This assesses a person’s strengths and weaknesses in areas including logic, spatial awareness, working memory, mathematical reasoning, general knowledge and certain kinds of literacy skills. Many of us are curious to know what our IQ scores are for self-knowledge and receive excitement or disappointment once a number is given for how intelligent we are determined to be. Yet when IQ tests were first developed in the early 20th Century, it wasn’t merely to create competition between highly intelligent people.
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  • Image of a box like character is standing mournfully with a heart tucked under their arm
    October 10, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    THERE ARE TIMES WHEN IT DOES HURT TO BE DIFFERENT

    In today’s day and age, a lot is being done to promote neurodiversity (or to promote acceptance of people with disabilities). We have come a reasonable distance in a very short space of time. Thus as a person who has disabilities myself, I am in truth very thankful that I wasn’t born in an earlier time. However as life for people with disabilities was exceptionally difficult a mere century ago (and nothing much was done to improve those conditions until recently), we are still a long way from living in a world that is even close to perfect.
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  • Illustration of a ladies silhouette with an outline of her brain on show. She is surrounded by clock faces and three lightbulbs to represent thinking.
    September 4, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    THE ONLY PROBLEM IS, THAT I NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING IN ADVANCE…

    Since the very beginning of my life, I have always experienced anxiety about unpredictability. These episodes aren’t just mere moments of daily stress either. On the contrary, whenever an unexpected change happens my natural reaction is to completely lose control, and have intense meltdowns where I’m uncontrollably yelling as well as thrashing around on the floor. Now I have learned mindfulness exercises (of which I’ll soon discuss) that enable me to gradually pull my mind out of the terror. 
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  • a digital image that looks like a circuit board with a outline of a human head and its cortex
    August 8, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    I'VE HAD AN IDEA FOR QUITE SOME TIME...

    I was given a comforting (as well as exciting) idea. There was a time when I had to travel over to California, to have an MRI done by the lab researching one of the conditions that I have. My mother did of course have to come along with me, and we spent just over a week there. In addition to having my MRI that week, I also got to meet and talk to the famous robot Asimo. Asimo certainly was extremely technologically advanced for his time. He amazed crowds with these qualities; though I discovered that his primary purpose was to assist people with disabilities as well. That is when I received the idea of eventually having a robot of my own to both help me and keep me company.
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  • Image of a person painting a mindfulness picture at table
    July 6, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    DOING ARTWORK IS BRINGING MINDFULNESS TO LIFE

    The first thing that comes to mind when many of us think of mindfulness, is that it solely involves meditation and/or breathing exercises. Yet despite many being available that do involve meditation, there are also other ways of practising mindfulness. Doing artwork is one example. In truth activities which could be termed as artwork are vast. But the reason why visual art (that of which is intended to be aesthetic to someone by sight or purely and simply seeing) is mentioned in the following paragraph is merely because it’s an activity which I myself do.
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