Here's my story of consultation, assessment, diagnosis and the beginning of my journey as a late-diagnosed autistic, from the Examiner in 2022. I'm sticking to it.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/healthandwellbeing/arid-40840313.html
I've been biting my tongue so hard, that I think I'm going dizzy from blood loss; but suffice it to say, the "uptick" in Autism and ADHD diagnoses are not a "debate", nor are they fair game for same.
Understandings, knowledge and vocabularies expand across a variety of fields; human beings benefit from access to and knowledge of same. Sin é.
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Figs And Kakis for Breakfast.
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Watercolour painting of fresh figs and kaki (persimmon) fruits just before they were consumed for breakfast.
[ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/figs-and-kakis-for-breakfast-james-mccormack.html ]
Are any of my #mastodaoine in or around Waterford making their own #kefir ? I'm looking for a starter culture, hoping for an offcut. Could perhaps offer some aquarium plants in trade (java fern and a floating plant)
Sao Paulo City
Watercolour
Sao Paulo City, Brazil, downtown drawn from the 43rd floor of the Mirante do Vale building , skyscrapers , Banespa, Martinelli,( Centre, red), City Hall, (Edifício Matarazzo), right, Viaduto de Cha, behind is Edificio Planalto.
[ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/sao-paulo-city-james-mccormack.html ]
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Forever is Composed of Nows.
Acrylic on paper.
The title of an Emily Dickinson poem about forever and now inspired this painting about time, represented by clocks, a clock headed man, on a stairs, beside a grandfather clock, moving towards a door.
[ Prints :
https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/forever-is-composed-of-nows-james-mccormack.html ]
#clock #FediGiftShop #forever #composed #nows #time #clocks #jamesmccormackartist #MastoDaoine #man #always #eternity #stairs #steps #BuyIntoArt #emilydickinson #poem #grandfatherclock #door
Listening to Irish Water blaming people for wasting water when the mains leaks so badly we're running out of potable water after six cold sunny days in April ffs. Fix the sodding pipes and stop trying to get us to believe we're consumers not citizens!
Women in the Wind.
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Watercolour on paper
Boa Viagem beach in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. gusts of wind sweep the sand and palm trees, leaving hair and clothes in disarray. Done from life, holding the paper tightly.
Prints here =>>https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/women-in-the-wind-james-mccormack.html
Kalanchoe ("mother of thousands") plant:
These are the succulents with serrated edges to the leaves where a baby plant grows on each of the serrations.
I had a few of these growing up but I haven't seen any for a good while.
Does anyone have one (or several)? Would you be able to post a few baby ones to me? I'm in Ireland.
Irish 5-point Likert scale:
Cat - Middlin' - Grand - Savage - Mighty altogether
Inspired by https://mastodon.ie/@Tarbh/114273783046794813
John Noel Smith: Obstacle course for a pragmatist
Hillsboro Fine Art
49 Parnell Square West Dublin 1
closing Saturday 5 April
#ArtIreland #Dnote #MastoDaoine #Art #Ireland #NorthernIreland
Fuller information here: https://dnote.website?p=810306 [dnote.website]
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Wired Our Own Way is on the shelves, but no book is ever properly launched unless it happens in the real capital.
This Thursday, April 3rd; 6.30pm; Dubray Books, Patrick Street, Cork City. Free in; quiet, neuroaffirming space; drinks afterward at the Woodford.
Editor @niamhgarvey provides a look at what to expect for neurodivergent folk at the launch events here: https://niamhgarvey.com/2025/03/22/what-to-expect-at-the-book-launches-of-wired-our-own-way/
Can't argue with a warning like that. Had to stop for a couple.
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Green Ribbon Abstract.
A green ribbonlike form curves and winds its way through red, yellow, orange.
[ Prints :https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/green-ribbon-abstract-james-mccormack.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social ]
#greenribbon #green #ribbon #abstract #red #yellow #orange #buyintoart #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #MastoDaoine
Introduction. Boost Please
#TZAG to you all!
My old instance went down with the grid. I was not able to recover it, so here I am renewed!
I live in the Highlands of #Scotland. I speak #Gàidhlig and a little #Gaeilge, I love the #MastoDaoine.
I enjoy:
The book's Dublin launch is tonight at 6pm at Hodges Figgis, with Sam Blake and @niamhgarvey appearing; drinks at Neary's afterward.
Its Cork launch is on Thursday April 3rd at 6.30pm, at Dubray on Patrick Street, with Niamh and myself, drinks at the Woodford afterward.
For neurodivergent folk and their loved ones planning to attend the launch events, please find a handy 'what to expect' dossier at @niamhgarvey's website:
https://niamhgarvey.com/2025/03/22/what-to-expect-at-the-book-launches-of-wired-our-own-way/
Reminder: this anthology of Irish non-fiction from autistic writers, Wired Our Own Way, hits shelves at Dubray Books and the postboxes of people who preordered tomorrow, Friday March 28th, via New Island Books. Audiobook via Audible, Tuesday April 1st.
It's been a long journey for editor @niamhgarvey, assembling work from a variety of scribes, from hacks like me to new voices entirely; it's a beautiful cross-section of the autistic experience of Ireland.
Vague Vogue.
Mixed media.
A collage, drawing and painting, fashion and whimsy with a surreal juxtaposition of natural and urban motifs. This is a cover for Vague magazine, where all creativity is in vogue.
[ Prints : https://james-mccormack.pixels.com/featured/vague-vogue-james-mccormack.html ]
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Redscape, a red landscape.
