Friendship Archives - A blog about life on the spectrum https://kaiskjold.com/tag/friendship/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:47:06 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 152266933 I Just Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone https://kaiskjold.com/2026/04/09/i-just-dont-want-to-hurt-anyone/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:26:21 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2102 Is that so bad? Yes and no. It’s good that we don’t want anyone to be hurt. I want to treat everyone with compassion and kindness, with respect and friendliness and not because I worry about what they think about be, but because I worry about how they feel. I want others to be happy because it makes me happy …

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]]> 2102 What About Regrets? https://kaiskjold.com/2026/04/02/what-about-regrets/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:44:06 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2099 I have always been trying to live my life in such a way that I would not have regrets. My choices has shaped the person I have become and I stubbornly assumed most of my life that this attitude has prevented me from suffering much from regrets in my life. Unexpectedly, these last few years, I have been struggling more …

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]]> 2099 Making Choices That Feel Right https://kaiskjold.com/2025/03/29/making-choices-that-feel-right/ Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:47:52 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2076 I struggled with making choices most of my life. Maybe I didn’t when I was a child, but as I grew up and realised I wasn’t like everyone else, I started struggling more and more. It’s not like I never wanted to make choices that made me happy, of course I did, but it wasn’t a simply binary problem. It …

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]]> 2076 Can We Say “I Am Sorry” Too Often https://kaiskjold.com/2025/02/16/can-we-say-i-am-sorry-too-often/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:32:33 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2064 When I was younger, I would apologize all the time. It was a reflex, not because I felt I had done something wrong. It was more, I was sure someone would feel I had done something wrong and therefore I apologised because I didn’t want to offend or hurt anyone. It became a reflex or maybe a bad habit. Of …

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]]> 2064 Finding Yourself After Illness https://kaiskjold.com/2024/04/07/finding-yourself-after-illness/ Sun, 07 Apr 2024 08:49:29 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2006 A few years back I lost my sense of smell and taste, then about a year later, I had coved-19 and even now I am not yet well. My sense of smell and taste is almost back, I think –  I might be wrong, because I was without it so long I forgot what it was like. I smell and …

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]]> 2006 How Do You Stay Motivated When the Whole World Seems Against You? https://kaiskjold.com/2024/03/31/how-do-you-stay-motivated-when-the-whole-world-seems-against-you/ Sun, 31 Mar 2024 08:42:13 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2001 Well, the long and short of it all is I don’t have a clue. I am currently trying to figure it out, but often life feels like it a little bit too much. Long Covid means I still, years later, struggle with fatigue amongst other things. Working full-time is hard and what is even worse is that people tend to …

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]]> 2001 A Duck or a Chicken? https://kaiskjold.com/2024/03/04/a-duck-or-a-chicken/ Mon, 04 Mar 2024 19:19:51 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=1993 You may wonder at the title of this post, but soon you will understand why I have named it so. You know, most definitely even if you a new reader of mine, that I am very much struggling in every social interaction I have. It is very normal to have difficulties reading social cues and such when on the spectrum …

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