University Archives - A blog about life on the spectrum https://kaiskjold.com/tag/university/ Tue, 31 Dec 2024 09:39:04 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 152266933 Creativity and Pain https://kaiskjold.com/2025/01/17/creativity-and-pain-2/ Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:37:16 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=2060 How some artists are able to sink deep into depression and be more creative than ever before I will never be able to understand. I am the absolute opposite. If I am sad, depressed or struggling I feel completely disconnected from all sense of creativity and I am barely able to produce the bare minimum of content. I am basically …

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]]> 2060 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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]]> 1993 The Friends We Need Vs the Friends We Have https://kaiskjold.com/2024/02/05/the-friends-we-need-vs-the-friends-we-have/ Mon, 05 Feb 2024 13:44:20 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=1986 I recently wrote a post about holding yourself back in front of others. One of the things I realised, was that it is important to balance how much you hold back. When I talk a lot, it is often because I lose myself a little, not because I am free and happy. Maybe, the cause of it, for me at …

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]]> 1986 So, It’s Stress – What’s Next? https://kaiskjold.com/2023/11/19/so-its-stress-whats-next/ Sun, 19 Nov 2023 14:38:17 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=1972 The year of 2023 is coming to an end soon and in a way, I am a little afraid of that. Every time the year comes to an end, I have such high hopes for finding more time in the coming year to do things I love – to do the things that make life worth living – but I …

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]]> 1972 Being an Adult https://kaiskjold.com/2023/10/08/being-an-adult/ Sun, 08 Oct 2023 15:42:00 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=1967 Life was just a lot easier before I had to grow up. I am not saying being an adult doesn’t have its benefits, such as having complete responsibility over our own life and the choices we make. It’s just, being a child also had a lot of benefits and not just of the “I see a jar of cookies and …

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]]> 1967 Me & Exam Anxiety https://kaiskjold.com/2023/03/19/me-exam-anxiety/ Sun, 19 Mar 2023 08:18:32 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=1945 Exams. We all have to go through them one way or another. Some can breeze through them like nothing – some, who have never opened a book the entire year and missed most classes, will go into that exam room and come out with an A+ like it is nothing. Then again, there are some who study every day of …

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]]> 1945 Facial Expressions https://kaiskjold.com/2023/02/05/facial-expressions/ Sun, 05 Feb 2023 11:29:07 +0000 https://kaiskjold.com/?p=1913 This time I want to talk about facial expressions. It’s something that most people do intuitively, I am told, and interpreting the facial expressions of others is equally intuitive. Not to me, though. It may come as a surprise to you, but I didn’t even know that I couldn’t read facial expressions until I was a teenager. When I was …

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