Good day to you, my name's Colm Philpott, welcome to my blog! This blog started as a space for me to talk about my experience of coming to the realization that I'm autistic quite late in life. Eventually I branched out into talking about music, cycling and astronomy. Over the last two years I've blogged more about my ever increasing interest in wildlife. And a topic I talk about frequently, that I think everyone should be talking about, is the genocide in Gaza.
Not Safe For Humans Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a furious deathworld of extremely deathy death! So, I’ve explained that this sketch is associated with extreme hellishness, so what do you think it is? It’s the planet Venus. I realized Venus was out last night, and also it’s … Continue reading My Favourite Hellscape
So if you’ve read my previous cycling blogpost: https://autismneurodiversity.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/my-only-unsuccessful-cycling-trip/ You’ll know that I could not let the fact that there was one cycle I didn’t complete go. It was like my white whale, except, you know considerably safer than chasing a white whale. I was going to repeat the cycle, taking a lot more rests … Continue reading I Can’t Let Anything Go, Repeating My Failed Cycle In the Hope of Succeeding This Time
So, labels are bad apparently. So how does one go about describing themselves? Well, I’m tall, no, can’t use that, that’s a label. I don’t want to define myself by being tall. I’m bald. No, that’s a label, can’t say that either. I have a beard, no. Four hours later............ So, I would describe myself … Continue reading Why I Believe In Labels
There is a certain rapper who the young kids may not remember called 50 Cent. He had such songs as, eh, I don’t know, because I don’t remember his music either. In 2016, he started ridiculing an airport worker who was just doing his job, and at the revelation that the worker was autistic, 50 … Continue reading Why Do Our Differences Require An Explanation?
The Titanic sank 111 years ago, but while the ship was considered unsinkable, what unfortunately don’t seem to be unsinkable are the various myths and over-simplifications surrounding it. There’s the idea that so many died because there weren’t enough lifeboats (an oversimplification). The idea that First Officer Murdoch shot and killed a passenger and and … Continue reading Charles Lightoller, The Unsung Villian Of The Titanic
Flying Microtonal Banana gets off to a strange and exhilarating start. The first track, “Rattlesnake”, opens with this very intense wind noise, and then the guitar intro comes in. There is nothing unusual about the tone of the guitar, an electric through overdrive, not too unusual, but the actual notes the guitar is playing are … Continue reading Flying Microtonal Banana, The Album That Started Me On the Road To Microtonal Music
Before I start I hear you saying, (Yes, I can hear you, but that’s not the subject I want to talk about today.) “How do you even define an unsuccessful cycling trip? If you grew as a person during the trip, wasn’t that a successful trip? If you made some friends alone the way....” I’m … Continue reading My Only Unsuccessful Cycling Trip
So it was 2015, I’d been cycling for over a year, and I wanted a new adventure. I found something that peaked my interest on Google maps. About twenty miles north of where I lived, on the left hand side of the road was Glenagear wood, and on the right hand side was Corran mountain, … Continue reading Poor Planning, Hubris, And A Forest I Hope Never To Return To
You’ve read about the hardest cycle I’ve ever did (assuming you’re read my other blogposts, it was presumptous of me to assume that but I did it anyway.) Then, in what may have been the most anticlimatic way of putting out blogposts ever, you read about the second hardest cycle I ever did, then the … Continue reading The Boatiest Cycle I Ever Did
Hello everyone, first off, I'd like to wish you all a happy new year. While it was hopefully an improvement for most of you over 2020 and 2021, 2022 was still a scary and uncertain time, with the war in Ukraine, an increase in energy bills, and it never being more apparent that climate change … Continue reading Some Changes to the Blog
Ponderings Of An Autist 