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This week in Touch Points I ask what parts of you do you filter out because you were taught to, and what parts do you want to keep or reclaim? I write the Touch Points cabinet one object at a time, where the senses, memory and material things meet. open.substack.com/pub/hayleywe...

Object 1 is in the Touch Points cabinet. open.substack.com/pub/hayleywe...

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What if every object were a portal — a small, solid piece of time? Each week, I open one from past, present and future, or from a book. Together they form a quiet museum of feeling, a tactile and sensory history, and ask why do some ‘things’ endure? substack.com/@hayleywebst...

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If you're #autistic what made you think you weren't autistic 'enough'? And what made you realise you are?

I've been recollecting the vinyl that was thrown away (not by me) after my dad died (that I bought aged 12-19). Any perfect Christmas albums from your pount of view?

I have never put #autistic in my bio before. Not becsuse I'm not accepting of it. I just never saw myself as autistic 'enough'. I felt like I was taking someone else's legitimate autistic space. But it turns out it is who I am, how I do things, how I think, what I can manage, achieve & be. New Era.

Bert (from the movie not the books) remains Top of the Man Pops.