Autitude Issue 17 - out now!   Illustrated & curated by me and filled with wonderful poetry, reflections and artwork.    Read it here .

Was chatting to a group of 'the young people' (yes I hate that phrase too) t'other week about social interaction/pubs/clubs and the like and how to navigate such things if you're Autistic and it reminded me of one of the probably only two occasions I've ever been drunk - I mean really, really drunk - in my entire life. So obviously I thought I'd share it here because there aren't enough reasons to take the absolute piss out of me as it is. Take yourself back, if you will, to the heady days of 1995...a pre-DX me has planned a Clockwork Orange themed night out for my 26th birthday to - hopefully - cap off a fairly eventful albeit slightly shitey year where a massive group of us Droogs (well 6 of us) were going to spend the nochy out for a slap-up pischa-fest followed by much drinking with a wee bit of dancing thrown in. No Synthmesc or Drencrom tho' as I was booked in to work the next day. This may be important later.   I must just add tho' that anyone