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I’ve been back at uni for a few weeks and I’m already so exhausted. I’ve started Honours so I was aware it was going to full on but still it’s tiring and fatigue inducing. At least I’m doing it part-time and have two years to complete it. Despite that, I’m really interested in my thesis topic - I’m going to be exploring the lived experiences of women diagnosed as autistic in adulthood within Australia. Obviously my topic is motivated by my own recent diagnosis and after reading the literature it is definitely a topic that needs more research.

I’ve got two experienced supervisors too which is great! Though my original supervisor was more experienced in Autism, but unfortunately she is leaving the uni (she’s still doing her PHD here) and had to drop out. She still is going to be an advisor which is good as my supervisors are not very knowledgeable about Autism. My primary supervisor does have disability background and neurodiversity experience but more with brain injury and epilepsy, and my secondary supervisor is an expert in qualitative research and has a sociology background. So I do have a great supervision team to support me.

I’m hoping I do well with honours as I’m looking to do a PHD afterwards. I’m feeling like research is something I’m really interested in and would be good at. I definitely feel that autism research needs more researchers who are actually autistic themselves.

Fingers crossed that 2021 goes a bit better than 2020! That being said I did manage to achieve a few things this year.

Anyway, usually I refuse to make New Year’s resolutions because in the past I’ve not been very good at doing them. But then I thought how I have goals for my NDIS plan and realised that those are my resolutions really. So my resolutions are:

1. Continue to be more active and exercise.
2. Learn to be more independent (so I can eventually move out from my parents’ house)
3. Develop more friendships (get a boyfriend maybe lol) and be more active in the community.
4. Find some volunteer opportunities in the disability field.

What about you guys? Do you have any? Or do you avoid them?

Cross-posted on merlin_betas.

I already posted here on the 14th of Dec, but I desperately need a beta to look over my camelot_drabble 2020 Holiday Exchange Fest fic. It's a requirement that it needs to be beta'ed. I'm still in the process of writing it but it should be done before the 22nd of Dec. I'm not posting till the 26th of Dec so that means there's some time for someone to look it over.

Genre: Fairytale, drama, romance
Pairing, or characters: Arthur/Gwen, Arthur, Gwen, Uther, Igraine, Gaius, Merlin, Morgana
Type of beta you'd like: Spelling/grammar/structure and plot, and general feedback.
Length, or word count: 601 (so far - I'm still writing it)
Short Summary: As it is for camelot_drabble's 2020 Holiday Exchange Fest, I don't want to give anymore details away. So if you are interested in beta'ing but want to find out more info, just let me know by commenting below or via PM.

I know I've not posted much, but I'm participating in the camelot_drabble 2020 Holiday Exchange Fest and I am after a beta! More details below!