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Cooking While Autistic — 01

Richard Crim
2 min readFeb 7, 2022

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Existence is about process,

so is cooking.

Existence is about process.

A must come before B, B before C.

At times this can be tedious.

Then we eat.

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February 07, 2022

Coda:

I understand that very few people will want to read these. These aren't for you, they are for me. My wife is terminally ill and we are doing hospice care now. She could be OK for months, she could die later today. Her odds of lasting another year? Very small.

This is stressful for me.

I tend to think in visual terms. Images with bursts of words. My wife is howling with laughter at my saying this. “OMG, you think in comic book form”. “They’re “graphic novels” is my attempt at a haughty reply. “These are zen poems”. High art!

“I love the way you think” she smiles at me. Then turns to watch the latest thing to…

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Richard Crim
Richard Crim

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My entire life can be described in one sentence: Things didn’t go as planned, and I’m OK with that.

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