I know what you mean about the orange.

And I only saw the same shot on flickr (do I need an account for that?). The blue-green painting looks quite well as it is.

Interesting, with the red-orange shade association. I usually end up with a sickly yellow, but the flip side of that? Similar color associations.

I would just like to say, I really like your paintings, what medium are you using because I couldn’t find details on the site?

Below is an e-mail which I sent to ASAN as I don’t have time to do different ones.

I am a 48 year old autistic from England who has found no help with advocacy or research into suitable employment in ten years of search in the UK.

Please don’t tell me about the National Autistic Society, the Job Centre or any other local or national services/charities or other organisations in the UK as I have tried them all and none of them are able to help because of complex rules so it isn’t a question of not having found the right organisation. I need an individual freelance or self-employed who is allowed to help me.

If you don’t know the answer to the following questions, aren’t allowed to advise people from outside your area or otherwise aren’t able to help me, please don’t reply as I pay for the use of a computer and every extra e-mail that I have to read through will cost.

Is there an equivalent of ‘Asperger United’ which is a newsletter available both printed format and online published and edited by and for autistics in your country or worldwide in an English version? Are there any websites or online forums by and for autistics?

Are there any specific support groups/information sites etc aimed at autistic adults by which I mean people over 21 which is the highest age catered for in the UK, most services are purely for children and families, don’t any other of us live past 21?

Are there any kinds of advocates (not legal advocates) but people who put forward your questions and point of view etc to other people if you have trouble communicating. There are none in the UK for autistic adults, there isn’t a paying service either. Are there any in Australia, America, any other English-speaking country who would be prepared to deal with me? Also are there any researchers who are competent to do this, again in any countries who might be capable of looking for suitable paid work, if any for an autistic person of my age group? I cannot work in factories or laundry services anymore. These are the only things available in the UK.

Are there any careers people anywhere in the English speaking world who deal with disabled or even with the none disabled who are capable of researching what kinds of paid occupations exist in the world or is there any kind of either a book or website which doesn’t just list occupations but tells you what the work is and gives you a job description which is easy for the everyday person to understand. I cannot find such a thing anywhere in the UK, again don’t tell me to contact the careers service or government departments as I have tried this.

Thanks

D Maher

I have been concentrating more than usual lately on conveying various sensory/mental states rather than just painting whatever. But normally I just paint (and somehow it often comes out with cats involved.)