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Recent content by Tara Gwen

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    higher functioning autism and problems with romantic relationships

    Tomorrow is St V,s day. I find romantic relationships almost impossible. I have had 2 romantic relationships in my life. Mary I met in group therapy and it evolved to closeness and lasted a very long time. Faith I met in the pre-internet age when I joined a postal listings group. I was busy...
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    Social groups for autistic people

    I find socialising quite difficult. I was displaced from all my friends in a housing crisis and found refuge in a Northern Steel city which is utterly overwhelming. My life companion of over 31 years is in a nursing home far away with no memory of me or recognition of who I am, and I am...
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    Social groups for autistic people

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    Morbid Curiosity

    I too have real problems with an insatiable curiosity on the internet. I am obsessed with the paintings of the Belgium surrealist artist, Paul Delvaux. Then sometimes I look at the drawings of the Finnish artist Tom of Finland. Last night after watching a television programme about French art...
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    Morbid Curiosity

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    Comment by 'Tara Gwen' in media '13325624_871070679669580_2736389922082248981_n'

    Like a Welsh dragon.
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    Comment by 'Tara Gwen' in media '15970216_1039842016125778_1837007033_n'

    Wow, what a powerful image. Again, it looks ambiguous. Entwined. The gestures, are they affectionate or is she trying to fend him off? Ambiguity is present, even in the best of relationships.
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    Comment by 'Tara Gwen' in media '13325624_871070679669580_2736389922082248981_n'

    What is this monster doing? Is this a greedy grasping craving clinging man, causing pain sadistically with a woman?
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    Comment by 'Tara Gwen' in media '13592397_892327830877198_5681015417987380955_n'

    Having the heart stolen is a possible effect of falling in love, but the outcomes can be either beneficial or not. It reminds me of Emily Bronte,s novel, "Wuthering Heights". Cathy and Heathcliff have a very powerful relationship, but he can seem cruel at times, and ultimately it seems a beyond...
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    Comment by 'Tara Gwen' in media '13567188_892326747543973_1855354858484278583_n'

    O gosh. This could be a sort of man male monster trying to swallow up in his greedy clinging craving impersonal grasp, a woman. Given that I have a friend who has had at least 3 very distressing relationships with men, one who exploited and tricked her, obtained bogus consent and created great...
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    Comment by 'Tara Gwen' in media '13592397_892327830877198_5681015417987380955_n'

    I am puzzled by this. Is this affectionate or is it the compressed squeezed heart, or is it deliberately ambiguous? It is very powerful about relationships.
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    Beautiful. Tara Gwen.
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    Comment by 'Tara Gwen' in media '16144734_1044342635675716_231446248_n'

    Is this the social whirled world swallowing us up with noise and crowds and too many words? Tara Gwen.
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    Shy new member- Tara Gwen

    I like the Malmo Choir singing Bach,s St Matthew Passion. Very recently I have come to like a recent composition of St Matthew Passion by the Russian composer, Hilarion Alfeyev. Although Bach lived in a world with all male choirs and male clergy, he seems to prioritise women sometimes. The...
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    Shy new member- Tara Gwen

    I heard many years ago Pachelbel,s canon played on a pipe organ. I imagined being cherished and accepted, with quiet imagery in my mind. I was in floods of tears, though not noisily, even though I was at a public concert. I do like Rachmaninov,s Vespers, as well as his piano concertos. I suppose...
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