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I am autistic. I have had two nervous breakdowns and several other episodes of serious mental ill-health. For many years I was treated for depression, but my symptoms now seem closer to C-PTSD. I suffer frequent autistic meltdowns, acute anxiety and panic attacks.
My first nervous breakdown was caused by stalking, bullying and institutional victimisation. My second was caused by cyber-bullying and institutional victimisation. Electronic messages from threatening or potentially threatening sources can cause me to panic and can prevent me from opening or reading the messages for months or years on end. This includes messages on my Wikipedia talk page.
My vulnerable mental health makes it difficult to cope with editorial disagreements in which there is a shortage of respect or civility or logic or rationale. It does not take much for a tactless editor to cause me either an autistic meltdown, a panic attack or both.
My interests include wildlife, merchant shipping, canals, railways, motorcycles, history, architecture, modern languages and photography. My photography interests are mainly churches and other architectural history, modern buses and occasionally railways or inland waterways.
I used to contribute to many articles about places in England: most of them about villages and hamlets in and around Oxfordshire. However, at present I am not contributing to this subject area since another contributor edit warred against me, destroyed consistency across a group of articles and refused to reach a reasonable consensus.
I have created a few dozen new articles about individual villages, several about Victorian architects who worked on Oxfordshire churches and houses, a few about present and former railway stations in the county and a handful about parish churches that deserved fuller treatment than could be fitted into the main article for their villages. I have contributed many hundreds of photographs of churches and other historic buildings to Wikimedia Commons for use in these articles.
I write or expand articles about the UK's Merchant Navy.
I tried to contribute to articles about current bus operators in and around Oxfordshire. At present I have given up working in this subject area after another editor edit warred against my contributions to Arriva Shires & Essex and Stagecoach in Oxfordshire.
In 2012 I created the article Industriewerke Ludwigsfelde, about an East German factory whose products began with aircraft engines and later switched to motor scooters.
Whenever expanding or creating articles I cite published sources. I refer repeatedly to the same sources and find it time-consuming to keep putting the same details in cite book templates so frequently. To save time I now keep a template of each of my usual sources in a list on a special page from which I can copy and paste them.
I am fluent in English, fairly good at German and get by in French. If you send me a message in German or French please keep it simple so that I can understand! I know rudimentary Spanish, Czech, Polish and Russian, but not enough to contribute much to Wikipedia.
I use userboxes to summarise some of my interests. Unfortunately I have not the least idea how to control the way they lay themselves out on this page! The "Babel" template seems to have a mind of its own...
