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Autistic Pride Day: Why I’m Openly Autistic
Today is the 9th annual Autistic Pride Day and the first since I’ve been ‘officially’ on the autistic spectrum. Of course I’ve been acutely aware that I was different from other people since childhood,...
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Unblocking myself
Huge apologies for not updating this site since June. A few people told me they were excited that I was writing here in general or because of particular topics I mentioned I was covering, and I feel...
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Understanding the ‘Spectrum’ in Autistic Spectrum
One of the most common misconceptions I see about the autistic spectrum is the idea that a spectrum must cover all people. I’ve seen variations on this statement appear in several places: “Everyone’s a...
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First Impressions of a Non-stereotypical Autistic
When you first meet me, you might not think that I’m autistic. The Stereotypes I’m probably not the stereotype the that average person would think of when imagining an autistic person or someone who’s...
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Nottingham Cafe Sci “Thinking about Neurodevelopmental conditions in adulthood”
Yesterday I attended the Nottingham Café Scientifique talk “Thinking about Neurodevelopmental conditions in adulthood” given by Dr Jo Jones, Psychologist based at the NHS Nottingham City Asperger...
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Strategies for coping with international air travel
Air travel is something that happens to me infrequently enough to not be ‘second nature’ or ever become truly familiar. I currently travel overseas every other February, with the gap of two years being...
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World Autism Awareness Day 2015
My tweets from the 2nd of April 2015 hoping to raise awareness of how to include and support autistic people. Collected for easy reading using my Storify account. View the story “World Autism Awareness...
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Daily Art September 2015
On the 1st of September I decided to join in with a project that my local comics making group was doing to create a new drawing every day. I’ve long wanted to create comics, but I struggle to make time...
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Daily Art October 2015
After starting daily art on the 1st of September and successfully drawing every day in September, I’ve continued the habit and drawn for all 31 days of October too. I was initially trying to challenge...
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Autistics Speaking Day 2015: Podcasting from autistic space
By coincidence, I reached the ‘In Autistic Space’ chapter of Steve Silberman’s New York Times bestselling, excellent, but often harrowing autism history book NeuroTribes on the morning November the...
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