Category: actually autistic
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Minding Autistic Minds Conference 2024
What an amazing few days in Ireland this week at the Minding Autistic Minds conference (run by AUsome Training) sharing space with wonderful people. It was full of extraordinary practice (and life) changing presentations and workshops. Everyone who supports Autistic people needs to attend events like this. It was so validating to experience on a…
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Just Published! ‘Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic People’
*Publishing Day* ‘Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic People’ (co-written with Laura Hellfeld) is now available as a paperback! (See links below) You can choose either the full colour or colour reduced version. An eBook of both versions will also be coming soon. https://amzn.eu/d/hIpjjQP https://amzn.eu/d/e99Ub1l ID: Beige background with an image of the Creating Safe Spaces…
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PDA Space Summit 2024
This year I am collaborating with Laura Hellfeld Neurodivergent Nurse Consulting for the annual PDA Space Summit held on the 26th – 28th April. Myself and Laura have recorded a webinar discussing the effect that the stress hormone of cortisol can have on Autistic people. We will share various examples of how this can present,…
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Nominated for National Diversity Awards 2024
I received a lovely email yesterday notifying me that I have been nominated for this years National Diversity Awards! The award I am up for is Positive Role Model for Disability. Massive thank you to those who nominated me! 🙂 If you would like to vote for me and pass this on, I have included…
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Training with Better Lives Partnership
I had a great day yesterday in Dumfries and Galloway delivering a training session to the fantastic Better Lives Partnership. This was my first time facilitating a session in-person through AUsome Training (an organisation in Ireland I often work with). A lovely way to celebrate Weird Pride Day! The session focused on ‘Exploring Neurodivergent Learning’…
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*Announcement* Safe Space Booklet
*Exciting Announcement* Myself and Laura Hellfeld Neurodivergent Nurse Consulting would like to share that we will soon be publishing our booklet ‘Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic People’. We wanted to write this booklet in order to outline some of the key principles, values and approaches that can cultivate a safe space for Autistic people. This…
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A Few Book Recommendations
These are a few recommendations of books by Autistic authors and illustrators that I’ve read over the past week. Please consider supporting their work if you are able to. Links to these are below. 🙂 Gregory Tino has an amazing series of books titled ‘Autism and I’ exploring their experiences as a non-speaker. There is…
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Autistic People can Only Thrive as Autistic People
This was originally one of my first posts and images I shared on my Facebook page last year. I thought I would publish it here as well given how important this is to understanding and supporting Autistic people. One of my guiding principles is that we can only thrive as Autistic people. Changing us to…
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Being Autistic Trainers: AUsome Training Video
Recently I was fortunate to receive an opportunity to join the team of AUsome Training, an Autistic-led organisation based in Ireland. I previously connected with AUsome through several webinars I delivered with them earlier this year. I had a chat last month on Facebook Live with the lovely Evaleen Whelton, the founder of AUsome Training.…
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Autistic Pride Day
Today is Autistic Pride Day. This is a day that was first held back in 2005 by Autistic people. Gwen Nelson, who invented Autistic Pride Day, is also trans, which Autistic people are more likely to identify as. It is a day that was founded to combat stigma and reframe the pathologising narrative in society,…
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