Tag: autistic experience
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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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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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‘Autistic’ is Not Synonymous with ‘Distress’
‘Autistic’ is not synonymous with ‘distress’. Being Autistic does not cause meltdowns, anxiety, or trauma. Usually we are described by how we are “affected by autism” but what we are actually being affected by is the environments we are in and the lack of support we receive. Meltdowns can occur in environments not designed for…
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Striving for a Better World
As we move into a new year, let’s make further steps towards creating a world where Autistic and other Neurodivergent people are valued as being part of human diversity rather than a pathology to fix. To embrace deviations from neuronormativity rather than to treat them as broken or sick. A world that identifies our experiences…
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Heartbreak High: Finally Great Autistic Representation!
A review of the Autistic character Quinni in the Netflix show, Heartbreak High. Representation of Autistic people has been very poor in the media. There are shows like the lead in The Good Doctor, Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory (not confirmed by the creators but who demonstrates stereotypes) Atypical (Netflix show) and of course…
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