Tag: autistic people
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Announcement: Joining GROVE Neurodivergent Mentoring & Education
I’m absolutely thrilled to be joining GROVE Neurodivergent Mentoring & Education as an individual mentor. GROVE provides online Autistic-led mentoring, groups and programmes for young people in the UK. Very excited to be a part of this wonderful organisation! You can find out more about GROVE on their page. 🙂 And below is the cool…
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In-Service Days Training
With some schools in Scotland reopening this week, I was fortunate to be asked to deliver some staff training during their in-service days at the beginning of the week. It has been an invigorating start to the new term! On Monday, I ran a session on Autistic people’s sensory experiences to the teaching staff at…
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Podcast with Neurodiversity Natter on ‘Creating Safe Spaces’
The podcast episode myself and Laura Hellfeld recorded with Neurodiversity Natter is now available! We are very grateful for them inviting us on to discuss our book, Creating Safe Spaces for Autistic People. You can listen to this episode via the various options listed in the link below. https://linktr.ee/neurodiversity_natter?trk=public_post_comment-text ID: Dark blue background featuring small…
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The Dangers of Pejorative Language
There remains a pervasive and deeply worrying use of pejorative language in society when discussing Autistic people. Of course, this has originated from the early observations of Autistic people almost a century ago, where clinicians made observations of young children displaying distress and judged how they measured against non-autistic people. Despite how much time has…
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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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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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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 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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‘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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