Tag: autistic
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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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‘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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