Ann's Autism Blog

Saturday, 12 July 2025

Autistic Meltdown and Shutdown - 'The Last Straw'

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  "Sam was so unprofessional in today's meeting.  OK, so we forgot to arrange a room that had natural lighting and there were fluor...
Wednesday, 11 June 2025

Autistic People - Where are we in 2025? The Positives and Realities

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  Autism. Here we are, 100 years on from the work of Sukhareva, and 80 years on from the original misunderstandings in the 1940s.   So, what...
Sunday, 8 December 2024

"Inappropriate Behaviour". Is it?

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  In the media, a lot of current discussion about celebrities who behave very inappropriately with some others, e.g. men who target younger ...
Saturday, 10 August 2024

Autism escaped from the Clinic? We were never in there.

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One of the retired Professors was reflecting on a lifetime in autism work. She said that a big change was the 'escape' of autism fro...
Tuesday, 16 July 2024

The quest for a cure for autism?

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  I was listening to the radio, a few mornings ago.  They were interviewing a scientist who was working towards a cure for disease.  He expl...
Sunday, 9 June 2024

The hidden nightmare for autistic employees

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  There are endless initiatives trying to get autistic people into employment.  Most portray the autistic people as 'the problem' fo...
Saturday, 24 February 2024

Codes of Conduct, Disability and Neurodivergence - How to Get it Right

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  Good Codes of Conduct are a useful thing for so many places.  Well worded, collaborative, sensible and kind, they can add so much to the n...
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Ann Memmott
Autistic autism professional. National and international speaker. Master's and Post Graduate Certificate - autism, with award for research. 30 years of working alongside autistic people across a wide variety of settings. Trainer, consultant, speaker, lecturer. Working with NHS teams as an external adviser. Previous work as charity Trustee and School Governor.. This is a personal blog and does not represent the views of any organisation linked to me. Founder and MD of a Professional Practice for 20 years, now Consultant and researcher to one..
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