Friday, 18 September 2015

'Vulnerable' does not mean incompetent

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This is such an important one. Anyone can be 'vulnerable'.  Anyone at all.  For example, if someone is a patient at a hospital, or i...
Monday, 14 September 2015

Autism Basics. When "I'll be back in five minutes" isn't true.

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So many myths about autism.  And quite a lot of really standard stuff was never public knowledge. Giving us inaccurate information about t...
Saturday, 12 September 2015

Worth more than gold

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It's a difficult one, worth, isn't it. What's someone worth? What's someone like me worth?   Autism has...
Monday, 7 September 2015

Non-Autistic Autism Experts: How to get it right...and wrong

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The great thing about the last couple of years?  Autistic experts are now equal leaders in autism work. For decades, we were too often trea...
Saturday, 15 August 2015

On making it impossible for us to do a task, then blaming us

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Over the decades,  as an autistic adult, I've had some unusual experiences with non-autistic leaders. Many good experiences, with many g...
Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Equal Treatment is Not Equal in Effect

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In faith settings, sometimes someone says to me, "Oh but we treat everyone the same, so that's evidence that we're fair". ...
Sunday, 12 July 2015

Nothing to learn about God here...move along..?

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Sometimes I have an awkward conversation with church folk. I ask to join in, saying that there are an awful lot of autistic people, and our ...