Sunday, 20 December 2015

Christmas for an Autistic Mum

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Some days I think how lucky we are that the three of us are autistic, in our family. It means Christmas is pretty stress-free.  At least...
Thursday, 17 December 2015

Autism: Denials and 'Gaslighting'

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One of the most painful experiences that most autistic people endure is not being believed.  A good number of people do not want to listen t...
Saturday, 12 December 2015

Positive Behaviour Support is Applied Behaviour Analysis with add ons

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epjud2Of610 Great marketing.  [summarised]...."Got an autistic person in your life?  Use this "...
Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Mythbuster: Autism is not Selfishness

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One of the myths about autism is that we are selfish. Oddly, that is not a part of the diagnostic assessment, and neither is it true. Unfo...
Sunday, 6 December 2015

"But you are nothing like Child X - You don't have Real Autism"

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Any autistic adult gets this a lot. The narrative, summarised, is this: "It's all very well Ann talking about all the strengths of...
Saturday, 5 December 2015

Bullying of Autistic People

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“Bullying is achieved by projection of the bully's inadequacy onto others, through criticism, exclusion, isolation, etc. Bullying is sus...
Monday, 30 November 2015

Psychological Questionnaires and Autism - "Paranoia"

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It is a delight to be working with so many colleagues in Psychiatry, Psychology and the related fields. One of the questions I get from de...