Sunday, 18 September 2016

Autism: Body Autonomy for girls and women

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This is an important subject.  I'm seeing a lot of autism colleagues start to talk about it.  We need to talk more about it. Y...
Friday, 16 September 2016

Autism Safeguarding - Important Checklist re Behaviour Therapies

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I have safeguarding training to the same level as Social Services.  I am also a national speaker at safeguarding conferences, and advise chu...
Sunday, 11 September 2016

Autism: Wholly inaccurate data on sexual behaviour.

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Almost no good research has been done into autism and sexual behaviour. The existing research typically involves looking at Young men......
Thursday, 8 September 2016

Autism and Lighting in Buildings

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The photo above shows a prison hallway.  Could be any prison, anywhere.  This is how I see it, as someone who is autistic, with visua...
Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Autism and Females: "You can't be autistic because..."

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Very good to see so many colleagues talking on media about autism and females. The difficulties getting a diagnosis, in particular.  ...
Sunday, 28 August 2016

Autism: Neurodiversity versus "Mental Illness"

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Quite often, I'll say to someone, "What are you doing about autism inclusion in your group?", and they will respond by sayi...
Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Successful Meetings with Autistic Experts

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I'm going to generalise.  Always ask what works.  But, generalising... Autistic people won't meet you unless we can: a) Guess w...