Monday, 28 May 2018

"If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism"? Read on...

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Turning the pages of a book, I read the words of an autism researcher.  What's the point of the word 'autism', they asked, if...
Sunday, 27 May 2018

That group includes autistic people?

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I am grateful to an online colleague for mentioning this diagram.  It shows different levels of attitudes to a group.  How much that group...
Friday, 18 May 2018

Driving Whilst Autistic

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I have had some interesting conversations around autism and driving, this week.  It led me to look at some research into this.  It is fai...
Monday, 7 May 2018

Dear Church. You know I love you. But we need to talk.

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Dear beloved church of mine.  You know I have spent 20 years serving you? As an adviser who has co-written Policy for the Archbisho...
Sunday, 15 April 2018

“You don’t know what it is like to be an Autism Carer”

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I see a lot of my autistic colleagues being told this. I have been told this, often. It comes from a deep misunderstanding of autism. I a...
Saturday, 7 April 2018

Autism Mythbusting: Employment.

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"Only 16% of autistic people are meaningfully employed".  Quite often we see that said or written, in the UK, in various form...
Saturday, 24 March 2018

Social Worker Training and Autism

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For a good few years now, I and other autistic professionals have been training Social Workers.  Sometimes, trainees, but more often ones...