Thursday, 20 September 2018

Autistic and Trying to Find a Faith Community?

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I'll start by saying that this contains discussion of faith communities whose behaviour hasn't been ideal, further down, so com...
Tuesday, 4 September 2018

What do we mean by autistic females? A third are Gender Diverse.

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We need to talk about autistic females, and what we mean by that. Rita George has been working on this subject for some years.  The pic...
Sunday, 26 August 2018

The joys and benefits of autistic people.

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I was reading some research papers today.  One paper was pretty shocking.  It said that researchers are often told to report only negative...
Wednesday, 15 August 2018

Autism, School, Exclusion. What's fair?

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The picture shows a school classroom as I see it, as an autistic person.  A kaleidoscope of shape and blinding lighting, with vague outl...
Friday, 3 August 2018

Stairs and Autism

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"Why are stairs a problem for some autistic people?"  We get that question a lot from trainee Occupational Therapists and Socia...
Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Autism, Christianity, LGBTQ. Why it's important. Safeguarding. Caring.

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There are different beliefs about God and what he thinks of LGBT+ people.   In the Church of England, it's still a difficult subje...
Sunday, 29 July 2018

What do I mean by "We're OK being Autistic" ? #TakeTheMaskOff

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I'm OK being autistic. Just saying that is controversial.  There are all sorts of responses, when autistic people say that.  For ...