Friday, 16 November 2018

Autism, School Examinations & Tests

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How do we measure autistic abilities in a meaningful way?  This is a situation that faces most teaching staff, given that 1 in 30 scho...
Saturday, 20 October 2018

Autism - Consent. And about not consenting.

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Content warning for abuse. In the UK this week, newspaper headlines have detailed the life of a young autistic woman.  She is reported ...
Sunday, 14 October 2018

Irresponsible Information: Autism

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Content warning.  I'm going to discuss some really shocking and untrue statements about autism from professionals.  These are ones th...
Saturday, 6 October 2018

Autism, Transgender and Avoiding Tragedy

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Warning for discussion of suicide. Long, happy, healthy lives.  It's something we want for all autistic people, I think we can agre...
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...