Saturday, 20 July 2019

ABA. Continued Concerns.

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Above, a photo showing a collection of glass marbles.  I used to collect them, as a child.  I'd study them for hours, watching the wa...
Friday, 5 July 2019

Autistic Cure. What Do We Mean?

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There is much debate about cure, amongst autistic people, families and society.  Some of it useful.  Some of it generating a lot of anxie...
Friday, 21 June 2019

The churches, safeguarding, autism, and the dark spaces

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The photograph shows a shadow of a person, against a dim alleyway.  We've all walked in such a space, I expect, in the dim of evening...
Friday, 7 June 2019

The incorrect idea that autistic people are naturally horrible

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One of the oldest of the myths about autism is around alleged deliberately-abusive-behaviour from autistic people. I want to talk abou...
Saturday, 25 May 2019

Panorama & Beyond: Treatment of Vulnerable People in Care Homes & ATUs.

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In the UK, the BBC Panorama team investigated a secure care setting.  In it, various autistic people, and people with learning disabi...
Monday, 13 May 2019

Autistic People. So, new Research. Different social skills, not broken ones.

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For decades, autistic people have been told that our way of socialising and co-operating is a broken version of the 'real thing...
Sunday, 5 May 2019

Primary School Age Child - Might They Be Autistic?

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Some professionals and parents have been given autism 'checklists' that are 20 years out of date. Not at all useful when trying ...