Monday, 17 May 2021

Apparently autistic people should not use headphones to help with noise sensitivity. Really?

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  A collaborative team of behaviourists and Psychiatrists wrote a research paper, in 2021.  They claimed that an autistic teenager with an i...
Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Most Autistic People Don't Like Curved Walls

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  Above, a poll result from Twitter.  I'd asked whether autistic people preferred walls that were straight, or curved, inside buildings....
Wednesday, 27 January 2021

Problems with ABA. An Easier Guide.

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  Applied Behaviour Analysis is often called ABA. The list below is things that are true for 'pure ABA'.  There could be some ABA te...
Monday, 25 January 2021

Autism: Late Diagnosis and the Impact of the Scaremongering

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  Late diagnosis, as an autistic person.   For me, it has been a good thing, mostly.  Those that already cared about me weren't surprise...
Monday, 14 December 2020

Autistic Children Respond Differently to Something Scary. Why?

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  Let's imagine we're in a village in a farming community somewhere where there are wild animals that could threaten our community m...
Friday, 27 November 2020

Autistic People and 'Theory of Mind'. Brace yourselves.

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  I did some mythbusting on Twitter, as I often do.  This question, above, was asking autistic people if they thought others around them wer...
Saturday, 14 November 2020

Living in Love and Faith - How the CofE failed the autistic LGBT+ people

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  In November 2020, the Church of England produced a website filled with books, videos, papers etc about Christians and what people think of...