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Home Education for Autistic Parents
by Zoe Williams Here in the UK, we are fortunate to have the option to home-educate our children. You may be surprised to learn that...
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Ruth Jenks
- Jul 22
- 2 min
Understanding and Supporting Autistic Communication
by Ruth Jenks During a recent webinar, I was discussing Autistic communication. I was explaining that Autistic people can experience...
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Becks Harper
- Jun 19
- 2 min
Musings on the Family Balancing Act
By Becks Harper, Autistic, wife, mum to 3 sons, crafter of various creations, seeker of deeper understandings and sharer of my mind! I...
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Jenni McCabe
- May 22
- 4 min
Reconsidering Parenting through an Autism Lens
By Jenni McCabe Originally posted on Autistic Social Worker What is Parenting? Parenting is a privilege. You have the responsibility for...
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Esther Whitney
- Apr 4
- 1 min
Personal Account: Anxiety in the Third Trimester
Account and artwork by Esther Whitney (aka Doctor Doom) In the third trimester, I became all-consumed by anxiety about becoming a mother....
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Ruth Jenks
- Feb 22
- 2 min
Self-identification is valid. Formal identification is a privilege.
This statement seems to cause some confusion. Some people seem to believe that this refers solely to the cost of privatised healthcare...
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Esther Whitney
- Feb 15
- 2 min
Personal Account: Bonding with my baby - It wasn’t like a Disney movie
by Esther Whitney (artist name: Dr Doom) Having grown up watching Disney movie after Disney movie (such as The Lion King, Dumbo, etc)....
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Esther Whitney
- Feb 9
- 2 min
Personal Account: Breastfeeding as an Autistic Parent
By Esther Whitney (artist name: Doctor Doom) Content overview: Discussion of difficult breastfeeding experience and unsupportive...
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Esther Whitney
- Feb 5
- 2 min
Personal Account: The Internal Eternal Scream
By Esther Whitney (artist name: Doctor Doom) Content overview: Discussion of child removed from care, trauma and poor treatment from...
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Autistic Parents UK
- Jan 9
- 2 min
Autistic Parenthood with DID
By Autistic Selves After we were first diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), we worked towards total integration of all of...
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Ruth Jenks
- Oct 30, 2021
- 2 min
Autistic People Have Worth
Autistic people have intrinsic worth but it might not be for the reasons you think… There is an argument I see in the neurotypical world...
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Ruth Jenks
- Oct 30, 2021
- 1 min
Autistic People Can Be Parents
Some may think this is fairly obvious coming from this space but the lack of support and resources indicate how invisible we have been....
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Ruth Jenks
- Oct 7, 2021
- 2 min
Being Autistic is an Identity, Not Just a Label.
Parents sometimes seem to worry about seeking diagnosis for their children, adults may even weigh up the options for themselves. As...
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Ruth Jenks
- Aug 6, 2021
- 3 min
It's never too late to change paths
I wanted to write about how the still predominant authoritarian parenting styles of the neurotypical world don’t work for Autistic...
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Ruth Jenks
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
Autistic People Don't Need A Cure
CW: sharing past negative view of Autism Only three years ago I didn’t know much about Autism outside of the mainstream narrative. I knew...
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Ruth Jenks
- Jan 23, 2021
- 3 min
Relationships with Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) during pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period
[Video/audio reading available soon] Evidence suggests a strong and trusting relationship between the pregnant person and their midwife...
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Ruth Jenks
- Jan 23, 2021
- 3 min
Know Your Birth Rights
[Video/audio reading available soon] Having knowledge about pregnancy and birth is important for reducing anxiety and becoming your own...
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Ruth Jenks
- Jan 23, 2021
- 1 min
Spoon Theory
[Video/Audio reading available soon] You don’t have to spend much time amongst neurodivergent people to come across the term ‘spoons’....
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Ruth Jenks
- Jan 15, 2021
- 4 min
The First Trimester of Pregnancy
The first 12 weeks of pregnancy (counting from the first day of the last menstrual cycle) is called the first-trimester.
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Rox Nicholl
- Nov 1, 2020
- 1 min
Neurodiversity
For a long time, Autism, ADHD, dyspraxia and dyslexia were seen as deficits in the functioning of the brain. Normal brains are “right”...
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