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Autistic Suicide and Suicidal Ideation
Why is the rate of suicide so high in autistic people, and what can be done about it?
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Zoe Williams
- Nov 9, 2022
- 5 min
Late Identification of Autism
by Zoe Williams Finding out you are Autistic as an adult can be like peeling layers off an onion or a blurry image slowly coming into...
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Esther Whitney
- Oct 14, 2022
- 2 min
Personal Account: Juggling chronic health conditions, Autistic parenthood and University
Trying to dodge hurtling bricks by Esther Whitney (artist name: Dr Doom) I have chronic and debilitating migraines; I have suffered from...
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Ruth Jenks
- Jul 22, 2022
- 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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Ruth Jenks
- Feb 22, 2022
- 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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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
- 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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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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Rox Nicholl
- Nov 1, 2020
- 2 min
Autistic Parents UK stance on ABA
Applied Behavioural Analysis (ABA) is a “therapy”* for autism that aims to suppress autistic behaviours in children so that they can...
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