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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, 20225 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, 20222 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, 20222 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, 20222 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, 20212 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, 20211 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, 20212 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, 20213 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, 20212 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, 20211 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, 20201 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, 20202 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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