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Our blog is written by and for Autistic parents. If you would like to contribute to our blog as a volunteer or guest blogger please get in touch. Guidelines for guest bloggers can be found here.
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Autistic Life Hacks: Housework Edition
This blog post covers ways to make housework more manageable, suggested by our members, who are all autistic parents themselves.
Zoe APUK
Apr 6, 20249 min read
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Understanding Gender Identity for Autistic Parents
Information and advice on understanding gender identity for autistic parents.
Zoe APUK
Feb 1, 20235 min read
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Neuroqueer Parenting
by Guest: David Gray-Hammond Neuroqueering is the practice of subverting or "queering" our embodiment and expression of our neurology. It...
David Gray-Hammond
Jan 17, 20233 min read
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Autistic Burnout in Parenthood
by Zoe Williams Autistic burnout is an experience that is only just beginning to gain formal recognition, despite the fact that Autistic...
Zoe Williams
Dec 28, 20225 min read
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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...
Esther Whitney
Oct 14, 20222 min read
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School Attendance
by Zoe Williams School attendance is a hot topic, with the government making it a top priority and schools giving out rewards for high...
Zoe Williams
Oct 14, 20223 min read
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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...
Zoe Williams
Sep 3, 20228 min read
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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...
Becks Harper
Jun 19, 20222 min read
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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...
Jenni McCabe
May 22, 20224 min read
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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...
Esther Whitney
Feb 5, 20222 min read
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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...
Autistic Parents UK
Jan 9, 20222 min read
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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...
Ruth Jenks
Aug 6, 20213 min read
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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...
Rox Nicholl
Nov 1, 20202 min read
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