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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)....
Esther Whitney
Feb 15, 20222 min read
Personal Account: Breastfeeding as an Autistic Parent
By Esther Whitney (artist name: Doctor Doom) Content overview: Discussion of difficult breastfeeding experience and unsupportive...
Esther Whitney
Feb 9, 20222 min read
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
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
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...
Ruth Jenks
Oct 30, 20212 min read
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....
Ruth Jenks
Oct 29, 20211 min read
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...
Ruth Jenks
Oct 6, 20212 min read
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
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...
Ruth Jenks
Apr 9, 20212 min read
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...
Ruth Jenks
Jan 23, 20213 min read
Know Your Birth Rights
[Video/audio reading available soon] Having knowledge about pregnancy and birth is important for reducing anxiety and becoming your own...
Ruth Jenks
Jan 23, 20213 min read
Spoon Theory
[Video/Audio reading available soon] You don’t have to spend much time amongst neurodivergent people to come across the term ‘spoons’....
Ruth Jenks
Jan 22, 20211 min read
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.
Ruth Jenks
Jan 14, 20214 min read
Neurodiversity
For a long time, Autism, ADHD, dyspraxia and dyslexia were seen as deficits in the functioning of the brain. Normal brains are “right”...
Rox Nicholl
Nov 1, 20201 min read
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
Babies – Solving the Sensory Challenges
[Video/audio reading available soon] This is not about making the sensory experience of your baby better. This is about making your...
Rox Nicholl
Nov 1, 20206 min read
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