Category: Feeling The World Differently
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Autism, ADHD and other friends. How would I know?
If you need help, support or just a chat please find me anywhere. If your friends, family or organisation might benefit from talking about autism, ADHD and other friends then I coach and teach and present along with creating videos and books. https://feelingtheworlddifferently.co.uk/ https://a.co/d/aL98bIv My short guide to all of this is on Amazon at…
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Do you have a social media profile?
Why is this needed for me to exist? Am I only valid if someone likes my story? How can we tell the stories of ordinary people living extraordinary lives if we reject them based on the likes of others? Do you have a story to share? I would like to find a way to hear…
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An autistic journey.
It is the trip of a lifetime. (I am never sure if I am travelling, if I am hiding, surviving, or just running away. Is there actually a difference I wonder?) People say that they will only publish if you are able to change perceptions about people and places. If you try to publish, they…
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Do you have anything else? The story of Heathrow Airport and my Sunflower Lanyard.
“We are all of us exceedingly complex creatures and do ourselves a service in regarding ourselves as complex. Otherwise, we live in a dream world of non-existent, simplistic black and white notions which simply do not apply to life.” Theodore Rubin, American psychologist. I am not a psychologist or a psychiatrist; I am not a…
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When I say autism, what do you say? But what do you really think?
http://feelingtheworlddifferently.co.uk If I say autism, what do you say? If I say autism, what do you think? Can people ever care about things that don’t affect them? If I wander out into the street now and ask a random selection of people what they think the term neurodiversity means, they will firstly panic because…
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Autism and ADHD recognition and identification. Just a list about me. But some of it might be you?
People ask me how they would know if they are autistic and ADHD. They ask me what it is like and they ask me if they might have it. I know that those are very controversial questions and use lots of nouns and verbs that are deemed unacceptable. I know that it is not a…
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Autism and abuse. This needs talking about.
Recently I asked a group of autistic women if they felt that their autism was a disability. What they said was not what I was expecting. I expected something about sensory differences or social expectations and exclusion. And whilst all of those are true for most of us, most of the time, they were not…
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Consistence, security and trust.
When life is precarious, these are what I wish for. I’m Tracy and I am trying to challenge and change the way that different ways of feeling the world are understood. I am fed up with the myths, the misconceptions and the misunderstanding that I encounter every day. I have been creating short Instagram Reels…
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Do you ever think that you feel the world differently? Do you ever feel like you don’t fit in?
A guide for recognition and identification. Do you ever feel like you don’t fit in but can’t understand why? Does it ever seem like you are feeling the world around you differently to others? Do you ever find life confusing or chaotic? Have you ever thought that people don’t understand you? Do you feel that…
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Can society ever be friendly to difference?
I want to write this today because I am scared that the answer is no. Does that sound too negative and pessimistic? https://amzn.eu/d/22kJnHo As part of my MA in Autism Studies, I researched and wrote about this. My essay is available for free on Amazon Kindle called Can Society Ever Be Autism Friendly. For some…
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Feeling The World Differently and The Sensory Experiences Project.
Our mission statement. Those of us who feel and see and hear the world differently would like to be seen and heard and understood. We are different but we are equal. I work with schools and parents’ groups and find far too much ignorance and discrimination. I liaise and present to business and hospitality and…
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The Sensory Experiences Project
Newsletter for November Can society ever be friendly to people who feel the world differently? For fifty years I believed, naively, that we all felt the world in the same way, and presumed that I just wasn’t doing it well enough. I presumed that I was the problem. And since everyone around me told me…
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Reliability points or as I like to call it – Camping at Base Camp on Everest.
All material is taken from my book Feeling The World Differently. Copyright owned by me. https://amzn.eu/d/jk0pcEv I am not an expert on neurotypicals but in over fifty years I have seen lots and read lots. More recently I have read and researched the neurodivergent brain. So, I know that they are different. (Some people don’t…
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Does difference matter? Should you care?
Can we create a society that includes us all? I would like to try, but I can’t do it on my own. I am looking for volunteers who would be willing to share their ways of feeling the world differently. Sensory experiences are often overlooked and misunderstood, even by ourselves. I have a short video…
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The Sensory Experiences Project.
Our voices; our way. If you feel the world differently and would like to live in a society that is more friendly to neuro differences, then please join our project and share your story. I have posted a much longer piece about this because, as I always say, I would have said less, but I…
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Sensory experiences and feeling the world differently. A new collaborative project. Our voices; our way.
I am creating a new book exploring the amazing ways that we feel the world differently. If you have time to read my proposal and would like to collaborate, I can’t wait to hear from you. As part of my MA study of Autism I have been researching sensory experiences and have realised that very…
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Inclusion, equality and diversity in education.
And this means banning ABA! Why are we still trying to force neurodivergent children into social skills and strategies that are created by neurotypical brains based on neurotypical beliefs and expectations? What impact is this having on young minds when continually told that they are not ok as they are. All over the world, including…
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You don’t need to try and make me better.
For family and friends, for teachers and specialists, for colleagues and for people that I meet on the bus. Often when I speak to parents and teachers I realise that we don’t understand each other. This is understandable because we broadcast on different wavelengths. I realised that there is so much I don’t understand about…
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Neurodiversity week presentation.
Feeling The World Differentlyfeelingtheworlddifferently.co.uk School Neurodiversity Presentation for Parents. Why are we here? Why are we talking about this? Well, it is amazing and wonderful that your school and your marvellous teachers have decided to do this. It means so much to me that people are starting to want to know more. It will mean…
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My autism means that I feel and see and hear the world differently.
My hope is that difference can be seen as equal; my dream is that neuro differences will be understood for what they really are, and for what they really are not. Understanding difference might just be good for us all. They say that you should never judge a book by its cover. I’m not really…
Autism ADHD and so much more. 