Category: neuro difference
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Ordinary lives lived in extraordinary ways.
Autism stories from around the world. My research for my Post Grad Diploma in Autism Studies with the National Autistic Society sadly highlighted that we are not really seen and heard. And when we are, it is often not in the way that we want, and need, it to be. The fact that we are…
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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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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…
Autism ADHD and so much more. 