Tag: Abuse
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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 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…
