Tag: actuallyautistic
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Oh so I don’t look autistic you say? Thank goodness you are here.
But you don’t look like you are autistic I am nearly speechless every time I hear this. Only nearly speechless. I am never speechless. The thoughts are constant and if they are not spilling out onto the paper, then you can be sure they will be dashing into your airspace. Well, where else are they…
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Autism myths, misconceptions and misunderstanding 1.
A common myth or misconception or misunderstanding seems to be around the way that autistic people feel within the world. Without an understanding of the varied and intense sensory experiences of autistic people it is understandable that this is misunderstood and misjudged. To further complicate this, most people don’t really know how another actually feels.
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Autism myths, misunderstanding and misconceptions 2.
Autism is not a tragedy, but living in a society that doesn’t understand it can be – Dr Beardon. The bowl and the spoon or reliability points. The original idea for this is the marvellous Dr Luke Beardon, Professor of Autism Studies. The possibilities of each new day are endless and unknown, so if just…
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Feeling The World Differently.
Exploring the ways that autism changes the way that I feel and hear and see the world. Autism as it really is, and as it really isn’t.
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Why didn’t anyone tell me that being different was ok?
Trigger warning – at first I was confused and scared and unable to see the positives of being me. Now, 5 years on, I write and present and coach in order to challenge and change the myths, the misconceptions and the misunderstanding. I now know that so many of us feel and see and hear…
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My autiphany
I’d like to talk to you about realising that I am autistic. My autiphany if you like. And just to add a small trigger warning here. Not all of this will be jolly because I want to be honest. I’d be disingenuous if I pretended that initially I was pleased. In fact, I was probably…
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Feeling The World Differently
I have no idea how you see and hear and feel the world around you. I have no idea about how it really is because I am not you. From words shared and experiences divulged I might figure out that the pain I feel if I stub my toe, is the same, or at least…
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Do we want to be different or equal or both?
Martijn Dekker created Independent ‘Living on the Autistic Spectrum ‘in 1996, with the hope and intention of inclusivity and open debate and discussion and understanding. In the 2019 book ‘Autism: A New Introduction to Psychological Theory and Current Debate’ Happé and Watson report that he reluctantly concluded that when hoping to meet and belong to…
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What’s this thing like? Do I have it? How would I know? ( I keep being asked if there is a list.)
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 disease and that it would be preferable if it wasn’t spoken about in this way. But the truth is, that often it is, and often by people who are…
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Autism and empathy. Another myth that we need to get rid of.
Autism and empathy – too much of it actually!
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Would a translation guide be helpful?
Switch to draftViewUpdate Let me try and translate. During a recent training day which focussed on the presentation of girls and women with Autism, Tony Attwood discussed what he calls ‘the Italian traffic lights.’ Just as Italian drivers often seem to fail to recognise the red light, so autistic girls and women often don’t see…
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Why are all of the words for diagnosis negative?
Switch to draftViewUpdate The diagnostic criteria. We need to change the words! I have decided to take offence. Everyone else seems to be taking offence at anything and everything, and so I have decided to join in. So maybe I do not have difficulty interacting with my peers after all? All of the words are…
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Oh so I don’t look autistic you say? Thank goodness you are here.
Switch to draftViewUpdate But you don’t look like you are autistic I am nearly speechless every time I hear this. Only nearly speechless. I am never speechless. The thoughts are constant and if they are not spilling out onto the paper, then you can be sure they will be dashing into your airspace. Well, where else are…
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