Tag: anxiety
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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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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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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…
Autism ADHD and so much more. 