Tag: autism and travel
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Autism, ADHD and a wonderfully different way of seeing, and hearing, and feeling the world.
Let’s dispel some of the myths, misconceptions and misunderstanding! Well after lots of kind words of encouragement I have decided to talk some more about my autistic brain and the way I see things. If me talking about this helps more girls and women to not have to wait over 50 years to recognise themselves,…
Autism ADHD and so much more. 