Tag: neurodivergent
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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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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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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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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…
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Do you ever think that you feel the world differently? Do you ever feel like you don’t fit in?
A guide for recognition and identification. Do you ever feel like you don’t fit in but can’t understand why? Does it ever seem like you are feeling the world around you differently to others? Do you ever find life confusing or chaotic? Have you ever thought that people don’t understand you? Do you feel that…
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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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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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Inclusion, equality and diversity in education.
And this means banning ABA! Why are we still trying to force neurodivergent children into social skills and strategies that are created by neurotypical brains based on neurotypical beliefs and expectations? What impact is this having on young minds when continually told that they are not ok as they are. All over the world, including…
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You don’t need to try and make me better.
For family and friends, for teachers and specialists, for colleagues and for people that I meet on the bus. Often when I speak to parents and teachers I realise that we don’t understand each other. This is understandable because we broadcast on different wavelengths. I realised that there is so much I don’t understand about…
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Neurodiversity week presentation.
Feeling The World Differentlyfeelingtheworlddifferently.co.uk School Neurodiversity Presentation for Parents. Why are we here? Why are we talking about this? Well, it is amazing and wonderful that your school and your marvellous teachers have decided to do this. It means so much to me that people are starting to want to know more. It will mean…
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My autism means that I feel and see and hear the world differently.
My hope is that difference can be seen as equal; my dream is that neuro differences will be understood for what they really are, and for what they really are not. Understanding difference might just be good for us all. They say that you should never judge a book by its cover. I’m not really…
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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…
Autism ADHD and so much more. 