Autism ADHD and so much more.

Living an autistic and ADHD life. What's it really like? I explore how I feel the world differently and challenge the myths, the misunderstanding and the misconceptions.

I am not sure that society understands the many ways that people feel, and hear, and see the world differently. And I would like us to change that.

The negative language and lists of deficits and impairments drive the stereotypes and make people reluctant to recognise or identify that they may be neurodivergent or neurodifferent. I am autistic, ADHD and dyspraxic but so many other conditions and issues affect neurology. Some we are born with and some, like depression, anxiety, PTSD and CPTSD, we acquire through life and trauma, abuse and accident.

Tag: neurodiversity

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…

Tracy Clements

Apr 12, 2024

Feeling The World Differently

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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…

Tracy Clements

Apr 3, 2024

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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…

Tracy Clements

Apr 3, 2024

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Sensory experiences and feeling the world differently. A new collaborative project. Our voices; our way.

I am creating a new book exploring the amazing ways that we feel the world differently. If you have time to read my proposal and would like to collaborate, I can’t wait to hear from you. As part of my MA study of Autism I have been researching sensory experiences and have realised that very…

Tracy Clements

Nov 2, 2023

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