Tag: women and autism
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
Autism ADHD and so much more. 