Recent Posts

• Autistic masking – everything you wanted to know about ‘passing’ or ‘camouflaging’ as an autist
• Autistic burnout – what it it and how can we prevent it? (Autism / Asperger’s / ASC)
• What’s echolalia; and is it an early sign of autism or Asperger’s?
• The elephant in the room – it’s time to write about environmental toxins and autism; & how they may affect autistic individuals (written with a healthy dose of cynicism)
• Inflexible (black and white) thinking, common in autists, can be linked to negativity. We examine the phenomenon, plus find ten positive traits of b&w thinking (ASD / ASC)
• Judgements from families and educators, towards parents of undiagnosed autists: “I wouldn’t worry – we’re all a little bit autistic, aren’t we?” – and other stock-phrases
• The autism filter – and how it relates to an autistic child, and any challenging behaviour
• Talking Taki-Taki – discussing communication differences between autistic individuals and neurotypicals; and why NT’s find autists ‘different’ (Asperger’s / ASD /ASC)
• Growing up aspie in 1970s and 1980s Britain (asd, asc)
• The emotional cutlery drawer of spoons, and the ‘social hangover’ (ASD, ASC, Asperger’s)