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A short Q&A for Autism Acceptance Month
I was asked these questions as part of a bigger project and thought I would share here too. How has being diagnosed as autistic impacted on your life? Being formally diagnosed has allowed me to understand myself and to put into place things which help me. It has given me the validation and permission I…
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Trans Day of Visibility – stay proud, stay safe
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When living authentically isn’t safe: Autistic, trans and OCD
This is the transcript from my OCD Family Podcast: When living authentically isn’t safe. Listen to S1E30 Part IV here. Nicole: Whoa, welcome back to the OCD family podcast and I am just so excited to introduce our guest today Katie Munday, they are late diagnosed autistic person with OCD and ADHD. You can catch…
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My Autistic diagnosis story
I started working with Disabled young people when I was 23. Working with these young people, seeing how they went about in the world, how they focused on their interests, and their wonderful sense of humour. I just thought: “I do that. I completely and utterly understand what you mean when you say something which…
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The New Normal audiobook review
I have had the pleasure to listen to Emergent Divergence audiobook The New Normal: Autistic musings on the threat of a broken society. It is perhaps more poignant and powerful when listened to than simply read. The narrator Christopher Harper-Cox brings something to the reading with his deep resonance. The audio version brings to life…
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Understanding Autistic friendships
Friendships have always been something I have struggled with, I have always been more ‘in to’ the person than they are me. I used to put so much of myself into my connections that when things ended it felt heartbreaking. I was basing friendships off TV shows like Friends and Fraser – that friends should…
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My thoughts on BBC’s Inside Our Autistic Minds
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Fighting for the right to exist
Advocating for yourself and others – in whatever way you do it – is one of the hardest jobs a person will ever do. We go about our everyday lives overly aware that we live within systems and societies which hate, fear and ignore us in equal measure. We fight against microaggressions and violence every…
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Autistic Shielding: Being authentic is a privilege
Cw: racism, violence, murder, police brutality. Autistic Shielding is not a tool or headstate that we can all obtain in our current world. A lot of us fear being our authentic Autistic selves for many reasons. We can be vulnerable people due to our trusting nature and differences in reading social interactions. Add intersecting identities…
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Trans and Autistic: Gate-keeping kills
CW: transphobia, gate-keeping, ableism, mental health crisis, police brutality, murder. Lack of support and validation for trans Autistic children and adults can culminate in fatalities, such as the case of Kayden Clarke, an Autistic trans man who was murdered by police when they responded to his suicide call. Clarke had experienced gate-keeping throughout his transition,…