Tag: Non speaking

  • Helping our younger selves

    Helping our younger selves

    The author shares the challenges of being a neurodivergent person who wants to support others like them. They express frustration at not being taken seriously in conversations about neurodivergent children, and highlight the harmful impact of society’s attitudes. They emphasize the need for genuine understanding and support for neurodivergent individuals and their families.

  • My thoughts on BBC’s Inside Our Autistic Minds

    My thoughts on BBC’s Inside Our Autistic Minds

    Despite my initial worry, the first episode – and I’m hoping the ones that follow – show Autistic experiences, namely that of Chris Packham himself, Murray (a non-speaking Autistic man) and Flo, an Autistic woman who has been long term masking with everyone in her life…