still alive - the retirement of the forum
Hey all, two things. Thing 1: I am still kicking about - hoping to re-commit to this again some time this side of the decade (if I had a...
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June 2022 - autistic burnout.
before we start, yes I changed the font. I know some people notice this stuff, especially autistic people, and I just want to acknowledge...
May 2022 - Special interests
Okay, so I'm sitting around, watching YouTube, and suddenly realise it's been three hours since I started this series on creating an...
08/04/2022 - prenatal testing: an unnecessary pain
Here we go again with another post. Today I want to cover something a little controversial. Prenatal testing: the process of testing a...
AUTISM ACCEPTANCE MONTH 2022: MASKING - THE BASICS
Here we go. Another year, another Autism acceptance month, where companies and allistic saviours will climb back onto their high horses...
Simon Baron-Cohen and the Theory of Mind: why research is not always right.
Time for my first post in a very long time. My mental health has been all over the place for a while, and everything has been put off to...
end of 2021 - where have I been?
hey all, thought I'd go about providing an update regarding where I've been for the last two months. It was never my intention to miss...
October 2021 - Autism & the education system
before we start this, a warning: on some social media platforms lately, there have been people promoting the use of BLUE pumpkins to...
17/09/2021 - Spectrum10K part 2 (aka why being an Autistic advocate can be a nightmare)
welcome back for another post. Thought I'd update everyone on the state of the Spectrum10K incident from last month. after a long stream...
September 2021 - why Autistic people have had a terrible year
so I was thinking about what I wanted to write for this month's post, and I remembered a tweet I made the other day, talking about how...
25/08/2021 - Spectrum10K (aka why eugenics is a bad thing)
Another day, another post. I apologize in advance if there are any errors in this, I'm writing this on my phone while out, which makes it...
19/08/2021 - The Plymouth Shooting
Right. Due to the level of controversy and how fresh this incident is, I did not want to cover this all that much, but the amount of...
August 2021 - Ableism and stereotypes
welcome back for another monthly post (even if July was a very busy month for posts, so monthly might be the wrong word there.) I...
22/07/2021 - the "costs" of Autism
well, I didn't intend to start writing at midnight, but I also didn't intend to see an article officially published in the 2021 Journal...
20/07/2021 - The JRC part 2 - a follow-up
just about two weeks ago, I made a post discussing a very distressing topic based around a school in Massachusetts, US. called the Judge...
07/07/2021 - #StopTheShock & the JRC
wow this is not a post I wanted to have to make, but here we are. This'll take me a while to write, since this will be emotionally...
July 2021 - The history of Autism
wow, July already. Time's flying this year. it's been an active month for this blog, with me introducing the other two writers at the...
hello you horrible people
Heya, I'm Esther. I spend my time writing blog posts when I should be revising for my RS exams. Seriously now: I am autistic (shocking, I...
BLOG UPDATE: another new writer.
hey everyone, following the previous update a few days ago, I have added one more writer to join myself & JJ, so I'll let Esther...
Hello All!
My name is JJ! Like Josh I also have Autism and whilst we are similar in a lot of ways (we both hate loud noises and are very analytical)...
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