I recently saw this news article in the Guardian: What kind of person would drag autistic children into the culture wars? The Kemi Badenoch kind, written by John Harris.This is a difficult article (not because of the writer) and I respond to it below.When I got my diagnosis over 20 years ago, I got a two-sided letter from the specialist, cc'd into my GP. On it, the only support I got was a little list of self-help groups and a name of a...
Saturday, 19 October 2024
Friday, 1 March 2024
Masks: to wear or not to wear
I thought I better complete this entry from 2020 that I started.... I want to make clear from the outset that I think people should wear face coverings if they can reasonably do so in their bit to tackle Covid-19.I am extremely aware that if we don't all pull together, we can't get our lives and society back to some state of normality. That said, for some people, wearing a face-covering can be significantly distressing.And this is me. I...
