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...
The trials and tribulations of a British woman with a diagnosis of Aspergers.
Naturally we include the obligatory autism reference to a piece of jigsaw puzzle!
Because obviously we're the forgotten about pieces of puzzle that go under the sofa yet without us, the jigsaw is incomplete.
Because you know, its a website about autism so there's got to be the obligatory jigsaw reference!
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At one of the sites I work at, I have a little lunch time routine. I quite like pasta and I am blessed to work at a place where the food is...
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Here's an extremely contentious view to start off with but I am wondering if autism does exist , after some of the reading I have been d...
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As I was driving into work today I could feel this sudden gust of anger. I feel like I need to make sense of these feelings and state my abs...
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I suppose it might be useful to explain how I was diagnosed with autism. I wasn't diagnosed through school or as a preschooler like many...
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"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." In the play "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Juliet sugges...
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I decided that I would be proactive at work and request that HR refer me to occupational health. What I wanted was to have my autistic ne...
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The other day this blog entry appeared and it seemed to get parts of the autistic world in quite an upset although its been around a while:...
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I was recently asked by a mother whether her daughter, who was starting to look for employment, should declare her autism on her job applica...
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I was going through some cupboards and found a folder of old school reports. Some were from primary school and some from secondary. I deci...
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So I stumbled on this news article about a town in Northern Ireland that is "autism-friendly": http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/n...
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