behaviour modification therapy does work
Content note: In this article I discuss behaviour modification therapy, address some of the arguments for it, exploring whether it works, and whether it is ethical.
blue lights won’t help me
Content note: this article talks about autism awareness campaigns from the perspective of an autistic person who doesn’t like them.
A severe problem
Content note: In this article I address some of the problematic ways autism is stereotyped and stigmatised, with some focus on severity labels, or functioning labels.
My needs are not “special”
Content note: In this article I explain why I don’t like or use the term “special needs” and why I don’t see the needs I have as a disabled persona s being “special”.
Thoughts on criticism
Content note: In this article I share memories from my childhood, situational mutism and other communication challenges, and my response to people who criticise me because I am Autistic.
The venom of awareness
It’s my first April publicly identifying as Autistic. I have very deliberately over the past few years made sure I do not expose myself to the negative rhetoric that goes on, but this year it has been brought to me in a very personal way through a hateful comment left on my blog.
Thoughts on acceptance
Every now and then, not really frequently, but often enough that I am going to say something about it, I see a sentiment brought into conversations by non-autistic parents of Autistic children that goes along the lines of ….
learning from my past
I know we can’t change the past. I know that things in our past help us become who we are, and that is often a really positive thing.
But she had wings
There is something about growing, changing, identifying parts of yourself that you had not recognised, that is deeply unsettlingly liberating. I have been struggling to put words to it. Then today, this beautiful butterfly sat in my path.
I am tired of the Autism tragedy song: Can we change the music now?
I am tired. So, so tired. It is not a lack of sleep tiredness, but a heaviness in the core of my being kind of tiredness.
