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CAMHS Mistreatment of Autistic young people: A case study
I have explored (extensively) the issues with Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in England. The particular focus of my writing has been their mistreatment of Autistic children and young people. Something I haven't touched on is there well documented mishandling of processes around the assessment and
neurofuturism
Cavendish Spaces, Niche Construction, and Nesting
David with Ryan Boren
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Creating Autistic Suffering: Interoceptive stimming or “challenging behaviour”?
Autism
Creating Autistic Suffering: Interoceptive stimming or "challenging behaviour"?
TW: Discusses Challenging Behaviour, Disordered Eating, Sex and Related Activities, Self-Injury, and Victimisation Recently David posted an infographic about interoceptive stimming. This proved to be a very popular topic and we felt it necessary to expand on this more via this series. In our experie
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Reclaiming Neurofuturism: Understanding neuronormativity and the containment of Autistic experience
disability
Reclaiming Neurofuturism: Understanding neuronormativity and the containment of Autistic experience
Much of western society is predicated on the idea that knowledge consists of a variety of objective truths. When we hear the word "disability" or "autism" we are guided to understand the word in a particular way. This unfortunately fails to capture the dynamic and highly
medical model of disability
A maddening performance
On the embodiment and enactment of madness
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CAMHS have been contributing to the death of Autistic young people for over a decade
Trauma
CAMHS have been contributing to the death of Autistic young people for over a decade
I was recently sent a BBC article regarding multiple deaths of Autistic young people occurring despite coroners issuing "prevention of future death" (PFD) notices. These notices are only issued when a person's death is the result of systemic failings and are issued when changes need to
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Reclaiming Neurofuturism: Autistic embodiment and the enactment of neurodivergence
disability
Reclaiming Neurofuturism: Autistic embodiment and the enactment of neurodivergence
When we seek to describe our Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent selves, we tend towards discrete categories and observable definitions of what we mean. However, to be Autistic is more than a diagnostic category; while Autism is a defining part of my experience, I also enact neurodivergence. My embodiment gives definition