Mental Health
I am angry. I am beyond angry. I am angry, tired, sad, stressed, and quite frankly, sickened to my core. Since S10k was announced, I have watched as their blithe request for our DNA has traumatised a community that I love beyond measure. My friends and colleagues have poured their
Neurodiversity
The world is not okay. We are not okay. Autistic people are not okay, S10k has served as a stark reminder that we are treated as a burden upon not just the people that we love, but society as a whole. Autistic people are subject to woefully inaccurate and outdated
Mental Health
Written anonymously by a friend On the 24th august an announcement was made Alarm bells rang as a friend was disdained On mainstream media on a pedastool Research was announced treating us like we are fools Processing began…. Numb, shutdown, uncertainty Then came the realisation, this was aimed at me
Autism
We live in a world of false binary systems. It seems that everywhere you go, something is either one thing or another. The same can be said of the Autistic experience. Many people are currently engaged in a long standing argument. Is autism a disability, facilitated by systemic trauma, or
Autistic Rights
It's April, so you know it's about to get real bloody frustrating trying to be heard over the like of Autism Speaks and other problematic groups claiming to represent "people with autism". When it comes to the notorious Autism Speaks there is one thing
Autism
If Sia's film did any good for the autistic community, it opened up a wider conversation about how autistic people are represented and portrayed in popular media. There are very few, if any, perfect representations. One could argue that this is an impossibility anyway, given the diverse nature
Autism
For many years I was at odds with my autistic self. I blamed all of my struggles on being autistic, and truth be told, I wanted to be cured. I was privileged to discover the autistic community a few years ago, here's what I have learned. While autism