Neurodiversity
I am Autistic and ADHD, some might affectionately refer to me as AuDHD. However, to think that these two diagnostic categories tell the whole story of my neurodivergence is to miss out on a significant part of my experience of our shared reality. The truth is, I don't
Mental Health
This article was co-authored by David Gray-Hammond and Katie Munday When Katie and I set out to write today, we knew we wanted to do something new. While there has been a great deal of discussion around parenting school-age Autistic children, Katie and I are both parents to younger children
Addiction
Today, I received my first 1 star review for one of my books on Amazon. Within the review, they stated that my 6 years of sobriety (it's actually 7 now) was merely a blip, and that I would not be sober until it was at least 60 years.
Autistic Wellbeing
This article was co-authored by David Gray-Hammond and Tanya Adkin This article includes exerts from interviews conducted by David, all interviewee's gave their permission for quotes to be used. Tanya has demand avoided weighing in on this topic for quite some time. Not for no good reason. Tanya
Trauma
Much in the way that historical research around autism has looked at young, white boys, creating bias in the diagnostic criteria (which is responsible for an unfathomable amount of harm); we are creating diagnostic (but not) tools for PDA that exclude intellectually disabled Autistic people. No wond
disability
Autism elicits a wide range of responses from people. In the Autistic community, we are relatively protected from harmful views on our existence if we wish to be. For many of us, however, there is the ever-present threat of our existence being used to enforce beliefs that are overtly harmful.
Neurodiversity
This article was written by an anonymous guest author This post references: UN Special Rapporteur on Torture UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities UK Mental Health Act (1983) We are at a pivotal crossroads on our path towards a fairer society, faced with a monumental issue that,
Neurodiversity
By now, you're probably aware that the BBC is positioning itself as a whistle-blower in a scandal regarding the misdiagnosis of ADHD by private psychiatrists. While I am reticent to say that it doesn't happen (of course it does, humans are awfully inexact creatures and psychiatry
Trauma
This article takes a deep dive into the statistics and laws around the use of restraint and the way it is harming children, and highlighting the hypocrisy of the UK government.
disability
Challenging behaviour. It's a term we have likely all heard. It projects images of violent children, unruly and disruptive to the children who behave in the way expected of them. However, this particular term has been used to frame Autistic experience as an abberation of human expression and
Neurofuturism
Neuroqueer theory has been the single most important idea to emerge from the academic circles of neurodiversity into my own life. I say that with a hint of irony; neurodiversity is my life. It's all our lives. Neurodiversity is a fact of human existence. Yet, to not perform
Addiction
I am really excited to tell you all that I ha e published a new book! Unusual Medicine: Essays on Autistic identity and drug addiction This book explores my personal experiences with being Autistic and addicted to drugs and alcohol. It considers my recovery and what was unique about my