Dive into a collection of articles that amplify neurodivergent voices, support a more thorough understanding of neurodiversity, and challenge common misconceptions.
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Author
- Abs S. Ashley
- Adam Fare
- Aimee Fletcher
- Aisling Sheehy
- Ann Memmott
- Antonia Aluko
- Callum Stephen Howes
- Cassandra Lovelock
- Cassandra Lovelock and El Dewar
- Charli Clement
- Claire
- Cos Michael
- Dr Virginia Carter Leno
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- Elise Guthrie Stirling
- Emily Lees
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- Grace Lee
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- Harriet Axbey
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- Helen Edgar
- Iqra Babar
- Jill Corbyn
- Kai Schweizer
- Katrine Callander
- Kay Louise Aldred
- Krysia Waldock
- Lucy Gilbert
- Meena Kumari
- Molly Anderton
- Nick Ransom
- Reesha Zahir
- Rhiannon Williams
- Rod Landman
- Rose Matthews
- Sarah Douglas
- Sarah Boon
- Sophie Broadgate
- Thomas Barnett
- Tina
- Trauma Geek
- Warda Farah
Menstruation in psychiatric inpatient settings
Hat Porter explores the experiences of menstruating whilst in psychiatric inpatient settings, informed by their own lived experience and their latest research, conducted with support from the National Survivor User Network (NSUN).
‘Meet us halfway’—better communication between mental health inpatient staff and Autistic service-users
In this blog, a Guest Contributor shares suggestions, derived from their own lived experience of mental health inpatient services, for how staff can develop better relationships and improve their communication with Autistic services users.
4 Questions For…Authors of Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning: From Babble to Later Life
We sit down to discuss Krysia Waldock and Nathan Keates new edited book, exploring Neurodivergent learning from babble to later life.
Toxic Positivity, Masking and The Importance of a Bad Day
El Dewar shares a surprisingly empowering exploration of bad days, and spotting the restrictions of masking negative emotions with ‘toxic positivity’.
Autism and talking about poor health
In this Lived Experience account, Cos Michael reflects on how their autism may have impacted their emotional processing of a diagnosis of ill-health and their subsequent experience of treatment.
Neurodivergent lived experiences, co-production, and the future of mental health services
To coincide with our involvement as a delivery partner in NHS England’s Culture of Care programme, Cassie Lovelock details the benefits of co-production as a powerful tool for reforming mental health services in a neurodivergent-affirming way.
Autistic, Black and Female: developing healthy friendships safeguarded me from grooming & exploitation
Kay Louise Aldred highlights the sexist expectations and stereotypes that compound the marginalisation of Autistic girls and women, increasing their vulnerability to grooming and coercive and controlling behaviour.
I’ve been easy ‘prey’ as an autistic girl and woman
Kay Louise Aldred highlights the sexist expectations and stereotypes that compound the marginalisation of Autistic girls and women, increasing their vulnerability to grooming and coercive and controlling behaviour.
The power of trusted support networks: how it can be easy to see in others what's hard to see in ourselves
Adam Fare shares their lived experience of grooming and reflects on how Autistic individuals can provide a valuable support network for identifying when others are being groomed.
“Nothing about us without us”
I first came across the above slogan and the ethos of co-producing research roughly two years ago, at the start of my PhD on sleep and mental health in autistic people. My first thought was, “why isn’t everyone in research already doing this?”.
- ABA
- ableism
- abuse
- accessible
- ADHD
- adults
- advocacy
- affirming
- aging
- assessment
- autism
- autistic parents
- black autistic
- body image
- building design
- burnout
- childhood
- children
- co production
- coercive control
- communication
- community
- culture
- depression
- Designing Homes for Sensory Differences Summit 2024
- diagnosis
- disability
- dyslexia
- eating disorders
- education
- empathy
- employment
- ethics
- friendship
- friendships
- GCC Summit 2023
- gender
- grooming
- guidance
- health
- healthcare
- holiday
- housing
- human rights
- identity
- illness
- inclusion
- inpatient
- interests
- intersectionality
- joy
- language
- late diagnosed
- learning disability
- LGBTQIA+
- lived experience
- masking
- medicalisation
- mental health
- monotropism
- mothers
- nervous system
- newly diagnosed
- NHS
- online
- pain
- parents
- peer support
- play
- psychiatric care
- PTSD
- race
- racism
- reasonable adjustments
- relationships
- research
- resources
- retirement
- routine
- school
- self diagnosis
- self regulation
- sensory environment
- sensory overwhelm
- sensory processing
- services
- sexism
- special interests
- spirituality
- stimming
- stress
- suicide
- support
- therapy
- training
- trauma
- trauma-informed
- women
- workplace
- young people
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