Latest articles: Being you
The latest articles for this subsite.
- Being autistic
- Experiencing being autistic, covering late diagnosis, gender identity, emotional challenges, unmasking and living life on our own terms.
- Uniquely human
- Uniquely human is about embracing the many ways to be human, living on our own terms, and celebrating the stories we each bring to the world.
- Social misfit
- We are not here to perform; we are here to be ourselves. If we all embraced our uniqueness, there would be no such thing as a misfit.
- The myth of an inner child
- We need to focus on integrating the fragmented parts of our personality that separated to protect us from trauma rather than trying to reparent an imagined inner child.
- Invisible identities
- Non-binary people often get treated just as badly as trans people, and sometimes worse, because of how society, culture and politics see gender.
- Introverts and free spirits
- We live in a world that is made for extroverts. Society tells us we must be social animals chasing life.
- Normal
- Normal is not a word that should be used to describe anyone. Normal is a one size fits all illusion that has been projected onto us so we can be managed for other people’s gain.
- Preparing for an autism assesment
- Preparing for an autism assessment can feel overwhelming, especially for adults seeking a diagnosis later in life.
- Autistic trauma
- Autistic trauma is real, often overlooked, and closely linked to a life of being excluded.
- Autism and identity
- We live in a world that was made for extroverted personalities, and for autistic people trying to fit into this world is exhausting.