Latest articles: Autism
The latest articles for this subsite.
- Autism assessment
- This article is an how I prepared for my autism assessment. It may help someone who is wanting to go down that path and wants to do all they can to get the right diagnosis.
- Partners with autism
- This article is about romantic relationships between two autistic people, but it can and does apply to other relationships such as family and friendships with people who are also autistic.
- Us and them
- We are all citizens of the world sharing this planet thus the world was made for everybody, but selfishness and greed has changed that.
- Conscious solitude
- Conscious solitude nurtures our true essence, and is the only real way of hearing what our hearts are trying to tell us.
- Understanding ourselves
- I'm different than autistic people I've spoken to and I have come to understand why.
- Does masking really keep us safe
- It is an illusion for the most part that hiding our autistic traits keeps us safe. I was ridiculed for decades for being autistic. It turns out that was not doing me any favours.
- Autism and being you
- Autistic people hide who they are because their traits are not tolerated by society. It is not our job to hide who we are to make others more comfortable.
- Autism, gender identity and sexuality
- It is not unusual when discovering we are autistic that we also understand more about our gender identity and sexuality. It just seems to open the door to put some other things into perspective.
- Struggles
- All autistic people are struggling to some degree no matter their diagnosis and should be met where they are and have their support needs taken seriously.
- Late autistic diagnosis
- We mask because of society’s unacceptance of our differences so it’s a vicious circle but I can’t help wondering how much we may have contributed to these labels by our own behaviour.