Neurodiversity is a vital concept, and understanding the difference between neurodiverse and neurodivergent is much more important than just splitting hairs over linguistics. Here is a comic explainer.
Tag: Sonny Hallett
It felt good to read an autistic character who is so different from me, and yet very relatable in how she experiences and processes the world.
This book offers practical and specific advice on the oft-neglected topic of autism and surviving sexual violence, and also truly feels like it comes from the autistic community, centering autistic experiences and needs.
Autistic people often find it hard to identify and describe our emotions (alexithymia) partly because we have not been exposed to the right language to learn how to do it.
There are far too many examples of autistic people being arrested or sectioned, let alone reprimanded or ostracised, for having a meltdown—a reaction to difficulty and stress that is normal to our way of being, but not nearly well enough understood by others.