Tag: Autistic

Working as a behavior technician with autistic children has been a really special part of my life. I have only one client at the moment but have worked with many over the past year and a half. In my time working with kids with autism I’ve learned a lot about life. Whether they are autistic ...

When I was at university, writing essays was a special kind of struggle. I would eventually manage to complete them, and sometimes did quite well. But I always suspected that I laboured over them more than was necessary, or at least more than others did. I thought it was just my anxiety compellin...

When I was a child, life was okay. It began to go downhill at the age of seven, when I had a prophetic vision. The vision centered on a new girl at the school. We’ll call her Emma. She moved to our school from another country and within a few days was crazy popular. I’d been going ...

We all have things about us that we would rather keep to ourselves. Whether it is guilty pleasures like cheesy music and films, or mistakes we have made that we would rather not think about, very few people are comfortable putting their whole lives out in the open. However, we also tend to have c...

Next week we are having some work done on our kitchen. It is very much needed and will bring huge benefits. But it means that I am currently having to relocate the entire contents of the kitchen cupboards to elsewhere in the house. It is chaos, and I am finding it exhausting. I know that building...

Meet my awesome 14-year-old son, Niko. He’s not just someone with autism — he’s super smart, mega-talented, and totally into cooking. In fact, he dreams of becoming a chef. But, you know, life’s not always easy. There are hurdles, especially because people sometimes treat aut...

Here was this entire underworld of debauchery set to heavy bass, the kind that gets up in your rib cage and rattles all your insides. The songs all flowed into each other, pulling along a room roiling with bodies, all beholden to the beat. The DJ conducted an entire crowd full of strangers in the da...

I wasn’t diagnosed as autistic until age 41 in 2021. What I thought was autism was the stereotype you see in the media of the non-speaking rocking and hand-flapping white boy, or the incorrect stereotypes such as Rainman (actually a savant), and the stereotypes I didn’t relate to such as...

This is not an original idea by any stretch of the imagination. There are several lists just like this one floating around online and having read quite a few of them over the last two and a half years, I felt inspired to create one of my own. While my late diagnosis at the age of 29 in April 2016...