Over on http://www.auties.org we have many people on the autism spectrum worldwide who are seeking work. Some are looking for work experience, some are looking for jobs but aren’t ready for full time. Some are ready for full time work. Some (sometimes because they are unable to get or sustain work in the mainstream workforce) have started small businesses with the skills they have or the goods

they produce or a range of them, a ‘portfolio’. So I’m starting a monthly feature Read the rest of this entry »

In 2000, my husband Chris and I visited Japan and met with the stars of the international hit TV series: “Things You Taught Me” (“Kimi Ga Oshiete Kureta Koto”) and it’s director at TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting) , Tsunenari Yamasaki. Eight years on the series has shown in countries throughout Asia and I thought to ask when we might get to see it in English speaking countries. Here’s my interview with the director: Read the rest of this entry »

I got a letter from a lovely parent about her teenage daughter, a wonderful long distance runner. Yet the coach was stumped. Why wouldn’t she compete? Read the rest of this entry »

Each month I send out a challenge for people to send me a 1-2 word topic they’d like me to write a poem to Read the rest of this entry »

  When I was about 3, one of the names used for me was ‘spook’ because I often had this blank expression and ‘blind eyes’ which stared through things and I’d tend to aimlessly wander into rooms and hover on the peripheries. Read the rest of this entry »

Nut milks are high in calcium and many other nutrients. Unlike soy milk, they do not reduce gut IgA (reduces gut immunity) and unless you have nut allergies aren’t nearly so allergenic as soy milk. Read the rest of this entry »

A 37 year old man named Tas Blizzard died this week when his car lost control on a slippery road and went into a dam. It’s always so sad when one of the shiny, sparkly, good people of the world dies young, or tragically, and Tas was one of those people. Read the rest of this entry »

The social majority of humans, in fact around 60-65% of people, can think predominantly in pictures. They’re visual thinkers. Another 30% of people can think predominantly in words or mental chatter. They’re verbal thinkers. These mechanisms allow people to INTERNALLY mentalise. They can think INSIDE of their heads. Read the rest of this entry »

We passed her on the train platform, tall, mid 20s, sporting a stylish winter coat, hair well kept. She was probably reasonably well educated, reasonably financial. And she sucked on a cancer stick. I thought, another sucker for the billionaire multinationals and their rat experiments. Read the rest of this entry »

After doing a lecture called The Dietary Wheelchair about the role of dietary interventions in my own journey with autism, I was contacted by Cassie Wells from ORGRAN Natural Foods . She asked if I’d mind being interviewed for their magazine and I agreed and she generously accepted the additional publication of that interview here. Here it is: Read the rest of this entry »