I’m going to start with a story, a silly story of imaginary characters, each of them, autistic Read the rest of this entry »

Thanks so much to those who sent in poem titles for the recent 24 hour poetry challenge. Here’s the poems. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m sure most of you have had one. Read the rest of this entry »

The level of unemployment among people on the autism spectrum is massive. Read the rest of this entry »

I sent out a challenge for those on my mailing list to send me a single word topic they’d like me to write a poem to and decided to write all the poems in the challenge within 24 hours… here’s the result. Read the rest of this entry »

High versus Low Functioning depends on the nature of the ‘autism fruit salad’ underpinning the diagnosis with autism.

These ‘autism fruit salads’ can be standard or exotic, simple or complex, small or large quantities or pieces, separated contents or very mixed up. Read the rest of this entry »

In 1996 my first text book, Autism; An Inside Out Approach was published, in which I discussed strategies for meaning deafness, meaning blindness, lack of body connectedness and lacking simultaneous processing of a sense of self and other. To most people, that may sound like something from a Sci Fi novel, but in my world it’s just part of everyday life.

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I recently heard from a blind woman on the autism spectrum who was looking forward to meeting me. I found her perspective on her ASD interesting so thought to share how our dialogue went. Here it is….

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My definition of autism has evolved through my experience as an autism consultant with hundreds of children since 1997 together with my own experience as a person assessed as a psychotic infant in 1965 at age 2 and later diagnosed with autism.

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I was born into a very challenged and challenging household of unusual, eccentric, personalities.

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