HeyJaredK.J. Elphinstone
Katy Elphinstone is active in the neurodivergent community as an autistic advocate, speaker and writer.
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What is it about these people? (opens the original)
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Researchers have spent a great deal of time trying to work out what kind of woman is especially likely to end up in abusive relationships. Which personality traits make women susceptible. This is familiar to me. Have you not also found yourself wondering what it is about women who've ended up in abusive relationships? Or wondering what it is about yourself, if it's you who has?Newsflash, however: in spite of persistent studying and expecting a conclusive result, researchers have been unable to f
Why do autistic people often catastrophise? (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking about this deeply. I’ve had this habit since I was a child. Lying in my bed at night thinking, “What if…?”I’ve just been reading a book about climate change. In it, the author talks about how people find it very difficult to grasp things that are outside their lifetimes; what they know.“It’ll never happen.” I haven’t got enough fingers to count on them, how many people have said that to me.So, back to why we might catastrophise.Clearl
Autistic children might be the canaries in the coalmine (opens the original)
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Many autistic adults shudder at school memories.Why do so many autistic people suffer at school?For too long, school was seen as beyond criticism, and the child blamed instead of the environment.That’s starting to change.For many autistic people, our difficulties begin at school 😨At home, if we’re lucky enough to be in a gentle, loving environment, we can be ourselves - play for hours, explore freely, eat in ways that suit us, & choose the spaces that feel safe.A quick detour into diagnosis:Many
'But, we're all neurodiverse" (opens the original)
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I've heard this phrase a lot recently, “But, we’re all neurodiverse!”It’s both depressing and enraging to me that so many of us use it, yet seem unable either to look the word up in a dictionary or to understand the implications of saying it.Of course we're all neurodiverse!Just as all living things are biodiverse.That doesn't mean that within that category there can't be further refinements. It would be a bit of a conversation stopper if every time you tried to talk about a species or a genus,
♾️Ten reasons why I like being autistic♾️ (opens the original)
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Maybe surprisingly to some, being autistic isn’t all bad.Here are some things that may get missed when autism is defined only through our difficulties and struggles.Reason no. 1:My way of processing information. 🔢Autistic different ways of processing information can lead to unusual perception: seeing patterns, details, connections, and possibilities that may not be obvious from the mainstream view.Reason no. 2:My unusual empathy. 💟Autistic empathy can be intense! It tends to also be pretty democ
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