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Endings & beginnings - goodbye scorched earth (opens the original)
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If you’re as old as me, you’ll remember the heatwave in August 1976. It happened the month of my fourth birthday. I still remember my flowery dress and enormous sparkly silver plastic jewellery. I thought I had arrived.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal"
Really channel 4?! ADHD is not a myth for goodness sake (opens the original)
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Dear reader,I don't usually interrupt the usual rhythm of this newsletter, but I wanted to say something as the controversial TV programme about ADHD aired this evening on channel 4.If you saw the documentary or the discourse around it and it's left you feeling unsteady, you're not alone.Being told that ADHD is a social construct (implying it’s not real), suggesting that your struggle could be addressed by not eating sugar or getting rid of screentime (really?!?) or that your diagnosis is a tren
Not in the Doing but in the Being (opens the original)
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In these weeks of August you might be having time off from therapy, time off from the search of self. Time off from work demands. Or maybe not, perhaps you are still tied to the demands of life, swept along on tides of responsibility and the endless call of a future place where you will feel ‘fixed’ and ‘arrived’. This morning I read a poem that spoke to me personally about the tides of striving, reaching, searching, wanting.The Self Slaved (Patrick Kavanagh)Me I will throw away. Me sufficient f
Autistic Fairy Tales: Why Fairy Tales? (opens the original)
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It’s not the first thing one thinks of with regard to neurodivergence - fairy tales! But if you listen to the stories people tell about their lives, particularly around late identification and diagnosis, there is something so fairy tale-ish about it. I didn’t originally set out to shape my writing about autistic experience this way; the fairy tales sort of floated up on their own, from listening to my clients’ stories. (The full set of tales, gathered with an introduction and a reflection prompt
When your Apothecary of Collections grows sparse (opens the original)
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In my autistic life I have an apothecary of collections - birds, churches, dolls, phrases, words, tiny objects, books, therapy modalities, stories, pebbles, pictures, sketches. My newest collection That I’ve started is flowers – I made a plan in my head to learn the names of common flowers. I couldn’t manage to remember the less common ones, but surely if I pass the same flowers enough I could begin to actually remember the names of them. I was spurred on by the thought that these days children
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