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Fifty Autism Facts for World Autism Acceptance Day

For this year’s World Autism Acceptance Day, I made these fifty pictures and shared them to Autistic Not Weird’s Facebook page...

Ever since adolescence, I’ve wanted to spend my life building people. Whether in terms of confidence, intellect, life skills, or...

We see them far too often. Videos of an autistic child (or adult) in extreme distress, shared across the internet...

There’s something falsely positive about the word “perfectionist”, isn’t there? The first time I remember hearing the word, I was...

It doesn’t seem quite right, does it? That a month designated for raising public knowledge of autism would be so...

This is going to be one of my shorter articles – largely, I imagine, to be posted in reply to...

On 29th November 2009, my life started to take the opening few steps towards beginning to make some kind of...

A few years ago, one of my articles received this comment. “F*** YOU F***YOU F***YOU. You don’t even know anything...

The most depressing period of my life was spent jobsearching, but I picked up a bunch of lessons from it. Here they are.

Content Warning: this article discusses the dangers of making children vulnerable to abuse and manipulation, but does not discuss specific...

So it’s World Autism Awareness Month again! Those who follow Autistic Not Weird’s Facebook page [links open in new tabs]...

Remember when we all changed our profile pictures to ribbons, and it cured cancer? No, me neither. The phrase “raising...