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ARCHIVED – ‘Don’t believe everything you think’: Accepting different realities
Posted on July 27, 2014 Leave a Comment
ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. The hardest part of watching my Nanna fall deeper and deeper into a Parkinson’s Dementia is not the hallucinations she has or the alternative reality she has […]
ARCHIVED – The problem with Psychiatrists
Posted on June 23, 2014 Leave a Comment
ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. I tread carefully around this subject in the knowledge that my own Psychiatrist now has my blog address. So for the purpose of maintaining his ego, which […]
ARCHIVED – ‘It’s just emotions’: Experiencing feelings as an Aspertypical
Posted on March 20, 2014 Leave a Comment
ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. I have learnt to accept that trying to think about your emotions and work out what you are feeling to an autistic person is like trying to […]
ARCHIVED – ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ on the Stage
Posted on September 30, 2013 Leave a Comment
ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology.In 2012 the award winning bestselling novel ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ transformed itself on stage, sweeping up an impressive 7 Olivier Awards in […]
ARCHIVED – Eating Disorders and Autism
Posted on September 18, 2013 Leave a Comment
ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. Five times more girls with anorexia scored into the autism range and well over half with ‘broader autism phenotype’, meaning they have some similar traits. This was […]
ARCHIVED – The Borderline of Asperger’s: The similarities and differences between Borderline Personality Disorder and Autism
Posted on June 12, 2013 Leave a Comment
ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. Emotionally charged meltdowns, intense relationships, superficial friendships, miscommunications and incorrectly assumed intentions. A lot of autistic people could identify with this list. An equal number of those […]
ARCHIVED – Autism Art Therapy: no artistic talent necessary
Posted on April 19, 2013 Leave a Comment
ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. “A picture can paint a thousand words and bla bla bla…”, have you ever actually tried drawing your words or your feelings (what the hell are those?), […]
ARCHIVED – The Many Guises of a Female With Autism
Posted on February 26, 2013 Leave a Comment
ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. I have had many personas in my life, fundamentally I have always been the same, but what I choose to show is often selective and carefully thought […]
ARCHIVED – The Misdiagnosis of Women on the Autism Spectrum: A Shared Story
Posted on February 7, 2013 Leave a Comment
ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. In a survey conducted by the National Autistic Society only 1/5 of autistic women were diagnosed by the time they were 11. Over half of boys […]
ARCHIVED – Why Aspergers is not a Scapegoat for the Connecticut Tragedy
Posted on December 18, 2012 Leave a Comment
ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. “A troubled 20-year-old loner with a history of autistic behaviour is the monster behind a horrific shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 people, […]
Dr Hannah Louise Belcher 