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ARCHIVED Schooling for Autism Part III: University and Beyond!
Posted on September 14, 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ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. The five most important things I learnt at university, in no particular order, were: that ‘then’ and ‘than’ are actually two separate words and should be used […]
ARCHIVED Schooling for Autism Part II – The College Years
Posted on September 10, 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ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. It soon became apparent that for every year of study I’d inevitably have a breakdown and require eight months off. A bit like a Tesco Value battery, […]
ARCHIVED Schooling for Autism – How to survive it
Posted on September 6, 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ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. I blog this piece in hindsight, as all through my schooling I wasn’t actually aware I was autistic, just that I couldn’t cope and was a little […]
ARCHIVED “Stimming, and I hope you like stimming too”: Declare your Stims!
Posted on August 30, 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ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. Stimming, or self-stimulatory behaviour as it is more formally known, is as common in the world of autism as wedding dresses installed with fairy lights are on […]
ARCHIVED How to Drive with Autism
Posted on August 21, 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ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. Today I took my first (of many to come) practical driving tests. I should have known it wasn’t going to go so well when the examiner asked […]
ARCHIVED Autism Vs The Media: The war is on!
Posted on August 13, 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ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology. There was a time when I would have been drawn to any news article with the word Autism thrown into it, nowadays I avoid such articles like […]
ARCHIVED The ‘Creatively Impaired’ Autism Fallacy – How a picture can paint a thousand words for us too!
Posted on August 9, 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. My childhood artwork was never displayed proudly around the house (queue my mum feeling guilty when she reads this). I never thought anything of it until I […]
ARCHIVED Plug in Baby – Early vs Late Autism Diagnosis
Posted on August 2, 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. Yesterday I was drawn to an article in the paper entitled “Plug in Baby”, mainly because of the cute baby wearing a peculiar hat sprawled across the […]
ARCHIVED The Spectrum: A little high, a little low
Posted on July 24, 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. As a psychology student studying Autism, the idea of an Autism Spectrum appealed to me. I liked how it could reduce a plethora of ‘impaired’ individuals onto […]
Dr Hannah Louise Belcher 