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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ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology.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 – 4 Not So Typical Neurotypical Brothers – Does autism run in families?
Posted on March 27, 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ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology.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 2011 The National institute of Mental Health reported a 19% chance of parents with autistic children having subsequent autistic children. Upon reading this statistic I am […]
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ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology.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ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology.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 “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ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology.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 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ARCHIVED: Please note, whilst every effort has been made to update blog posts, this blog post has been archived and may present outdated and incorrect information and terminology.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 Autism Diagnosis II – The Psychology of it all
Posted on July 17, 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 had been looking forward to my Autism Assessment. Mainly because I was being offered three hours to fill in questionnaires, one of my favourite activities; ticking […]
Dr Hannah Louise Belcher 