Just back from our first #Autscape and if you are an autistic person hesitating over going, I’d say do it. It really is true that it’s an entirely unique environment. Everyone was so welcoming, the grounds are lovely and peaceful, there were many events for all different tastes. #autism

Fab but exhausting day at #Autscape - lots of interesting conversations with @autisticdoctor.bsky.social, @kellybirtwell.bsky.social, @jo-the-spinner.bsky.social and many others! 💜♾️

We had a fun and constructive day at #Autscape

Today, the 26th of July, marks exactly 20 years since the start of the very first #Autscape conference! Autscape 2005 “Creating Autistic Space” was held from the 26th to the 29th of July 2005 at the Ammerdown conference centre in Bath, England. Happy birthday to us! 🎊 www.autscape.org/2005/

Autscape Organisation (a UK-based nonprofit charity that hosts the annual Autscape conference, an autism-centred gathering run for and by autistic people since 2005) has left X (1.731 followers) Bluesky: @autscape.org

Nothing About Us Without Us: Autistic-Led Organisations, Charities & Social Media to Follow (Also a few that aren't Autistic-led but are doing amazing work & are wonderful allies in our community) autisticrealms.com/nothing-abou...

Good news: we are able to extend the registration deadline! The exact new deadline is not known yet; for now, registration remains open indefinitely past 31st May. We'll post more information here when we can announce it. Please visit www.autscape.org for the latest. We hope to see you at Autscape!

On Wednesday 6th August 2025 Laurentius Rex will be presenting his talk entitled “Lost in Space”. Autscape is an autistic-led residential event running from 4th to 7th August 2025 at The Hayes Conference Centre in Derbyshire. Registration is open until May 31st: www.autscape.org/2025/registr...

An #Autscape2025 highlight: On Tuesday 5th August 2025 Leneh Buckle will be presenting her talk entitled “Evolution of Autscape”. Registration is open until May 31st: www.autscape.org/2025/registr... List of presentations: www.autscape.org/2025/program...

An #Autscape2025 highlight: On Wednesday 6th August 2025 Zuzanna Makowska will be presenting her talk entitled “Inner Autistic Space – Making Room for Feeling”. Registration is open until May 31st: www.autscape.org/2025/registr... List of presentations: www.autscape.org/2025/program...

An #Autscape2025 highlight: On Tuesday 5th August 2025 Janine Booth will be presenting her talk entitled “Building Autistic Space in and through Trade Unions”. Registration is open until May 31st: www.autscape.org/2025/registr...

An #Autscape2025 highlight: On Tuesday 5th August 2025 Caroline Hearst will be running a workshop entitled “The relationship between double empathy and mentalising”. Registration is open until May 31st: www.autscape.org/2025/registr...

An #Autscape2025 highlight: On Tuesday 6th August 2025 Laura Buckland Mason will be running a workshop entitled “A Little Piece Of Autistic Space: An Art Workshop & (Optional) Postcard Swap”. Registration is open until May 31st: www.autscape.org/2025/registr...

An #Autscape2025 highlight: On Wednesday 6th August 2025 Angela Kingdon from the Autistic Culture Podcast will be running a workshop entitled “Building Autistic-First Spaces Through Podcasting”. Registration is open until May 31st: www.autscape.org/2025/registr...

An #Autscape2025 highlight: On Tuesday 5th August 2025 Kim Mears will be presenting her talk entitled “Multi-Modal Communication Spaces”. Registration is open until May 31st: www.autscape.org/2025/registr... List of presentations: www.autscape.org/2025/program...

The main programme schedule for #Autscape2025 is now available! www.autscape.org/2025/program... Registration is open until 31st May. Join us in autistic space where being autistic is the norm! En-suite room, all meals, and tea & coffee are included in the price. www.autscape.org/2025/registr...

Registration for the 20th anniversary in-person residential Autscape 2025 event is now open, until 31st May! The list of main programme presentations is now here: www.autscape.org/2025/program... Booking info at: www.autscape.org/2025/registr... [Image used by permission of everyone pictured]

Hurrah! Who is going to @autscape.org this year? Tickets now available! Theme: Evolving Autistic Space 4th – 7th August 2025 Where: The Hayes conference centre, Derbyshire, UK Website: www.autscape.org Booking for the residential event is open until 31st May. Day-only tickets available later.

Free @posautive.bsky.social workshop for neurodivergent people, co-hosted with @arghscotland.bsky.social on the Saturday, the 24th of May 24, 2:30pm - 4:30pm BST (GMT+1). lu.ma/lnkq3r5y

We are now accepting proposals for Autscape 2025: “Evolving Autistic Space”, held Mon 4th – Thu 7th Aug 2025 at The Hayes, Swanwick, Derbyshire, UK. www.autscape.org/2025/proposa... Submission deadline: Monday 31st March. #Autscape #Autscape2025 #ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergence

Now available on YouTube, a pair of #OnlineAutscape2025 “More Autistic Joy” presentations on a fascinating movement that surged in Japan in the last two decades: Tōjisha-kenkyū, a grassroots base for peer support, advocacy & emancipation. youtu.be/xpD_02AWuxE #ActuallyAutistic #autism #AutisticJoy

Now up on YouTube, an #OnlineAutscape2025 “More Autistic Joy” presentation: “Sensory joy to the rescue: emotional containers and portable safe spaces” by Alicja Nocon. Watch: youtu.be/1ArUdA_ZJio Worksheet: www.autscape.org/2025/program... #Autscape #AutisticJoy #ActuallyAutistic #sensory

Now online, one of the #OnlineAutscape2025 Lightning Talks: ‘Màiri Mhòr nan Òran: Gaelic poet, songwriter and activist’, by Max Marnau. youtu.be/9E6QxbJNRSI #Autscape #AutisticJoy #ActuallyAutistic #autistic #autism #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #poetry #scotland #gaelic #ScottishGaelic

Now on YouTube from #OnlineAutscape2025: On 7th Feb, autistic stand-up poet Kate Fox performed some of her pieces from the Dr Who-themed “Bigger on the Inside”, plus other poems that invoke autistic joy! Watch it at: youtu.be/c3_aYD89TUI #Autscape #AutisticJoy #ActuallyAutistic #standup

Now available on YouTube, an #OnlineAutscape2025 “More Autistic Joy” presentation: “The joy of autistic parenting: how to build healthy and safe attachment in an autistic family”, by Joanna Ławicka, Ph.D. Watch now at: youtu.be/0Ht86QJeiKE #AutisticJoy #ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversity #parenting

Now available on YouTube, an #OnlineAutscape2025 “More Autistic Joy” presentation: “Joyful Degrees: Autistic Adjustments at University” by @draxbey.bsky.social, presented 7th February. Watch it at: youtu.be/C35yQHSk3cw #Autscape #AutisticJoy #ActuallyAutistic #autistic #autism #university

New webinar now on our YouTube channel. An Introduction Tōjisha-Kenkyū with Prof Kumagaya & Dr Ayaya from the Uni of Tokyo. English dubbed & Original Japanese versions up… and a version of the translation only coming soon. youtube.com/@craeioe

#OnlineAutscape2025 ended on Sunday with a brilliant panel, featuring Lyric Schranz, Martijn Dekker, Joanna Ławicka, Alicja Nocon and Jorik Mol – with Kacey, our Chair, moderating the discussion. We thank all presenters, performers, participants and organisers for making it a wonderful event!

Going to Autscape (@autscape.org) in person can’t really be replicated, but online Autscape is lovely in its own right - this 1st evening, a range of engaging talks, Kate Fox performing wonderful poems to a TARDIS backdrop, Sparklies in the Dark. And all from my own sofa, accompanied by the cat.

A big shout-out and thank you to @autscape.org and all the presenters for delivering wonderful event of “More Autistic Joy” Feb 2025! Thank you! x

Registration for #OnlineAutscape2025 closes today at 16:00 GMT, so there's just over four hours left to register! Here's one last event highlight post. We've filled all twelve slots for five-minute Lightning Talks! Info: www.autscape.org/2025/program... #Autscape #AutisticJoy #ActuallyAutistic

yes i love music and have already signed up!!!!!!!! can't wait!!!!!!

#OnlineAutscape2025 starts *tomorrow*! Take your chance and register now! On the 7th at 19:30, Joanna Ławicka, Ph.D. will present “The joy of autistic parenting: how to build healthy and safe attachment in an autistic family”. Info: www.autscape.org/2025/program... #AutisticJoy #ActuallyAutistic

Only three days to go until #OnlineAutscape2025! Registration remains open! Music is an essential source of joy to many autistic people. At Online #Autscape, we will also be sharing our music! Info: www.autscape.org/2025/program... Please repost :) #AutisticJoy #ActuallyAutistic #neurodiversity

Online event this weekend More info here: www.autscape.org ( I am helping to moderate the online Discord server - hope to see you there - super line up!)

An #OnlineAutscape2025 “More Autistic Joy” highlight: On 9th Feb at 10:30 GMT/UTC, we will have a pair of presentations on a fascinating self-advocacy/research movement that emerged in Japan in the last two decades: Tōjisha-kenkyū. Info: www.autscape.org/2025/program... Please repost :)

At #OnlineAutscape2025 (7-9 Feb), we'll have #LightningTalks: participants hold five-minute talks on any topic of their interest. We are taking suggestions for Lightning Talks until 5 Feb, 5pm GMT. Approved speakers get a £10 discount. More at: www.autscape.org/2025/program... #ActuallyAutistic

An #OnlineAutscape2025 “More Autistic Joy” highlight: On 7 Feb at 20:00 GMT/UTC, Jorik Mol will present on being a lived experience mentor of autistic higher education students, highlighting many different kinds of autistic joy. Schedule & info: www.autscape.org/2025/program... Please repost :)

The #OnlineAutscape2025 programme schedule is nearly complete now. We even have photos! :) www.autscape.org/2025/program...

An #OnlineAutscape2025 “More Autistic Joy” highlight: On the 7th of Feb at 20:30 GMT/UTC, autistic stand-up poet @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social will perform the Dr Who-themed “Bigger on the Inside”, plus other poems which invoke autistic joy! Info: www.autscape.org/2025/program... Please repost :)

An #OnlineAutscape2025 “More Autistic Joy” highlight: On the 7th of February at 19:00 GMT/UTC, Harriet Axbey will be presenting “Joyful Degrees: #Autistic Adjustments at #University”. It's the first presentation of the event. Registration: www.autscape.org/2025/registr... Please repost :)

An #OnlineAutscape2025 “More Autistic Joy” highlight: On the 8th of February at 20:00 GMT/UTC, Emily Slater, Lyric Schranz and Tokyo Attard from Malta will be presenting “Empowering Autistic Youth – Introducing the ACTIVATE Project”. Registration: www.autscape.org/2025/registr... Please repost :)

Are you on other social media, too? Please follow #Autscape there and help us by signal-boosting #OnlineAutscape2025! * Mastodon/fediverse: c.im/@autscape Need an account? Invite link: c.im/invite/ACiP3... * LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/auts... * Facebook: www.facebook.com/autscape.org/

Announcing #OnlineAutscape2025 “More Autistic Joy”: Fri 7th – Sun 9th February 2025, Zoom + Discord Featuring a performance by the great autistic stand-up poet Kate Fox, a presentation on “The joy of autistic parenting”, and much more! Schedule and registration: www.autscape.org/2025/registr...

Autscape participant Jen “The Rainbow” Hart has made a great half-hour video relating her experience attending #Autscape in person for the first time! youtu.be/8MmxsJtAziU Note: this video was entirely unsolicited. Please do give Jen's channel a subscribe for us, though. :-) #ActuallyAutistic

#Autscape (the European “autistic conference” in the UK) has a brand new account on BlueSky. Please spread the word! #OnlineAutscape2025 “More Autistic Joy”: 7th-9th Feb 2025, Zoom + Discord In-person #Autscape2025 “Evolving Autistic Space”: 4th-7th Aug 2025 @ The Hayes, Derbyshire