Kifl doing an *extra* cute thing with her paws.

Kifl receives the attention she is due. Photo by (and with) @scrappapertiger.bsky.social.

Santa - or Captain Christmas, as he was also known - is traditionally an elf. Not a big Tolkienish elf either, a rotund little guy with eight tiny reindeer. Merry Yule to all who celebrate! www.fatherly.com/entertainmen...

"She's like a bunch of flowers!"

A tremendous educational video to share with anyone who affects to be confused about pronouns. youtube.com/watch?v=koZF...

"The double empathy problem decentres the idea of normalcy" A nice summary from Damian Milton in their talk today: "Key Concepts in the Development of a Neurodiversity-Affirming Practice" from Tizard Centre University of Kent.

Sharing a fantastic blog "Be yourself. No, not like that." Written by @scrappapertiger.bsky.social who is part of our animations team at Thriving Autistic. Sonny also works as a Neurodivergent & Queer therapist & is in our Neurodivergent Practitioners Directory. Blog: medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

This is a really interesting and thought provoking piece. There is too much in it for me to pick a standout section without being reductive, so I will simply suggest you take some time for yourself and enjoy reading it, as I did. Thank you for sharing this, @scrappapertiger.bsky.social

Here’s a text version of my keynote at the PCE Europe Symposium last month. medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

It's here! It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School Edited By Rachael Davis, @claruineill.bsky.social @suereviews.bsky.social Excited to finally share the chapter I wrote with @fergus.oolong.co.uk alongside fab illustrations from @scrappapertiger.bsky.social

Finally home from Glasgow after four long days of conferencing at the PCE Europe Symposium. So tired no more words. It’s been a lot. I did these doodles while listening to talks:

A sunny day to be travelling through to Glasgow! Feeling nervously excited for my keynote at the PCE Europe symposium this afternoon. My talk is titled: Be yourself. No, not like that - Normativity in therapy training and its impact on all of us. More info: www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/p...

A morning blep to all who celebrate

I have a chapter in a book! I feel really excited and honoured to be alongside a whole bunch of great chapters and authors writing on the Person Centred Approach. Ebook also available. You can get a 20% discount until the end of December using code 25ESA3 www.routledge.com/Applying-the...

Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic is an animation about those things that people tend to think are just individual quirks, until they realise they're common Autistic experiences. It's so important to feel seen! Many of these are very commonly misunderstood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O6h...

Two of our founders worked on a pair of affirming animations for @thrivingautistic.bsky.social, introducing key ideas. The first is Discovering You're Autistic, basically giving people the messages we most needed to hear when we were first realising we're Autistic... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDv...

Wow. So. Wayward. ...huh. Damn.

Excited to finally be able to share these animations I’ve been working on with @fergus.oolong.co.uk , @iara-abigalil.bsky.social , @autisticrealms.bsky.social and other team members not on here. Particularly pleased to get my favourite image that I use of “thinking in constellations” in there ✨

First up is Discovering You're Autistic, about the experience of realising you're autistic, and the things we've found most valuable for anyone starting out on that journay. Realising that there are many other people out there with similar experiences is so powerful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDv...

Hurrah! We can finally share the animations I have been working on with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social First short film is: Discovering You're Autistic Please do let us know what you think and share if you find valuable! youtu.be/-eDv2omDMko?...

A break for freedom.

Created by animator Iara Abigalil, @autisticrealms.bsky.social , @fergus.oolong.co.uk , @scrappapertiger.bsky.social , @jessicakdoyle.bsky.social , Laura Buckland Mason and music by @somebodysomeone.bsky.social Join us for our launch: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discovery-...

If anyone has a clue WHY Dagny Holm (who would later design the models for the original Legoland) caricatured Thorvald Stauning (the first Digital Democratic Prime Minister of Denmark) as a bird, I'd love to hear about it! I made a sculpture for @scrappapertiger.bsky.social's birthday based on it…

On a trip to Denmark, saw this wasp outside the train window as the train picked up speed. It held on for an impressively long time before being flung off. Those little antenna 🥺 I hope it’s ok

Visited the Lego House recently and can’t stop thinking about this early Lego product

How I love this dog

BBC news currently has no article on this. According to organisers, it broke their own records by far and was the biggest trans rights events in the world. Otoh the BBC does have coverage of far right anti-refugee protests which were much, much, smaller. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I hope Kifl is okay

Update: version with image descriptions thanks to @thinkingautism.bsky.social thinkingautismguide.com/2024/07/neur...

Time to re-share this piece I made a year ago today about neurodiversity and neurodivergence, and why the important distinctions between them is not about grammar/linguistics.

Came home exhausted, flopped on sofa, but:

...and the importance of understanding that neurodiversity is about everyone: medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

...and getting comfortable in your body, in a society that militates against that: medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

Going to share some of @scrappapertiger.bsky.social's relevant thoughts here about normativity, gender, neurodiversity and all that: medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

There's an analogy here with gender normativity. Expecting people to conform with gender norms is pretty much universally bad. Maybe for some, the convenience of putting people in boxes, in a hierarchy, outweighs the cost; it certainly doesn't for most people. For some, it's relentlessly harmful.

This is right. Society is neurodiverse: people vary a lot in how we experience and process the world, and having things set up as if there was just one 'normal' type of brain is harmful in general, because there just isn't.

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Just look at her though (We really ought to post some photos of her that are not on this sofa from time to time…)

Hrn?

Kifl got a summer haircut.

😊 (Also currently have some space for supervisees)

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Here is the latest from the Kifl.

Kifl has been nominated for the title of Most Boopable Snoot, please let us know if you think she has any serious competition

How society sets autistic people up to fail: “If you tell people "You can't do this", from a very young age, and if then they have no opportunities to prove that message wrong, then people aren't going to try.” Per @scrappapertiger.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/neuroque... #neurodiversity

Delighted to share the transcript from this conversation I had with fellow autistic therapist Aimee Cliff, as part of their very exciting book project on autism and empathy. Looking forward to both the book and more instalments in this series. neuroqueeringtherapy.substack.com/p/empathy-is...

Pride in our Community. We did things a little different this year. Pride is for community building and connection, a place to be heard and seen, for anger and joy. Pride is for liberation, autonomy, expression, togetherness. Our struggles are shared struggles. We persist onwards – Together!

Yeah, it's really very unhelpful when people use 'neurodiverse' when they mean 'neurodivergent'. I think @scrappapertiger.bsky.social's comic on this is the clearest explanation I've seen of the problem (but I may not be impartial...) medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

Lovely little crowd here at Pride in our Community! Really appreciating all the speakers, too. One more to go before me, I think...

Kifl listening to speakers at @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social Pride in Our Community