Almost a year & almost £3000 raised. This ebooklet is still available. To get it donate to a charity supporting aid in Gaza & send proof of donation to [email protected]. @commonsenseslt.bsky.social @elainemcgreevy.bsky.social & many more. Minimum donation £8 pls. Thank you

So often we link wellness to adjectives of positivity. Yet, in a neo-liberal, competitive, capitalist society, ‘good’ on its own is actually rarely enough. We are constantly looking for ‘better’ and then ‘best’. a-labour-of-moles.blogspot.com/2025/06/expl...

Thanks so much. We have raised nearly £3000 so please keep donating. 💜

The face of 'emotional wellbeing' and the reality of 'being' well. If the perception and expression of emotions is fluid, what does that mean for wellbeing support? a-labour-of-moles.blogspot.com/2025/04/well...

Such a helpful model for thinking about energy, wellbeing & regulation. Will be incorporating this into our neuro-affirming practice CPD for schools 🤩 #EdPsychs #neuro-affirming

After years of trauma for my Autistic teen at physical schools, mainstream & specialist, & for us as a family, we have all benefited from education from home. Recently, he put into words why this was important & shared the idea of his ‘fuel bubble’. a-labour-of-moles.blogspot.com/2025/03/my-f...

a-labour-of-moles.blogspot.com/2025/03/defi... Every individual within a community matters to the 'being' of that community. A community that others and excludes one of its members, is not a community at all.

My son is so proud of the first 3d print of his latest blender project. 💕 as am I. What a cool ear phone stand.

Meantime, for those quite convinced that Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is nothing to do with Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), this, from PBS UK, who are promoting ABA and claiming that it's much better than it was. Mmm. Those following my page(s) get to see the reality of 'Brand New ABA'.

Thank you so much to Harriet Richardson, Tigger Pritchard, Julia Tuttle @yesthattoo.bsky.social @endeverstar.bsky.social @commonsenseslt.bsky.social @elainemcgreevy.bsky.social @jo3grace.bsky.social and all the other fabulous people who helped me.

With all things 'change' atm in the world, there are changes we can make, that support our fellow humans, showing we care & value humanity. This ebooklet, coedited with @kimmears.bsky.social, shares grassroots ideas on change, written with l🍉ve. Details below theautisticadvocate.com/ways-of-bein...

Multi-modal communication for all, always available "Different motor plans & lang. modes come to me in a way that isn't predictable. What helps me the most is always having access to all the ways I could possibly communicate, no matter how ‘advanced’". typertremblings.wordpress.com/2025/01/30/m...

1/9 "Never again..." Lest we forget A thread of reflection & remembering, drawing parallels that many of us see, but few in power are ready to voice publicly

In July last year a wonderful group of people came together to create an ebooklet on neurodiversity to raise money for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Since then we have raised over £2000. Now more than ever the people of Gaza need our help. To get a copy see below. @commonsenseslt.bsky.social

Always worth remembering how much harder it is to attain #WeirdPride and acceptance if you come from a position of less privilege. Partly, any deviation from the 'default human' (male, white, straight, abled, etc etc) is automatically seen as weird, among the groups with the most cultural power.

"To continue shielding Israel from accountability is to abandon the principles of justice & human rights. The UK must not be an ally to Israel’s atrocities, must act decisively to end its complicity, demonstrate genuine leadership in peace & justice for Palestinians" www.map.org.uk/news/archive...

1/3 Being busy or just being. Thoughts for wellbeing. Systems are always busy. Busy doing to, busy counting outcomes of what is done, busy counting those who are counting & doing. So much counting things that can be counted, but not everything that can be counted is necessarily good for wellbeing.

According to the conversations in Israeli media, one thing holding Israel back from a ceasefire was/is the concern that when western reporters and human rights groups are allowed in, the true scale of the crime will shock the global conscience in a way it hasn’t yet

1/3 Neuroaffirming ways of being - knowing your authentic self & being able to lean it to just that #monotropism “The idea of building life around a handful of things, and recognising that I do my best when I can get into long flowy attention tunnels." @jamieandlion.bsky.social 🤩 link below 3/3

We are a society swamped by misinformation. It tempts & reassures us. We see it, when we step away from its lure, into reality & see the world as it is. The social media posts of a #genocide, the destruction of climate & environment. This is the horror of 'real', not the fiction our politicians spin

There are simply two types of humans in the world. Those who believe in & represent humanity & those who don't. Underneath all the politics, rhetoric, spin it's that simple. History will judge.

New paper: autistic ppl found stimming to be positive when not self-injurious nor stigmatized (latter led to masking). Most felt stimming helped their friendships w/ & connections to other autistics, in part through inferring others’ emotions from their stimming. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

1/6 "Limbs, lives, loved ones missing." Had I referenced a location, an adjective linking to The Global North, I wonder how you would feel?

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya #Gaza #Palesrine #IsraeliWarCrimes euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6...

1/6 Smoke from fires, bombs & shattered buildings fills the screens that reach out to those who dare to look. Through the shared electronic connections, the screens held by human hands across the divide of nations, we see the truth.

"There’s no KPI for being with. No measure for being alongside. No time for being curious. No space for being human." Essential new year reading from @bryonyshannon.bsky.social rewritingsocialcare.blog/2025/01/04/d...

My name is Lisa Chapman & I’m an SLT. I’m calling for the immediate release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, abducted by Israeli forces. I’m calling for the protection of hospitals & medical workers in Gaza. End this genocide. change.org/p/release-dr... #FreeDrHussamAbuSafiyah #bskySPEECHIES

😱 Genocide On Demand continues to brings you On Demand Death. No expense spared, streamed live to any screen or device, 24/7. Feel you've missed out? catch up on repeat, with new episodes of all manner of horrifying death. Name your atrocity, & Israel will satisfy your need. 😱

"Taking a double‑empathy approach=meeting someone where they are, not where we expect them to be; recognising that mutual misunderstandings & misalignments of priorities & expectations may occur." (p.45) www.routledge.com/Improving-Me... Making the world kinder in 2025, interaction by interaction.

"Having your instincts about yourself repeatedly overwritten by the judgments and misinterpretations of others is likely to impact upon your sense of who you are, leading to self-doubt and difficulty trusting your own perceptions" joyofj.substack.com/p/on-truth-a...

x.com/DrMBotha/sta... and whilst appreciating that many will not wish to revisit The Old Place, this thread by Dr Monique Botha talks about power imbalances in autistic research. And, e.g. the structural violence of enforcing normalisation on unwilling minorities. Again, read, reflect.

annsautism.blogspot.com/2019/01/auti... and this blog serves as a list of some of the academic research which challenges the negative beliefs of some people about autism. Again, academic science and study, not woo or 'uneducated people in the pub'. Read widely. Think carefully.

It is similar with the diversity of humans. We're not one 'monoculture' of perfectly formed white Westernised fit, abled, work units, toiling away for the State and being Very Happy all of the time. Look what that belief-set has achieved... We're hugely varied, and that variety brings benefits/

1/6 Unfiltered: how do you like your information? From food stuffs to information, 'unfiltered' is a word we may process in a couple of ways. * Unfiltered: containing all the bits and pieces that we don't want * Unfiltered: unadulterated, whole/ wholesome

A beautiful neuro-affirming resource created by @commonsenseslt.bsky.social - promoting compassion, connection & curiosity 💓 Explore & share #EdPsychs - this is a gift 🙏🏼 autisticrealms.com/neurodiversi...

#EdPsychs We can, must, join together and get behind this collective action. Set a reminder. Small acts amplified. What's holding you back?

Set your reminders for tomorrow at 13.00 GMT to email your elected representative. My email is ready to go.

@autisticrealms.bsky.social @thinkingautism.bsky.social @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social @annmemmott.bsky.social @craeioe.bsky.social @fergus.oolong.co.uk @drruthmoyse.bsky.social @hollytheot.bsky.social @elainemcgreevy.bsky.social @kimmears.bsky.social @jo3grace.bsky.social @emergentdivergence.com

1/4 *UK Citizens* it's time we all acted cohesively. 📧 One Million Emails campaign: 13:00hrs - Monday. Let's take one small act and amplify it by a million. 🚀 www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

110,000 out of 135,000 tents used by displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are now out of service and have 'completely deteriorated,' according to the Government Media Office 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/ojrpnn

Our new book proposes a model for a neuro-diversity informed practice #autism #mentalhealth #new #publication www.routledge.com/Improving-Me...

News that's actually news youtu.be/Ef6gUIZFVZg?... Lessons to learn @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

www.linkedin.com/posts/doctor... an Emergency Livestream spotlighting urgent, unfiltered reports from colleagues in Gaza. This event brings together medical professionals, media voices, activists, and organizers to amplify Gaza’s cry for justice amidst the relentless genocide.

Hurrah! Another fabulous book by Dr Luke Beardon. "Reasonable adjustments for autistic children" (Sheldon Press, 2024). This is the front cover. Always wise and practical advice from my old Tutor at Uni. [No I don't get commission or other benefits from promoting any good materials]

1/6 Death is streamed live from Gaza via social media and the Global Minority countries keep on living, and ignoring and not caring. "This is not our business, this is politics, this is about religion." Discussion of perception is key.

Missing from @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social article www.google.com/amp/s/www.bb... No comment on Israel investigating their own war crimes, No comment about what @teamlabouruk.bsky.social & govt. are doing. Butchers butchering, Our politicians fully complicit, Our journalists too weak to do journalism