autistic wellbeing
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Creating Autistic Suffering: Failures In Identification
This installment of Creating Autistic Suffering explores the failurss of the doagnostic system and how we identify Autistic people through historical inquiry…
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Guide To Accessing Healthcare For Autistic People
An Autistic guide to accessing healthcare written by an Autistic person.
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An Ecosystemic Model of Distress, Power, and Mismatch
Distress does not originate inside a person like a faulty circuit or a chemical spill. It emerges when a person is required…
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Creating Autistic Suffering: In The Beginning There Was Trauma…
Learn about trauma and what traumatises Autistic people. Are Autistic people more easily traumatised, or are we exposed to greater levels of…
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New Meta-Analysis Supports Autism-Psychosis Overlap
A new meta-analyses has found a significant overlap between autism and psychosis. What does this research mean and what further work is…
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January At DGH Neurodivergent Consultancy
Everything you need to know about January at DGH Neurodivergent Consultancy.
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Understanding Autism: The Ecosystemic Model Of Distress
Building on Luke Beardon’s golden equation of ‘autism + environment = outcome’ this article proposes that distress and mental health problems are…
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Am I Experiencing Autistic Burnout?
Autistic burnout arises from the relentless demands of a non-accommodating world, leading individuals to exhaust their cognitive resources. The concept of energy…
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Five things that help me when I’m experiencing Autistic burnout
Autistic burnout can present itself in many different ways, not just the depressive state that observational models have taught us to expect.…
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Autism and pain: When pain management options are limited
I have recently been writing about the Autistic experience of pain and the risk that it presents to Autistic people when medical…