Every person deserves to feel valued. Every single one. And yet, for so many autistic individuals, walking into a social setting can feel less like an opportunity and more like…
There were mornings — especially in the depths of winter — where getting dressed for school turned into an absolute war zone. It was winter in 2018 and it was…
If you’d told me ten years ago that I’d become someone who could walk into a school meeting, sit across from a panel of professionals, and confidently tell them what…
There’s something that happens to me when too many people are talking at once. It’s like my brain suddenly loses the ability to filter any of it. Every voice, every…
Matthew was three and a half and in nursery when I got my first real taste of what I can only describe as exclusion — the quiet, well-meaning kind that…
Right, let’s talk about something that took me a while to really get — and I mean really get, not just nod along to. Personal space. And why, for our autistic kids,…
I talk a lot about the hard stuff. Because it is hard. And I never want anyone reading this to feel like they’re the only one who’s struggling. But today I want…
I’ve worked in the film industry for ten years. Ten years of early call times, walkie-talkies, and the kind of organised chaos that somehow produces something beautiful at the end…
You know that thing where you’re lying in bed at night, and your brain decides now is the perfect time to replay every single conversation you had that day? Yeah. That. I…
The appointment ends. You walk back out into the world. And then it hits you. What do we do now? I remember that feeling so clearly. That weird mix of…