Autism and Disability News
'I started a club to make autistic friends'
The day Emma Shores was diagnosed with autism has become such a defining moment in her adult life that she celebrates it like a "second birthday".
The first thing on her mind when she got the news was making friends with other people living with autism, people she felt might truly understand her for the first time in her life.
Former 'worst kid' embarks on employment mission
A neurodivergent man who says he was once dubbed "the worst kid" by his local education authority has been awarded funding to help other neurodiverse people find work.
Matthew Punter, 26, from Bath, was expelled from more than 10 schools because of his behaviour.
He is now doing a PhD at the University of Bath, and has been given £8,000 to set up EDEN - Employment Devices for Enhancing Neurodiversity.
Autistic FC break stigmas with mainstream game
A group of neurodiverse teenagers are breaking into the "neurotypical world" by playing their debut season in a mainstream league, the club chairman has said.
The Stimming Pool: Life from a neurodivergent perspective
Around 1 in 7 people in the UK is estimated to have some kind of neurodivergence, a term used to describe those who think about and see the world differently.
Yet they rarely get the chance to tell their own stories. So, a group of autistic artists is now trying to change all that, with an experimental new film called The Stimming Pool.
Click here to watch the video.
‘Nothing left except quivering protoplasm’: the man who pedalled a plane across the Channel
In 1979 a group of neurodivergent men embarked on an epic crossing, now immortalised on screen in The Flight of Bryan.
New PBS Series ‘Carl The Collector’ Wants To Show Neurodiversity Is Normalcy
PBS Kids this week is premiering Carl the Collector, a new children’s series about an anthropomorphic raccoon named Carl who is autistic. Carl lives in Fuzzytown and, true to his name, loves collecting things and has a particularly keen eye for detail. The animated series, which slots right into PBS Kids’ target audience of children ages 4–8, is the brainchild of bestselling author and illustrator Zachariah OHora.
Oleander Glenie on growing up trans and autistic
I have always felt like I exist in a slightly different reality to the people around me.
Things that make perfect sense to me become nonsense when they enter the world, and the information I receive from the world is a confusing, garbled jumble that keeps me awake at night.
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