Airport travel can be a sensory hell and a routine-shattering nightmare. No matter how excited I am about the trip I'm taking, this part always fills me with dread. I'm gradually building up my strategies, including a communication card, which I'll talk about in another article. One of those strategies has been to start booking Special Assistance when I book my tickets. With... let's say "mixed" results so far. Before I tried this, I didn't know what to expect. So, I wanted t

I’ve had suggestions of autism follow me since I was little. Back then, I found the word scary and a suggestion that I was stupid and incapable – so I ran away from it at any chance. There are about three major occasions where I was attempted to be diagnosed through my childhood, all of which I failed the criteria with flying colours.  Kudos to my acting talents and drive to be accepted.

Spoiler alert: they are all me. I have been an adult woman for approximately ten years. A manager of some description for approximately...

Becca spoke with me about her autism diagnosis journey, and advice she would give to newly diagnosed autistic folk. We talked in a...

"You didn’t have obsessions, you just really liked maths…” This is something my parents said to me when I first talked to them about...

Being afraid to meet mask-less me I am an autistic woman. Like many autistic women, I have spent my life masking to fit into a...