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Understanding how your hormones affect you each month can be empowering.

It is often assumed that as human beings we can judge what other people are thinking and feeling, simply by looking at their facial expression. However, reality is often much more complex than this.

A Parent’s Handbook to Supporting Newly Diagnosed Teens and Pre-Teens

A passionate interest can take up a lot of time and space, but it is important that we give autistic people the space to be authentic

Meltdowns are NOT temper tantrums, even though they can involve screaming, kicking, stamping feet etc.

The first step to being a good ally is to be educated, and that can take a long time.

There are a lot of myths out there about autism, many of which stem from research done when autism was first recognised.

Older generations were very clear about what autism ‘looked like’ and many of these views have now been discredited.

Firstly, there is nothing to be ashamed of in being autistic. It’s not a disease, or something that can be ‘treated’ or ‘cured’.