Finding Common Ground

by Nanny Aut This is a challenging time for the autism/autistic community - when community is needed more than ever before - we are instead seeing division - not just autistics vs. autism parents but also across the lower support / higher support divide. I recently saw a facebook post by The Autism Dad asking … Continue reading Finding Common Ground →

I’m baaack – or at least trying to be – May 2025 posting challenge

For a long time it feels like I have been coccooning and staying one step back from the conversation. Anyone who has followed me for a while will know I had to shut my Inside Aut business website down and transfer to a holding site last year after the money ran out. Simple econonomics - … Continue reading I’m baaack – or at least trying to be – May 2025 posting challenge →

Processing Mutism: An Introduction to and Appreciation of AAC

Discussing AAC in its broadest terms and how it can support both non-speaking and speaking autistics.

School as a Polytropic Environment: The Impact on Monotropic Minds

How the polytropic school environment can impact on monotropic thinkers and result in processing mutism.

Processing Mutism vs Freeze Stress Response (Shutdown)

Explianing the link between Processing Mutism and Shutdown

My Autistic Experience of Processing Mutism

Exploring the personal experience of processing mutism - when an overload of processing blocks speech

The Intersectionality of Being Autistic and Physically Disabled

Exploring how being physically disabled affects identification and support of being autistic

‘Autism Training’ – the harsh reality of what professionals are being taught

Image description : A broken porcelain doll's head lying discarded on straw - a quote is at the top - "One way to look at the job of helping autistic kids is to see it as a matter of constructing a person. You have the raw materials, but you have to build a person.”― Lovaas" … Continue reading ‘Autism Training’ – the harsh reality of what professionals are being taught →

The Power of Community

Meeting with other autistics gives a sense of belonging we rarely are able to access in our day to day lives. This is an account of how Autscape changed my life for the better.

Autism and our Family : A review

A review of the BBC documentary - Autism and Our Family