Part 1 of exploring being monotropic and its implications for mental health.
Tag: neurodiversity
June 20, 2025
As you will have noticed the plan to post regularly in May was an epic fail. There were a number of reasons for this. Reasons - not excuses. Unrealistic demand - I am not a consistent person - I don't have a neurology that supports consistency, nor do I have mental health that supports consistency … Continue reading June 20, 2025
Parenthood – And the Perils of ABA
Image by Effendi from Pixabay by Nanny Aut I am going to start this post with saying that I don’t believe in the narrative of ‘ABA is abuse’. It’s a catchy slogan that entirely fails to connect with the people who need to be informed about ABA the most. ABA IS harmful - that isn’t … Continue reading Parenthood – And the Perils of ABA
Why Holistic Understanding Is Important
Image by Džoko Stach from Pixabay By Nanny Aut I am - at core - an engineer. This means I like to take things apart, examine the components and figure out how everything works. And the key lesson I’ve learnt is that machine components interact with each other. If you have a failing component - … Continue reading Why Holistic Understanding Is Important
Of Course, This Is a Good Course (or is it?)
by Nanny Aut I often see an advert for an autism course I took. I took it out of curiosity to see whether the improved quality of research and the very active dialogue in the autistic community about what we need has filtered into mainstream. It hasn’t. It was really tough to take this course … Continue reading Of Course, This Is a Good Course (or is it?)
May 3, 2025 – Talking about Autism Research
RFK is in the headlines at the moment proudly displaying his deep ignorance about autism and promoting his cockamamie ideas for autism research based on his intense lack of knowledge on the topic. But he is not the first to get things so badly wrong - historically there is a lot of poor quality research … Continue reading May 3, 2025 – Talking about Autism Research
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.
The Intersectionality of Being Autistic and Physically Disabled
Exploring how being physically disabled affects identification and support of being autistic
Autistic Village 