Autism, Identity and Me: A Practical Workbook to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+

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An Autistic Invalidation – A study of the psychological and emotional impact of society and the medical model on Autistic people How can I and other Autistic Advocates call for Autistic people to embrace their identities when we have to explain over and over that nobody listens, that Autistic children are communicating yet they are ignored? That nobody believes Autistic children have the right to consent, or sees that the attitude towards consent and Autistic people continues into adulthood, as we are all perceived to have a learning disability so our voice does not count?

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Of course there are other aspects of us that make our identities, but to an Autistic person our very human existence is seen through the lens of Autism. The second thing that needs to happen is that we need to understand why we are in this situation in the first place, why is our difference wrong to the rest of the world, why do they think the way they do about us?Parents groups which do their best with the limited knowledge they have, but reinforce the language, the ‘all-knowing’ information of experts, over and over and over. This is basically a Professor of Inclusive Practice effectively encouraging Autistic people to Mask.

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It explains why an entire group of people – a huge group, can go their whole lives being invalidated and have their identities forcibly removed from them and nobody really cares. Or it appears to work, then six months later, or five years later or twenty years later, everyone is left scratching their heads, because the ‘Person with Autism’ who ‘overcame’ their Autism, who ‘recovered’, has started acting weird again…This content is restricted to only users who have bought the book. To get access to this content for this title answer the following question in the form below. When Autistic people are being electrocuted to change their behaviour, because Autistic behaviour is not suitable, all in the name of a behavioural therapy which is becoming more and more common in the UK.

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We give ourselves the illusion that we’re not doing this, we delude ourselves that we’re in control. We allow ourselves faux choices – Apple or Android, Mac or PC, we follow a different sports team, we buy a different car, we wear different clothes. When young people like Oliver McGowan are dying in hospitals because health staff don’t understand Autism. On a side note the DVLA were told to make that move by the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom.More uninformed power.) A life under constant assault When you have this reasoning that Autism is a ‘part’, the thinking starts that because it’s a ‘part’ it can be gotten around.

Person C doesn’t do things the same as the others = Person C has a behavioural deficit which must be fixed. DOI link for Autism, Identity and Me: A Practical Workbook to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+ This fracturing of self, this separation driven by this narrative, this is what causes us to be alone.

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I’ve been writing a fair amount of training material recently, for myself and for several other organisations and it’s had me questioning what I want people to take away from them. Knowledge about Autism obviously, but also the need for people to have that light-bulb moment, when I frame things in a way that tips them into a paradigm shift; so that metaphorically, as you slide the Neurodiversity paradigm in one ear, you see the pathology paradigm drop out the other side. When you look at the numbers of Autistic teenagers that self harm or try to kill themselves, 28 times more like than their peers. Autism, Identity and Me: A Professional and Parent Guide to Support a Positive Understanding of Autistic Identity 1st EditionAre either of those neurologies better than the other? Not at all. They just do the same things in a different way. If you think deficit, you think negatively; you focus on the things the person can’t do, you focus on how to fix what is supposedly broken. Even that isn’t a choice that most of us actively make – as the act of Masking often becomes subconscious and is enforced upon us. Forcing a paradigm shift The phrase in the image above is, I believe (and I’m happy to be corrected), a Nigerian proverb and it’s perfectly apt to the situation that we find ourselves in. A situation that explains the questions above. An Autistic Burnout – An investigation into the short and long term impact of Masking on physical and mental health