Community,
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Self-understanding

Have you heard of the Echo? The nymph in love with Narcissus only to be rejected? You might be more familiar with the part of the story where Narcissus falls in love with his own reflection, becoming the "poster boy" for narcissism? So, if you've had a narcissist in your life, you might relate to the story of Echo.

Psychology is the scientific study of human behaviour. It's, in a sense, philosophy with statistics. Except, there was nothing about the human condition in my five years of study!

When neuroconformists call autistic people for black/white thinkers, it's a very black/white understanding of the autistic processing.

Sharing with someone that you're autistic can be daunting (I wrote a blog post about 'disclosure' from the autistic person's perspective). Here's a guide to others on how to react to you sharing that you're autistic.

Should autism belong under the label disability? And what's the difference between the medial model of disability and the social model? Does it even matter?

The term 'psychological safety' became a buzz word during the Covid pandemic. I feel it's slowly disappeared again from our regular vocabulary so this will be my attempt to reminds us why this is still a key term.

In my contract there's a section saying that I work with people who are 'ready, willing and able' to do the work. But what does that even mean? And is that a fair demand from a therapist?

What a hot potato of a topic! In coaching there's a saying to "just coach the person in front of you" and in therapy there's a belief that it's not a therapist's job to have personal experience with every single topic that they can offer support for, like autism. Are these ideas valid?

Learn more about the 6-week, psychoeducational group programme/journey for newly-realised autistic adults.

I work in a neuro-affirmative, strength-based and compassionate way and I try to make people feel validated and empowered. However, with everything, striking a good balance is essential because very quickly the neuro-affirmative and stregnth-based approach can make us think we shouldn't struggle, we should find ways to overcome our obstacles and we should be more productive and use our strengths to do better at work and at home and suddenly an affirming and positive approach has become toxic and ableist. Working in a neuro-affirmative approach doesn't mean toxic positivity. Quite the opposite... Let me explain in this blog...

ABA stands for Applied Behavioural Analysis and is a horrible therapy applied to autistics to teach them, via punishments and rewards, how to behave like a neurotypical - essentially teaching autistic people how to mask to be accepted by society. But I'm wondering how often we, subcontiously, apply ABA indirectly towards ourselves...