Autism Acceptance and Awareness Month Today is Wednesday 2nd April 2025, Autism Awareness Day. It is also the start of Autism Acceptance Month which runs until the end of April. Photo by Alexander Grey on Pexels.com Awareness or acceptance? This month is all about autism acceptance, a vibrant movement that champions understanding and support for …
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Some autistic people talk about autism as their superpower. This does not mean that I have x-ray vision, super speed, nor can I jump large buildings with a single fart. But there is some truth here. Autism diagnosis is negative. It is about looking for things we need help with, which is how it should …
An image in two parts. On the left are three plain clothed police detectives, two male and one female, on some stone stairs. On the right is Ella Maisy Purvis as Patience.
Autism First Mondays The first of the Autism First Monday blog posts, and it isn't on the first Monday. It looks like a broken resolution, but January 6 was the first Monday this month and Epiphany is not a movable feast. Autism First Mondays will be on first Mondays unless some other event comes then …
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Happy New Year! Looking back & looking forward. Historic England proudly announced the addition of two new Grade 2 listed buildings in Huddersfield in late 2024. That's two of just 17 awarded this last year. This is a wonderful achievement, and we have much to celebrate! The first is the place where I was born. …
Happy New Year Four years ago, I made a hopeful declaration that 2020 would be a year dedicated to worship. Little did I know that our world would face unprecedented challenges. Within just three months, churches were forced to close their doors worldwide, as a necessary measure to curb the spread of a new disease …
There is a difference between neurodiversity and neurodivergent: Neurodiverse is about a group of people, we are all different from each other. A single person is not neurodiverse, though neurodivergent people do refer to themselves as neurodiverse. Neurodivegent refers to people who have a brain that works significantly differentle to the norm, conditions such as …
There are three things I dreaded hearing as I grew up. Do Not Fidget Stop Daydreaming You are being Antisocial I'd like to break that down a bit. Yes, I'm a fidgeter. my fingers are never still, my feet move to rhythms, and sometimes polyrhythms that only exist in my head. I have long periods …
The prayers of Paul This is a series on the prayers of St Paul found in the letters attributed to him in the order he is believed to have written them. Letters to the same place or person will be treated together with the first letter to that destination. 4 I thank my God always when …
Eleven different ways of experiencing Christianity—Part 12 There are many ways of seeing yourself as a Christian. You can add another way as your faith grows; you can have more than one at a time and move through them over time. I am going to look at this through Advent this year. None of them …
Making an ass of myself 