Why vaccination should be compulsory There is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism Which of the following is the most contagious? The common cold Measles Ebola HIV If you chose Measles you'd be right. Yet in the developed world there is no reason to fear Measles, there are vaccines that protect from it. …
Category: Autism
A talent for pushing myself beyond where I should push myself
Autistic burnout. I got this idea and blog title from Neurodivergent Rebel, and like her, I can only really say how burnout affects me. Burnout is defined as a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. With autistic people, it can be less prolonged than that. I always stress …
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Back at church: In the aftermath of the celebration
Going for God: Faith and Family Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield, Sunday 20th October 2019 I have not blogged about being at Church for the last couple of weeks, that's because neither I nor my wife attended one. We holidayed in Spain and were unable to find an English speaking service close to our resort of …
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Autism and Meltdown. 5 Pillars to be aware of
I have autism. My brain is wired differently to most people. I want to blog about my problems dealing with the world. (Please, other Autistic people, if any of this is myth, legend or just-plain-wrong please let me know. I have no psychological qualifications, I'm just an autistic person sharing his thoughts.) Sensory Occasionally this …
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Invalidation: 9 ways of belittling people
Judgmental ways of communicating Ordering you to feel differently Get over it Don't be so sensitive Ordering you to "look" differently Don't look so serious Don't look so proud of yourself Denying your perception, Defending You've got it all wrong But of course I respect you Trying to make you feel guilty while invalidating …
Why Tom Clements’ Guardian feature on autism draws criticisms from the autistic community – Spectra Blog
I thought this was worth reading. It's longer than my usual blogs, but then it needs to be. Over to Spectra Blog... The recent UK newspaper article ‘What is autism? How the term became too broad to have meaning any more’, by Tom Clements, has drawn criticisms leans towards Aspie supremacy, e.g. wanting to distance …
No longer measles free
The UK is no longer measles free. That was the news earlier this week. After we were declared measles free in 2016 by the World Health Organisation—no measles cases originated in the UK—measles has been on the rise since last year. It seems that children have been missing their second MMR jab (Measels, mumps and …
God was already there
In my last blog from two days ago, I reported on the sermon on Jonah chapter 2 preached last Sunday at Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield. I got me thinking. I became disabled over thirteen years ago, that's one-fifth of my lifetime. Initially, I was OK, but I started to struggle more and more with the …
Person-centred language
Person-first language and Political Correctness Much of my thinking on this comes from a blog from 2017. Language is a tool. We can use it to build people up or tear them down. Take the simple word quite. A British man shows an American friend a picture of his girlfriend. "She's quite pretty," says the …
The ABA controversy
This has nothing to do with a Swedish pop group of the 1970s, but with the controversial treatment of autism in children Applied Behaviour Analysis or ABA. I'm writing now because I almost had a meltdown in church after the service. Then later that week #TodayInABA started appearing in my Twitter feed. Such as this …
Making an ass of myself 