How Not To Do Being Autistic — Elon Musk — until recently, the richest man in the world — is probably autistic. We know this because he once mentioned he ‘has Asperger’s’ as part of a comedy routine. …

Also available as video or audio. Are colours real? Are they things that objectively exist in the universe? Or do they exist only in the mind of the beholder? The answer to all of these questions is, I think, not really. Colours are a human response to complex — but…

Why science is not always the best way to learn about autism — There are many ways for people to come to understand the world. Many different approaches to learning about things, including minds. Scientism — the belief that science is the only route to useful knowledge — is a philosophical mistake. I say this as someone who loves science, who teaches it…

I’ll try to keep this brief; if anyone wants the long version, I would point them to this highly intelligent and well-informed panel discussion and the very detailed statement put out by Boycott Spectrum 10k. Eugenics While it is now well-understood that autism is genetically complex, this does not altogether…

Dr. Dinah Murray (1946–2021) — If you knew my mum, I don’t have to tell you that she was kind, passionate and sometimes fierce: she was appalled by injustice and unfairness, and she was outspoken in challenging it. …

Originally a talk to the Waldorf Handwork Educators Teacher Conference on the 15th of July, 2021. Watch a video here. Hopefully this is of some interest to anyone interested in autism and learning, not just teachers of fibre-craft… I want to talk today about different experiences of education, of making…

If anything is a disability, autism is. But is anything a disability? The social model of disability sees disability as arising from the interaction between a person and their environment. …

The 4th of March is Weird Pride Day. This is a day for people to embrace their weirdness, and reject the stigma associated with being weird. To publicly express pride in the things that make us weird, and to celebrate the diversity of humankind. Many people need desperately to receive…

An autistic science teacher considers what genuinely inclusive education might look like. This was originally a talk at Autscape in 2020, the conference for and by autistic people. The video of this talk is now online. Many of us — autistic people, and those who are neurodivergent or just ‘weird’…