Month: February 2019
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How to Work With/For An Autistic Person (from arts organisations to doctors and more)
I am writing this from a position of still-learning about others*, increasing self-knowledge and a growing recognition that the preconceptions (including, until recently, my own) many people have about autistic people are either sketchy or plain wrong. Here’s some stuff I wish people knew. At the same time, I could include about a thousand caveats.…
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A Conventionally Unconventional Marriage: Autism Week Blog Five
Since my teens I’ve only had three relationship modes: Very unhappily single and engaged in a pointless infatuation with an inappropriate person. Varyingly happily single (whilst wondering how on earth people actually manage to read or transmit signals sufficiently well to enter into relationships or hook ups) . Or in a monogamous relationship with a…
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But tell us about your worst autistic day…
There hasn’t been much suffering yet in your week of autism blogs Kate. I mean, people will say you’re suffering from autism, that you’ve got a disease (aarrgh, neither thing is true, though yes, both have been said to me), but you haven’t really conveyed that yet. Why not? Are you one of those celebratory…
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Autism Now is Like Radio Two 20 Years Ago
Quantum physicist Max Planck knew a thing or two about new scientific paradigms- some of his discoveries, based on observations, meant that classical theories about thermodynamics had to be reconstructed from the ground up. He said “New scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its…
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Autistic at a Wedding, the Doctors and a Gig
Autism is Not a Thing I realise not everyone knows that autism isn’t a thing. So I’ll just reiterate that. You can’t isolate it under a microscope and go “Aha! There’s some autism!”. It’s a way of being in the world and processing the world, which is why most autistic adults polled (by the National…
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The Undiagnosed Autistic People
I’m giving myself permission to blog about autism every day this week. There is SO much I could say and usually I don’t say it. There are other “messages” I’m supposed to transmit like- “Come see my show about Northern women” or “I’m really normal for a poet, honest” or “Do book me for that…
Kate Fox. Writer, Broadcaster and Performer: Where There's Muck, There's Bras. 