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Autism and romantic relationships – an insight from Holly Sprake-Hill

We had a great session talking about autistic romantic relationships yesterday with the brilliant Holly Sprake-Hill.You can catch up with the talk here If video does not display you can watch and read here: https://ndsa.uk/forum/threads/autism-and-relationships-insight-from-holly-sprake-hill.1128/ IntroductionRelationships are an integral part of human experience. For autistic people, forming and navigating relationships—whether romantic, familial, or social—can be …

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NDSA supporting LGBTQ+ Pride
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Neurodivergence and LGBTQIA+

A comprehensive study involving more than 600,000 individuals revealed that people who do not identify with the sex they were assigned at birth are three to six times more likely to be autistic than cisgender people. Gender-diverse individuals are also more likely to exhibit traits of autism and suspect they have undiagnosed autism. Researchers define …

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NDSA Project Manager job description

Neurodiverse Self Advocacy Partnership CIC is a non-profit social enterprise dedicating to helping autistic people to realise their potential and achieve their goals. We are running a self-help information site and forum and innovative mentoring into employment programme that we call Tool Up and a post-diagnostic mentoring programme Pathway. We won Innovate UK Women in …

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Why Autism eugenics is everybody’s business

“Spectrum 10K”, an autism study billed as the largest of its kind in the UK, has been launched. The very community at the heart of it are petitioning for it to be halted, but the wider implications should be a concern to society as a whole. Under the new study gene samples from 10,000 autistic people are being collected, and combined with samples already gathered from 90,000 autistics around the world, including questionnaires, medical and educational records. The autistic community fears that the study opens the door to “eugenics” without proper accountability and safeguards
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Elastigirl: The Autistic Zebra

I have lived with the symptoms of EDS my entire life, with joint pain and symptoms of POTS appearing when I was a toddler, although being so small I was unable to adequately express what I was experiencing. Having lived with a certain degree of chronic pain and fatigue my entire life, and being unable to remember a time when I did not live in agony, I assumed it was a completely normal part of the human experience and I was simply lazy and weak for being unable to push through like everyone else did.