Today, the Latitude Film Awards Silver Award arrived in the post for Autism: The Gift in the Curse. It feels quite surreal. When the award was announced online, I was obviously proud, but there is something very different about having the actual award sat in front of...

There is a pattern I keep seeing in autistic children that is being consistently misunderstood, mislabelled, and mishandled. Sunday arrives, and behaviour switches - not gradually, but visibly. The mood changes. Sleep becomes difficult or disappears completely. There...

If you’ve read my previous blog on The Hero Within Programme, you’ll already understand where this started - and why. This wasn’t built as another “support” model. It was built in response to what I’ve lived and what I continue to see: neurodivergent young people...

Thursday was a great success… It went exactly as planned, and that in itself says a lot about the people behind it. Lindsey (Colliers) had put lots of time into making it special. The level of detail, organisation, and care that went into bringing the gallery together...

Trigger Warning: This article discusses suicide and mental health. While this is Autism Awareness Month, I think it’s important that this is actually said, because it barely gets said at all! This doesn’t trend during Suicide Awareness campaigns, it doesn’t lead...

Autism is still widely misunderstood, and that’s exactly the problem. Is this where society is going wrong with autism? Is this why people still don’t understand it? Is this why when I say I’m autistic, people question it, doubt it, or look for proof - yet when I ask...

This is something I didn’t expect to be writing, but it’s important. I was diagnosed Autistic at the age of 41 in 2021. Like many people who are late diagnosed, I’ve spent decades in and out of the mental health system trying to understand myself, being misunderstood,...

I wanted to post this yesterday alongside the official look at the poster and announcement for Autism: The Gift in the Curse. But it was a ‘doing’ day, and I was at an art installation for a project I’ve been working on with younger neurodivergent students, and that...

I was contacted last year by the treasurer of Castleton railway station about creating new artwork to brighten the station, while keeping it in line with its history and heritage. I arranged to meet at the station where we went through the design and agreed the...

‘Signs of the Times’ is exactly what it says. It’s not decoration. It’s a reflection of what autistic people deal with every day, in plain sight, and still being ignored or misunderstood. This collaboration between myself and Born Anxious builds on a relationship that...