Autism, Identity and Me: A Practical Workbook to Empower Autistic Children and Young People Aged 10+

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I’ve broken it into chapters so it can be more easily digestible, so please do take breaks, take your time to process this and if there are any ways i can make this easier to consume, please let me know. On our little ball of blue and green we have conquered pretty much everything. There might be creatures with bigger teeth than us still wandering the seas and the plains that cause us problems, but ultimately we’re the kings of the hill, we’re the dominant species on the planet.

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If you think deficit, you think negatively; you focus on the things the person can’t do, you focus on how to fix what is supposedly broken. Humans are funny creatures. We’ve evolved so far yet are still driven by the basic instincts that drove us as apes. How can anyone tell us that we should not fight for our identity, when we are under a constant barrage of ignorance, indifference, abuse and neglect?Our responsibility as the organisation that ran Mendip House is to be as open as possible when things go wrong, to take action to fix this and to continue to listen to autistic people, families and other providers about what we need to do differently. We have tried to do all these things. The difference acceptance can make is show in Craig Goodall’s research “ ‘I felt closed in and like I couldn’t breathe’: A qualitative study exploring the mainstream educational experiences of autistic young people” and “ Inclusion is a feeling, not a place: a qualitative study exploring autistic young people’s conceptualisations of inclusion” and Rebecca Wood’s “ Autism, intense interests and support in school: from wasted efforts to shared understandings.“ The fact that Person First Language was created by because people felt that they needed reminded that the person in front of them is a person and not a condition, is horrifying.

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Autistic people are different and difference in this case = threatening = fear = hierarchy = discrimination = dominance. Well, as a model we have various levels of vaguely acceptable diversity in our human herd, so how is it there? Language derived from national charities that don’t help you, but convince you they’re helping somebody and then pass you onto volunteer run parent groups.

Parents groups which do their best with the limited knowledge they have, but reinforce the language, the ‘all-knowing’ information of experts, over and over and over. Rebecca’s book is innovative as it helps autistic young people own their autism diagnosis. Using non-medical jargon and empowering, yet factual, information, Rebecca has created a non-judgemental and non-infantilised place to not only support but explore what comes next." – Carly Jones MBE, British Autism Advocate This article is a deep dive into the importance of Identity and how the medical model of Autism and societal views towards Autism have a huge negative impact on Identity.

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Mendip House in Somerset was run by a male “gang” who threw cake at residents and forced them to fund staff meals out.This book has helped me get a grip on my autism and understand it more. It allows me to see the reasons, know why I’m doing all this stuff that neurotypicals wouldn’t do, and makes me feel better – good– that I wasn't alone in this." – Daniel, Young Person In another way you could look at it as schooling (not shoaling, there is a difference). Fish who pull together in the habitual, sub-conscious knowledge that if they come close and tight, then only a few of them might be snatched from the edges and the majority will be safe. This is the entirety of the human brain. So now do you see why we say we’re Autistic from our heads to our toes? Our whole neurology, all our cognitive processes, our senses, the way messages are deciphered and sent from every part of our body to the cerebellum, the control centre, are all shaped and formed by Autism.