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

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If group membership provides individuals with a sense of meaning, purpose, and belonging, it can have positive psychological consequences (Haslam et al. When this is just a minuscule handful of examples of the abuse, oppression and subjugation handed out to Autistic adults and children every single day. Doing this reinforces the need to address people as accepted Autistic individuals, with different needs and different co-occurring conditions, where under the current spectrum/levelled pathological model, people are excluded from supports based on the external opinion of whether they are high or low functioning.

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And so within this, I wanna give a trigger warning before I state the following statistic around suicide. And here today, in these few minutes, I wanna try to unpack what self-acceptance can look like as a journey for Autistic individuals in a society that doesn’t really accept us. Erikson ( 1968) introduced the idea that a relationship exists between identity development and mental health, which is still considered useful in understanding mental health today (Côté 2018). Mental health scores did not differ between acculturation groups, however those aligned to non-autistic culture tended to generate more positive self-statements than those aligned to neither culture. Given this prevalence amongst autistic adolescents, it is important to examine factors that might contribute to the development of these difficulties.

It goes from being what appears to be a minor article, in a what looks like a small university publication, to having an enormous readership base and backed up and reinforced by prestigious places of learning and organisations. Among diagnosed children though, a really common thing to hear from parents is that: “I don’t want my child defined by their Autism.

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Put through a dazzling array of unsuitable environments and subjected to an even more dazzling selection of strategies and treatments to keep them there. It means, well, I don’t actually love the word itself, it’s meaning and when it’s applied to me, but it’s a very powerful word. Well neurology is the science that looks at how the brain works and cognition is how that brain processes, disseminates and acts upon the information it receives, so when we talk about Autistic Neurology and Autistic cognition, we’re talking about the process of how the brain actually works.This informative and engaging guidebook provides key adults – parents, school staff and therapists – with the tools needed to support children and young people as they develop a positive understanding of their autistic identity. How can someone who claims to want to understand the importance of the Autistic self come from a position of denying the Autistic self? Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition, characterised by difficulties with social communication and interaction, as well as repetitive patterns of behaviour, focused activities or interests and sensory sensitivities (American Psychiatric Association 2013). With Autism, the knowledge, understanding and even ability to provide supportive services is just not there. He also really doesn’t seem to understand that despite the DVLA not understanding Autism, so they discriminate against all Autistic people; that the answer to that discrimination is not to make life easier for the DVLA by Autistic people not embracing their differences.