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Review: Girl Unmasked, by Emily Katy
Description To the outside world, Emily looks like a typical girl, with a normal family, living an ordinary life. But inside, Emily does not feel typical, and the older she gets, the more she realises that she is different.As she finally discovers when she is 16, Emily is autistic. Girl Unmasked is the extraordinary story…
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Book Review: Empire of Normality – Neurodiversity and Capitalism, by Robert Chapman
Blurb Neurodiversity is on the rise. Awareness and diagnoses have exploded in recent years, but we are still missing a wider understanding of how we got here and why. Beyond simplistic narratives of normativity and difference, this groundbreaking book exposes the very myth of the ‘normal’ brain as a product of intensified capitalism. Exploring the…
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Monotropism is getting some attention. At last!
Monotropism is experiencing a bit of a moment on TikTok, apparently. What is Monotropism? It’s a hypothesis of autistic and ADHD attention that suggests that in atypical brains processing resource strongly tends to localize and concentrate to the exclusion of other input – resulting in passionate interests, differences in attention, and flow states. The first…
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A video about Neurodiversity from someone there at the beginning.
I wish I’d found this while I was doing my research! Or been able to get to Autscape in 2021. I’m going to Autscape this year though. You may be aware of the recent hoo-haa caused by Judy Singer being a transphobic tit-head. Martijn Dekker was the person who set up InLv – the Independent…
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Narrativium in Neurodiversity: Shards of Reality
This post is inspired by an article in New Humanist Autumn 2022 issue, and a draft chapter of a book that I’d reading for a scholar friend. Narrativium is an ‘element’ from Discworld (1), that exists to produce the story in history. Humans respond to tales, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling ape (thank you…
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Neurodivergent History at Turntable Gallery
Seasonal greetings to one and all. This is me. On Wednesday, the final show of the year opened at Turntable Gallery in Grimsby. It’s only open for a few days, now that they’ve closed for Christmas. They are open again Thursday to Saturday next week, 11am to 3pm. There are a few new things to…
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New exhibition and the e-book is now available
7th November I lugged the displays and a box of booklets across town to Centre4, on the Nunsthorpe, in Grimsby. The exhibition is installed around the building and copies of the booklet are available to take away and read. Talking of books, I finally got around to turning the booklet into an e-book, in PDF…
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Cleethorpes Exhibition
I’m in Cleethorpes Library today, at the start of a week long exhibition of the project. The room I booked is quite busy on a Wednesday, with a dance and poetry group in the morning and a craft group in the afternoon. With the help of library staff I got the exhibition in place between…
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Evaluation Time!
My funding for the main project, of which this is an offshoot, comes from The Heritage Lottery Fund. So, I have to do an evaluation of the project. If you’ve been to one of the displays, or picked up a copy of the booklet somewhere, please complete the evaluation form. Evaluation Form Here
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First official event!
I’m at Waltham Library today, and tomorrow afternoon. Display for is open noon to 4pm. There are booklets and such for people to take away. If you’re in North East Lincolnshire come for a visit. We had an unofficial event at Neurospace last week because we had visitors, but this is the first booked event.…