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Discover insights on being an autistic mum from a UK counsellor. Explore personal experiences and support for being an autistic mum.

Discover effective strategies for finding counselling for autistic adults that aligns with your values. Carefully-selected tips from your autsitic therapist.

It might be that, like me, you are autistic and the presence of structure and clarity in your environment is really important.

Seeing yourself as inferior can come through in many ways. Unsurprisingly, few of them are beneficial to your wellbeing. What can be done?

When you first realise you are autistic, whether through self-identification or formal assessment, it can be an unsettling time.

Here I look at some popular Google search terms on the subject of autism. If you have recently come to identify as autistic, then you may...

It is not unusual to find that your relationships with partner, family or friends change after you realise you are autistic.

It seems we, autistic people, often feel a strong need to fit in with the neurotypical way of communicating. Is there a middle ground?

People ask, "How can you help me?". An autistic therapist's honest view on how counselling helps clients in distress.

This post is about identity , a concept in my opinion necessarily co-validated by the individual and the group, within or near which the...

It may have been done for you in a sense, diagnosed in childhood following suggestions from educational settings, where certain autistic...

Hard to find the right words? Any words. Especially when talking about feelings ? Want to be around people but it is just not comfortable...

Once you're in it, you just know. It takes over. There is the anger and the tiredness ..a heavy tiredness. Climb-into-bed-for-days...