Support for autistic people

Guest spotlight: This article comes to you from Becky Stone, a qualified eating disorder specialist, supporting autistic clients with food sensitivity and eating disorder recovery. Most eating disorder programmes assume that more food = better recovery. But for autistic clients, forcing food can backfire, especially when no one asks why a texture, sound or temperature feels unbearable. Imagine you’re told to eat something that once made you gag. Or sit at a noisy dinner tabl

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

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 find the answers to the questions below useful. Caveat: all statements are my own views and I respect that your own perspective may differ. What is autism? To my knowledge, there are broadly-speaking two main views on this at present. There is the historically dominant pathology-informed view, which presents autism as a disorder to be mana

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