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Lifestyle

Me and Identity

Welcome to my new “Me and…” series where I talk about my experiences on a vast and wide range of topics, which will be a new series to liven up my Lifestyle blogs as I feel they are quite lacking. I mostly plan on doing it for entertainment and just something for people to read, […]

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Lifestyle

Slow Autism Diagnosis and Lack of Support

According to the charity Ambitious About Autism, 1 in 100 children in the UK have Autism but a poll conducted on almost 4,000 parents of children with Autism by the charity reveals that almost half of parents have had to wait 18 months or longer to get a diagnosis which in the meantime wastes valuable […]

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Lifestyle Politics

Locking up Those with Autism Under the Mental Health Act is Tantamount to Human Rights Abuse

As someone with Autism I am absolutely appalled that in this state and age we find those with Autism and other learning-difficulties being locked away in mental-health holding cells against their and even in a number of cases, their families will. The conditions they are being kept in, small rooms, the absolute minimum human contact, […]