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Autism, Menopause, and Reaching Breaking Point: A Hidden Crisis
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Autism and ADHD in education
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Autistic and navigating chronic health challenges
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The Autistic perimenopause
Sam Galloway (BSc Psychology with Hons, Primary PGCE, MA in Education) is a late diagnosed Autistic and ADHD midlife woman. She advocates for Autistic and neurodivergent menopause as a distinct life...
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Active coping and self-advocacy strategies
In this article, Luella Wheeler, shares from her own experience some shifts in thinking, habits and self-advocacy that have helped to navigate managing chronic health conditions. She has been fortunate...
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Autistic and queer: A summer reading list
Just in time for the summer holidays, River Kingston shares another list of 10 books that feature excellent Autistic queer representation. Stories. They hold our experiences and imagine our...
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Finding others who “get it” can be life-changing for neurodivergent adults. In Dunedin, that kind of in-person peer support was missing – until Jeroen and Marco started Neurodiversity Dunedin, which...
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: another dimension of neurodifference
Content note: OCD themes discussed include fear of suicide, health anxiety and moral scrupulosity. What happens when being Autistic interacts with having obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)? Here four...
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Autism prevalence in Aotearoa: What national data are telling us
People often wonder how many Autistic people there are in Aotearoa New Zealand. This is a difficult question to answer, as we do not have a single national system for recording autism diagnoses. Over...
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