Professionally Autistic
Hi everyone! Not a long blog today, just a few things I need to make you aware of. (and a day late, sorry!) JORIK AT BSU 4th June 2025! First, for those of us who are close to Bath on the 4th June between 5-6pm, I’m doing a talk/launch event/booksigning event at Bath Spa University....
TL;DR – order Breaking the Boundaries here. Hello everyone! As most of you will know, I spend most of my working hours not doing speaking engagements, writing, or updating this blog (perish the thought!). I am a DSA-funded autistic mentor. All disabled university students in the UK qualify for something called Disability (or Disabled) Student...
Hello everyone! I hope you’re all keeping on keeping on, I certainly have been. A quick list of what I’ve been up to: This Saturday Beyond The Spectrum’s festival of autistic writing is on THIS SATURDAY! From 11:00 – 12:00, I will be hosting a panel event with some remarkable guests: Emma Robdale, Chris Bonnello,...
Hi everyone! Sorry I’m not posting as much as you might expect. I’m still plugging away at FFaS here. I’m getting to the end, though – I’ve just sent off a chapter to my editor anyway :-). Wednesday 5th February 2025 I will be speaking at a closed online event, run by NAS Enfield, an...
Hi everyone! Hope you’ve enjoying my interview with The Mollusc Dimension, I’m so happy he’s decided to join me again for a few more questions. If you haven’t read last week’s blog, now is the time to catch up on that. The Mollusc Dimension is a British-born East Asian Diaspora comics artist and writer, who...
Hi everyone! Just popping in from my writing hole (with exciting news in the not-too-distant foreseeable!) to say hello and wish you a happy new 2025. It’s been a year, and despite having a pretty good one personally, I am aware not everyone is in as lucky a position as I am, and I’m thankful...
Cw: early death and ableism, so which is why you’re getting a picture of all the friends instead of a picture of my face. Hi everyone, I hope you’re doing well. This isn’t a happy blog, even if I’m back after a long time. I was going to initially write about how 2 weeks of...
Trigger warnings for mentions of serious diseases and medical incompetence. Hi everyone, Today, I’d like to focus on an experience we find ourselves in whenever we want to interact with the medical system: the blank stare. I’ll explain. The reason I didn’t write a blog last week was simple: I couldn’t. A few days before,...
Hi everyone! Miss ‘Rooonnnaaaahhh…. Okay, so, bad news out of the way first. I’ve definitely got Long Covid. Why? For much of this past week, I’ve been kicking myself for not getting enough done. I’ve been tired, felt uncreative and emotionally flappy. It wasn’t a good week, even if I do now have the majority...
Hi everyone, News! Yup, the tired got me again. Just when I was about to publish more blogs in a single month than in the entire previous year: 4 in 12 months v. 4 in 4 weeks. But 4 in 5 weeks ain’t bad, especially in comparison. I’ve had to promise my mother to no...
