Professionally Autistic
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, This week saw some seriously good news. I heard that the government will amend the Mental Health Act to reduce the sectioning of Britons of colour, as well as removing autism and learning disabilities as reasons to detain someone against their will; potentially indefinitely. See here for more information: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/13/mental-health-act-reforms-black-people-sectioned It shows that,..
Hi everyone! Happy new year. Or, rather, as happy a year as possible at the moment. We’re all learning to manage our expectations. This week’s blog is focussed once again on the pandemic, it’s about being ill. If you haven’t read it: Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill is an amazing essay I first read in..
