Cover to Breaking the Boundaries: On Lived-Experience Mentorship for Autistic Students in Higher Education - Jorik Mol

Monday 12th May 2025: Breaking the Boundaries

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..

An image with the book cover of Silverstein and Picano's The Joy of Gay Sex, but a shirtless Jorik holds two fingers over the word 'Gay' and, in post, has added 'Autistic' to it.

Monday 28th March 2022: Sex and relationships 1: Gender and Sexuality Conference + Poetry + Sex Education for Autistics

Hi everyone! Two days late, but you know. It’s fine. Also, it’s a massive blog. Look at it. I’m talking about sex today. Yes, autistic people can have sex, and incredible sex at that. We have sexual desire and we are just as likely as neurotypicals to want, need or desire sex. However, we are..

Monday 18th October 2021: Autistic At Work – Mentoring/Being a Freelancer

CW: discussions of suicide and mental illness. Hi everyone, I hope you’re doing great. There wasn’t a blog last week, due to me working for Autminds, a Dutch-language autistic-rights conference (they were all wonderful and I’m happy I was of use). I am trying to keep to what I promised myself previously. I need to..

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