Month: November 2022

I am frequently fascinated and sometimes a bit horrified by the explanations that my clients give me to explain their feelings, thoughts and behaviours. The vast majority of these concerning explanations are steeped in a belief of ‘personal failure’, misattribution to ‘trauma’ and blaming ‘bad parenting’. While insufficient effort to change, traumatic experience and poor … Read more

“Why can’t parents talk about their experience with Autism?” ‘Because unless they’re Autistic parents,they’re not talking about their “experience with autism”.They are talking about their observations of their Autistic child,filtered through their own non-Autistic perspective.’ The common response Actually, it’s more complicated than that. We know that most parents of Autistic kids are also Autistic … Read more