Published on 12, July, 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-59352983
Melanie Sykes has just been diagnosed as being autistic
She like many here remained undiagnosed until later in life.
very positive article
Thank you so much for posting this. I can't put into words how I feel. Hopefully this should be a positive step in helping people understand autism and breaking down stereotypes.
Edit - also mixed feelings that it should take a highish profile celebrity who doesnt fit the stereotypical mould to announce this in order for people to start listening.
Further edit - I like melanie sykes. I don't know much about the other one just that she's always in the local news website it seems wanting attention about her kids. I'm sure it must be difficult for her but I can't help feeling she uses it just yo get "air time".
Duno Greta Tuneburg is autistic and she does nothing to raise awareness for it. Besides harp on about climate change. She's constantly in the public eye but does nothing back to it. Eminem at least raps about his strugels with ADHD. But ADHD is separate though as I have both anyway.
It seems like she doesn't need to in Germany, perhaps. NZ and Denmark also seem like they have a base understanding of the neuro-difference.
oh'll i have to look have a look at the TED site
Actually Greta Thunberg talks about being autistic quite a bit, and the family wrote a book about her and her sister's experiences growing up. If you watch her TED talk from when she was 15, Greta raises selective mutism, depression and eating disorders as well as autism.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/sep/25/greta-thunberg-i-really-see-the-value-of-friendship-apart-from-the-climate-almost-nothing-else-matters
There does seem to be a correlation between autism and environmentalism, from Dara McAnulty to Darryl Hannah.
Models and presenters coming out may help people pay attention.
Don't get me wrong she's done s good thing but if you had that kind of lime light in the public eye you could do more for aweness not slating her just saying there aren't enough famous autistic people who ease aweness or mention the strugels
She has raised the bar for climate change awareness. I can't knock her for that. Maybe she has more important things to be vocal about than her autism. I'm saying tv personality doesn't usually fit the mould.
there is no way i am going to knock a fellow autistic doing so well. Viva Greta I say.