Recruiting for a Dissertation Study:
Hi, my name is Nicole, and I am a neurodivergent parent. I am a third-year student at Edge Hill University studying psychology. I am looking at how parents with autism spectrum condition experience parenthood for my dissertation. As a neurodivergent parent myself, when I came to research what it would be like becoming a parent, I found very little. I believe research needs to be expanded in this area to not only support and help the community but also wider health professionals. And that mothers who have autism deserve as loud of a voice, especially in the research fields as any other neurotypical mother. Every thing i have came across seems to have been around parenting children with autism, or treating the condition as something to be 'handled', usually attaching quite negative viewpoints to it. I want to explore how those who have children and themselves have autism find parenting. I am going into this as objective as I can be, however I do have t be aware of my own preconceived ideas based upon my own experiences. But ultimately, I want this study to be a parent centred, non-judgmental and open ended study.
If you wouldn’t mind giving a 30–60-minute interview with myself and have given birth in the last two years to your first child and are aged 18 or over and are female, please get in touch via my universities email: 24541532@edgehill.ac.uk. I would be extremely grateful for any participation and believe this would shed a light on an experience extremely unique and not talked about enough.
Thank you for reading, I hope to hear from any of you.
