Autism Show

Sounds like an improvement.

A bit more adult focused I thought this time

I was busy trying to find answers to some of my access to health care problems. Shame as I missed out on some of the talks I'd like to have seen.

I did get a chance to meet with Amanda from the now I know campaign and to chat to the NAS staff.

I'm sorry I missed out on the VR experience though

I went to one in Manchester last year. I'm not sure how you would go about making a conference/exposition event autism-friendly, but they certainly had not achieved it. I thought it was heavily weighted towards children and professionals connected with autism. There were sessions by and about adult autistic people, which were interesting and a small minority of the stalls were good - mostly the ones with books. I went with my autistic daughter, while I was more used to the environment, having attended many conferences with my work, she felt quite overwhelmed after a few hours.

Hi Dawn, Really nice to see you on here. Yes I did go in London. I only managed to stay about 2 hours before I needed to leave, but I achieved what I had gone to see.

I really wanted to see the exhibitors for autistic adults and there were two at London that  I went to see. I didn't go to the Brain in Hand exhibit as I can't fund the price tag for the programme. I also didn't go to the NAS stall because that was a bit busy and I didn't really have anything I wanted to discuss with them. I didn't use the room for time out from the show, because you had to ask for access to it.

Some of the talks looked good and I would have gone for the two days, but that's not how it panned out as I had to be somewhere on the Saturday.

What did you do/see/think?