Hello there...

I'm Mat and I'm going to admit right upfront that I am not from the UK, neither from any other country belonging to the Commonwealth, the Crown or even that uses English as their main language. I hope you guys don't mind and let me exist here. You see, I love the British Isles and it's always been sort of one of my special interests. Also, I have a small garden where I love to sit and sip tea from triangular bags from a Union Jack-mug while listening to The Jam. I think it can hardly get anymore fake British, now can it?

But that's not the main reason I chose to register here on this forum. You see, where I live, in Germany, anything Autism-related is so terribly underwhelming and underdeveloped. I actually wrote plenty of eMails to some of the Autism organizations, asking them to do more than the bare minimum in exchange for the probably interesting subventions they get but conversations stop after a single eMail exchange, two at most. It's disheartening.

So I'm taking the liberty of taking refuge here. I've shown this site to many people as an example of how I would love Autism awareness to be present online but we are very, very far from that. So I hope nobody takes offense at my presence as a refugee. I promise to be well-behaved.