https://www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/campaign/our-new-campaign/now-i-know-campaign
Have you seen the new campaign on autism and non-binary people and women?
Let's share, share, share.
I am proud and delighted to put my personal story into the public domain to support this campaign. There are six powerful stories here and between us we really dig at how age, gender, sexuality, race complicate, compound and confuse the stereotype of what Autism looks like. We may well be making ourselves vulnerable in a public domain. But we are doing it because we care for thoes who follow. That message comes out loud and strong. We are what autism looks like and we care!
I will never forget that Dr Sarah Lister Brooks, of the NAS National Autistic Society Lorna Wing Centre, saved my life with the pronouncement that I was autistic on Nov 19 2021. My gratitude is boundless. And that night I danced.
I am now too old and crabby to be worried about what anyone thinks of me. I lived for 56 years without my truth. I coped until it almost killed me. But I have my truth now and it will be heard. Not for me, but for the girls in primary schools now and the old folk who may still not know.
