Tag: education
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Autistic and not buying into the “preparing them for the real world” argument
It’s a debate you see you come up every now and then that never fails to go away. For young people in general, you see a lot of comments about preparing them “for the real world”. However, there can be another layer added to this when it comes to autistic people advocating for their needs.…
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9 things I’d like my younger neurodivergent self to know.
For those of us who have always been neurodivergent, but discover that we are when we are adults, we can have a lot of feelings about how things could have been. Although this is something I have made peace with now, there are still things I wish my younger self knew about being neurodivergent. Yes…
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How the UK government’s attendance policy is harmful: a neurodivergent perspective
School attendance policies have always been a sticking point with many neurodivergent people, as lots of us could not attend school for reasons beyond our control. Some of us (and our parents) would have faced unfair consequences as a result of low attendance during school. However, often it’s not due to us “skiving”. Fresh after…
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I’ve published my first academic paper!
Hello everyone, My post will be rather brief today, but that’s because I have more of an update rather than a longer blog post. This week, a paper I co-authored on was published in a journal! It’s a true pinch me moment. Growing up, I was not considered academic and instead received the backhanded complement…
Sarah Boon 