Ways to take part.
Pick the one that fits your life right now. You can add another whenever you like.
Four ways in. Start with one.
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Start here
Make your card
Say what your brain needs, in whatever way suits you.
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Shape the November list
Tell us what organisations should do when they ask.
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Invite your organisation
Ask a workplace, school or service to promise on the Register.
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Ask the question
On the first Thursday of November, ask the people around you what their brains need.
Go further. When you are ready.
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Write to someone with power
Tell a decision maker what the November list asks of them.
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Share your story
Tell us what understanding changed for you, or what it would change.
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Campaign studio
Plan where you will ask the question, and what you want to change.
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The shop
Every size measured, every item with sensory notes.
The latest. From the campaign.
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Allyship is a verb. Not a badge.
Allyship is something you do. It is not something you are.
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On being newly identified as Autistic.
You have not become Autistic. You have always been Autistic. What has changed is that you now have a word for it, and a community, and a way of reading your own life.
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The numbers are not the story.
Autism prevalence is often quoted as one in a hundred, one in seventy, one in forty four, depending on who you ask and where they are counting. The numbers vary. They are not the story.
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Medicine has not been kind.
If you are Autistic and you have had a bad experience in a medical setting, you are not unusual. You are in the majority.
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Autism in later life.
The late diagnosis cohort is moving into its fifties, sixties, seventies, and the public conversation about autism has not caught up.
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Autism Went Mainstream. The Systems Did Not.
We’ve run Think Autism four times now and I still can’t predict how the day will go.
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Autism and school. The first system to fail us.
Most Autistic adults carry some version of school trauma. The setting failed us early, and it failed us consistently, and many of us did not recover the relationship with learning that we might otherwise have had.
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Autistic Pride Day is no longer one day.
Originally created on 18 June 2005 by autistic led advocacy group Aspies for Freedom, Autistic Pride Day was built as a day for autistic people to define themselves on their own terms.
