by Guy Shahar Published: 10th December, 2020 As profoundly sensitive beings in an increasingly material and pressure-driven culture, it is easy for our autistic children to feel that they are somehow inadequate. At home, at school and elsewhere, they can easily be given messages that they are slow or clumsy or generally
by Guy Shahar Published: 9th September, 2020 This is a very contentious question concerning all who are autistic or associated with autistic people. Autistic people tend to prefer to be called autistic, while those who work with them professionally tend to prefer to refer to them as people with autism. Why
by Guy Shahar Published: 2nd April, 2020 It’s something that’s often experienced and talked about by autistic people but rarely discussed publicly. It’s the phenomenon that at some point in life, you just run out of steam and find yourself unable to keep up with the way of life you’ve been
by Guy Shahar Published: 21st February, 2020 In the course of family life, as we are growing up, we learn and absorb ways of behaving and communicating from our parents and others, and then we replicate this in our own families when we are older. The process happens unconsciously (which is
by Guy Shahar Published: 9th January, 2020 Guy Shahar asks whether there might be a more useful way to think about autism. Autism is almost universally considered to be a neurological condition. However, I have been learning over recent months and years that while there is undoubtedly a very significant neurological
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