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Our Blog includes posts and articles on Autism covering a wide range of subjects and providing useful insights and guidance.
Autistic Burnout
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 living. It may happen gradually through a lifetime of increasing
How Our Subtle Messages Can Impact Autistic Children
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 why we can sometimes be surprised to find that we
Autism: A Condition Of The Heart
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 element to it, autism is also a condition of the
The Lived Experience Of Autism
by Guy Shahar Published: 6th September, 2019 This is a slightly different article from usual and elaborates on a talk given by the author at a panel on this theme at the Hay Festival, 2019. This article is based in part on my own experience, but also draws on and chimes closely with that of many other autistic people. My own
Avoiding Frustration
by Guy Shahar Published: 30th July, 2019 Finding the one thing that can make the difference between calmness and anxiety. My son still sometimes gets into a state of frustration due to some residual fears and anxieties as described in the previous Overcoming Fears article. We have noticed something that we weren’t able to explain. Sometimes, when we try to help
Overcoming Fears
by Guy Shahar Published: 25th April, 2019 After returning from our time at the Mifne Centre in Israel in 2011, it was like a rebirth for my son. No longer unhappy, continually frustrated, overwhelmed and cut off; instead suddenly filled with joy and determined to explore his life. Despite the challenge of a busy school, which was building to nearly 1000
Do Rewards Help or Harm Autistic Children?
by Guy Shahar Published: 6th Dec, 2018 I have noticed recently that my son’s school seems to be using rewards and punishments routinely with their children. They get stickers if they say “good morning” to the teacher who welcomes them, they get vouchers for high street shops for good attendance, and they are required to sit out of fun periods where children
What My Autistic Child Taught Me About Parenting
by Guy Shahar Published: 10th September, 2018 This article brings together many of the strands of learning that we have undergone on our journey taking care of our son. It has been written for and published in Attachment Parenting UK. Please click below to visit their site and read it there.
Why Life with Autism is a Struggle
How Early Intervention can make such a difference by Guy Shahar Published: 26th July, 2018 In almost all cases, life with autism is a struggle. But it is not the autism that is the cause of this struggle. We have suggested many times that autism itself is a condition of open-hearted goodwill with mutual support at its core and in which competitiveness,
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