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 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
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
by Guy Shahar Published: 10th September 2017 I have spoken and written a lot about how I see sensitivity and an associated idealism as still largely unrecognised factors lying at the heart of autism. The condition of anxiety that they lead to, however, is already becoming increasingly recognised as an
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