An Autistic person: “I think in many ways we autistic are the normal ones and the rest of the people are pretty strange—especially when it comes to the sustainability crisis." And now over to an NT person: ...and another: ...Oh and this was quite nice... But yes, we're the problem that needs fixing..... As an aside it's really quite scary to see how the Twitterverse is now seemingly obsessed with the use of the word 'Aspergers' and how we should call ourselves something else in case anyone gets upset by it. All this and it's only Tuesday.

Wow....what a fantastic Autism Awareness Month it's turning out to be. A few months back I had the pleasure of being blocked by part-time mentalist and full-time homeopath Mr Alan Freestone (of Birmingham....figures) for pointing out to him (via Twitter) that his claims that he could cure Autism via Skype were in fact utter bollocks. I must admit that the idea of this technique - with all the buffering and the like - was more amusing than upsetting so thought nothing more of it. Until today that is. You see according to an article in The Times, curing Autism via the internet is only one of his talents as he also claims to have treated 1,185 Autistic folk with remedies such as carcinosinum, made from cancerous breast tissue; lyssin, made with rabid dog saliva; and medorrhinum, made from the discharge of a man with gonorrhea. Yes, really. But the best thing about it is Professor Gino Martini, chief scientist at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society's comment...

Spent yesterday afternoon with twin thing 1 at the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre 's Autism friendly Romans workshop yesterday and what an utterly fantastic day it was! A pleasant environment, wonderfully helpful and approachable staff plus a brilliant and interesting array of activities - just enough to keep everyone entertained but not too many as to be overwhelming - made this workshop the perfect way to end the holidays. Completely hands on and totally accessible to all, the event covered all the bases from arts and craft-based shield designing to working Roman trebuchets via swords and armour (that you could try out) that culminated in a trip to the museum stores to admire (up close) ancient brooches and statues as well as an actual floor tile from Pompeii.  "On my signal, unleash hell!....and Kinder chocolate....lots of it!"  With the structured part of the day running at just under 90 mins, there was plenty of time afterwards to revisit ...

To share this with you. Come on it's 2019......Do I really have to tell you that Jesus can't 'cure' Autism with prayer and we're not possessed by the Devil?

Apologies for the late review (not in a Tom Paulin way obviously) but it's the Easter holidays and we've been busy stopping the podlings destroying the house. Confession time - When events about Autism that involves chat are usually announced my default setting mostly resets to 'righteous Autistic anger' as there have been so many times that whatever is said and done always appears to be not only from an NT carer/parent professional point of view but also set in stone. Refer to yourself as an Autistic person? Nah we use person with Autism says the NT speaker. Explaining a meltdown? That's not how Autism works says the NT teacher (you know who you are). So when the 'A conversation with fathers about autism' event was first announced I was at once intrigued, interested and a wee bit worried. I honestly shouldn't have been because as far as evenings like this go it managed to hit the perfect balance between honesty and informative witho...