Tag: women with autism

A year ago, I had the privilege of joining three other autistic women to film a segment for a Channel 4 documentary.

In an age where cuts to support are justified by shifting the goalposts of ‘need’ , the Paralympics are held up as an example of what all disabled people ‘could’ achieve with a little bit of spunk and a can-do attitude.

The next week (or so) has been bequeathed from hell to challenge me. 

Seeing Norbert Neurotypical – with his banking job and his wife and his baby and his mortgage and his vegetable couscous lunch – just makes me feel like a fraud playing at being an adult .

I realised it was okay to work with what I have, rather than trying to work with what other people expected me to have.