Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation
Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation
Trigger warning: mentions of suicide. Movember began in Australia in 2003, when two men were talking in a pub in Melbourne. The first year was simply a challenge to see if they could convince other friends to grow a moustache. 30 Mo Bros grew their facial hair; it was not a fundraising exercise. A year later it involved almost 480 people, and raised around $54,000. Within 10 years they’d raised over $685 million for men’s[…]
It is Men’s Health Week 2024. As part of this, More Than Quirky is looking into an aspect of autism that isn’t often discussed: undiagnosed males. What happens if we don’t adequately recognise our autistic boys, and they grow into unconfirmed autistic men? It is often shared that the increase in females and gender-diverse young people being diagnosed with autism is related to initial definitions of autism being based on the typical “male presentation”. Autistic[…]
Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation
