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Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation

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Quirky Infinity logo Empowering neurodivergent people through understanding and conversation

Stimming

Chronic pain or Chronic complaining?

There are many reason why neurodivergent children (and adults) experience chronic or frequent pain. If your child expresses that they are feeling pain, please don’t assume they are being attention seeking or hypochondriacal, or imagining it. While the experience of pain, or the expression of it, might differ to neurotypical behaviours, it is no less valid. Especially given the number of perfectly rational explanations ND people have for chronic pain that neurotypical people are far[…]

Q&A: How Do I Teach My Child To Act Like Other Kids?

Q. We are very lucky that my son (autistic age 7) has been invited to most of the birthday parties for his classmates even the ones that are a small group instead of the whole class. But for me it’s really upsetting because when we’re there it’s really obvious how different he is to his classmates. They try to include him but a lot of the time he doesn’t join in like everyone else or[…]

The Beauty of Stimming in Public

Due to generations of autistic people who can mask being expected (if not taught and forced!) to mask, there is a dire lack of visual representation and recognition of autistic adults in the community statistically. As a result, there is a rather magical effect when role models stim. A similar positive effect has been seen recently in neurodivergent circles, when both Billie Eilish and Louis Capaldi have been transparent about their experience with Tourette’s, and[…]

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