Last Thursday, I was honoured to be invited to be a guest speaker on the Squiggly Careers PodPlus community on Zoom. This was a particularly special moment, as it was a follow-up to their podcast about how to make careers more accessible for neurodivergent individuals. Firstly, I was asked how helpful or unhelpful the terminology or labels used are when it comes to neurodivergent individuals. This answer is one of the broader ones. Certain labels restrict people and place them very much in a box. This box may well fit one day, but another day it could look totally different. However, there is ..read more

Jenga. A game that ends in the inevitability that a structure (the tower) comes tumbling to the ground. Not only that, but also something that has the ability to illustrate what life through a Dyspraxic/Autistic lens is like. Allow me to explain So, I’m sure everyone (unless you’ve been living under a rock) knows the concept of Jenga. You have to try and build a tower with cuboid wooden bricks. The loser is the person who makes the tower fall, which is quite apt for the explanation of what it means to me. To begin with, each day does take a certain amount of energy to get through. Getting up ..read more

There is a reason why I am writing this towards the end of this special week in the awareness days calendar. I am extending this conversation to celebrate those who are keen on pursuing an assessment of a neurodivergent condition, but are unsure of how to go about it. I mean it’s like, tell me the system is restrictive without telling me it’s restrictive. There are more people than you will realise who are neurodivergent in some way. And this will be identified by the individual in their own means. But I feel it’s really important to not discount these people from the equation. You have to as ..read more

It’s Monday- yippee… Said no one ever. In fact that’s a slight lie. I have no challenging social interactions by default on this day. And I make my favourite meal for my tea. But besides that, yes Monday has been it’s usual dose of despair. I can’t actually believe this is my first post of the year- but here it is. OK, so I’m currently going through the process of an Autism assessment. I’ve completed the questionnaire, but have had no further communication as of yet from about 3 weeks ago! See there’s a classic example of masking. Of course what I truly meant to say was something a lot more e ..read more

Today is a day where being a square peg in a non-square hole is a thing I embrace. My role at this particular moment on Sunday, April 3rd 2022, is not making me feel completely devoid of confidence. Instead, I feel energised. I feel part of a conversation that is widening and where hopefully, the voices will spark much needed change in the attitudes towards those with invisible disabilities like Dyspraxia. On Thursday, I’m pleased to report that I was part of a roundtable put together by the Disability Policy Centre which discussed 3 main issues: education, employment and the DWP system. A fe ..read more

In a time of isolation, comes a time to try and curb what’s going on in my head. Don’t get me wrong, there have been some days I haven’t even felt like the first thing on my mind is exercise. But I have changed my mind since attempting to do things that I used to see myself being made a fool of for trying. I’m not scared of attempting the more difficult exercises at this point. Today I wanted to share a few of the exercises that for me, and people with Dyspraxia, due to low muscle tone (often an invisible aspect of an already hidden difference), find that bit more challenging to even attempt ..read more