The vent of a hyperactive mind.

 Welcome to the amazing adventures of Autism Man.  1pm Teaching children using Minecraft 3pm After School club 7pm Struggling to stay awake in front of the TV 8pm Feeling physically ill due to tiredness, stomach pain.  9pm In Bed and 9:15 asleep.  2pm Wide awake and worrying about things that happened yesterday and the work to do later today.  (Feel free to skip this next paragraph to [continue] - it's just the thoughts in my head) I'm stressing (*) about the teachers who I let sign in using their personal emails, because I was so rushed I simply had no time to configure them properly. What if they leave? What if they don't sign out? What if they are signed in to iCloud and more specifically 'find my'. What about my Hwb account, working in the other schools, I'm not an IT tech as seen by county, so I won't be able to log into Intune as my account is down as staff in one school only? How can I transfer it to the other two? They'll likely transfer it, if t...

So fear is a big part of Autism. Fear of things Neurotypicals (NT) presumably, take in their stride, and thats really the purpose of this post, but we'll come on to that later. Like many of my pastimes I've become somewhat obsessed with learning more about Autism and how to address my new niggle, helping people understand how comments like; "We're all a little Autistic",  "Everyone is on the spectrum"  "Autism is a western misconception" (yes, I have had this said to me).  are unhelpful, incorrect, unsympathetic and actually unconsciously ignorant. Turns out comments such as these are known in Neurodivergent circles as 'ableist' and are as offensive to many Autistic folk as Racism is to ethnic minorities.  But why?  Well first let's address what Neurotypicals are trying to do. By playing down our differences and dismissing them as inconsequential, one can only assume that by likening them to their own peculiarities, their motives ar...