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A friendly and accessible autism assessment and identification service for all ages. Helping you find joy in your uniqueness www.pebbleautism.co.uk

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Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · Dec 5

Chris and Sue are the humans behind Pebble Autism. We like to keep things small and friendly. If you’d like to know more about what we do please check out our website www.pebbleautism.co.uk or email us at [email protected]

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Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 3h

It can be hard after a life of people pleasing & masking to know when you are being your authentic self. It may be helpful to start by learning what makes you truly feel comfortable & doing the things, being with the people and in the places where you feel that

Inspired by @jodieclarke.bsky.social

Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 3h

@jodieclarke.bsky.social at the Nurturing Neurodivergence Conference talking about ‘neurodivergent re-wilding’. Thinking about the times when you were most yourself & felt most calm/safe in the past can be so helpful for high masking adults to unpick what they really need in future 👌 🧸 🌳 🎵 🎮📚

Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 5h

Still thinking about the huge list of stigmatising labels that are often applied to autistic children & YP that @kieranrose.bsky.social shared this morning at the Nurturing ND conf. Now @jodieclarke.bsky.social talking about the huge shame carried by autistic kids. Is it any wonder?

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Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 6h

Autistics (age 4-18) on their experiences in school journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "feeling insufficiently challenged was reported by our participants across both mainstream and specialist settings alike. This finding may be driven by the presumption of limited competence held by schools..."

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 6h

Ooh fab, we love Kerry! Thanks for sharing

Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 6h

Enjoying a really stimulating workshop with @kieranrose.bsky.social at the Nurture Programme’s Nurturing Neurodivergence Conference ‘25: Neurodivergence & Trauma. Asking stimulating questions about how we create islands of safety for autistic people

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Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 6d

Looks great Pooky! We’ll add the link to this to the While You Wait section of our website so parents can work with their children’s teachers to start thinking about the sensory environment. I love the idea of your Quick Wins!

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Special Needs Jungle @spcialndsjungle.bsky.social · 7d

Today is PANS/PANDAS Awareness Day — here are 10 things you probably don’t know about the emerging neuropsychiatric conditions of PANS and PANDAS www.specialneedsjungle.com/1... #PANSPANDAS

Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 7d

So sorry to have missed it and yes, huge thanks to Anne

Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 7d

This is an excellent website! We love the Toolkit for autistic adults including sections on managing rejection sensitivity, sensory needs, communication and kink. It also includes positive stories of fulfilling intimate lives. And the photo choices are 👌

SAAIL: Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives @autlives.bsky.social · Feb 10

Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives (SAAIL) have a range of outputs from videos, to toolkits, to podcasts. You can find them all there www.autlives.com/outputs

Outputs | SAAIL: Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives

Supporting Autistic Adults' Intimate Lives outputs

www.autlives.com

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 7d

I know there are lots of neurodivergent creative people here... this may interest some of you if you're in UK...

ndconnection.co.uk/blog/call-fo...

@ndconnection.bsky.social :)

Call for participants: Join the Neurodivergent Creative Research Community — Neurodiverse Connection

In this blog, Kay Louise Aldred , is calling for Neurodivergent adults to take part in a unique, paid research opportunity that values your lived experience and creative passions. 

ndconnection.co.uk

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Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 8d

This thread is well worth a read. In it are some really good examples of why we need to be looking at the autistic experience from the inside-out and not just looking at observable behaviours.

Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @sensorystories.bsky.social · 8d

Rigid thinking is not a universal autistic trait. In fact, some autistic people are more cognitively flexible than most nonautistic people.

So why is cognitive rigidity mentioned in the autism section of the DSM?

Here's my take...

Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 9d

Tree hugging AND Chris Packham klaxon 📣

Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 9d

Tomorrow night at 9pm on #Channel4 I join Xander Armstrong for #PerfectPubWalks , tune in for a bit of ancient history and a spot of tree-hugging . . .

Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 9d

It’s exhausting

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 25d

It's not difficult to recognise autism in girls. You just need to pay attention!

Decades of suffering could be prevented if allistics stopped ignoring female autism.

11 signs of autism in girls.

Relies heavily on other children to guide and speak for her. Passionate restricted and specific interests. Unusual sensitivity to sensory challenges. Conversation is restricted to limited topics of interest. Difficulty moderating feelings when frustrated. Unusual depression, anxiety and moodiness. Difficulty making and keeping friends. Often described as quiet or shy. Unusual passivity. Difficulty with social communication increases with age. Epileptic seizures.

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Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 9d

You know that feeling when you read an interview and think, ‘I’d love to sit and talk and listen with that person for hours’? Well, when can we buy you a coffee AJ Link?!

Fascinating stuff here about tensions and racism in the neurodiversity community and space law 🚀 🪐 👩‍⚖️ 🤯

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 9d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 9d

Be kind, always

SEDSConnective @sedsconnective.org · 9d

“Why did that hurt so much?”
Others might say you’re overreacting.
But they don’t see the storm inside.

www.sedsconnective.org/post/rejecti...

Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 9d

Being autistic doesn’t have a ‘look’. Because of a lifetime of masking (an unconscious survival strategy), some people may not ‘appear autistic’ whatever that means! It’s impossible to understand the autistic experience from the outside, in fact, many people even miss it in themselves.

Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 10d

I wish I didn’t have to say this but…

If someone tells you they’re autistic and you find that hard to believe, it might be because:

- They don’t feel safe enough to unmask around you
- Your knowledge of autism is limited

Arguing won’t help. Kindness, curiosity, and listening to understand, will ❤️

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 10d

Created by Laura Hellfeld to support PANS/PANDAS Conference 2025 our new templates help families, schools & clinicians understand the overlap between neurodivergence & PANS/PANDAS.

https://autisticrealms.com/navigating-pans-pandas-neurodivergence/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 11d

A great set of suggestions

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 19d

I feel so awful for parents of newly diagnosed autistic kids right now, being drowned in such hateful nonsense. You deserve better. Your autistic kid deserves better.

My kid was diagnosed 20 yrs ago; please let me give you hopeful advice:

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/09/afte... #autism #parenting

After an Autism Diagnosis: 13 Necessary Next Steps For Parents — THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM

If your child has recently been given an autism diagnosis, as my son was in 2003, here's what I want you to know: Learn from me, don't be me.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Louise Ting @neuro-observant.bsky.social · 12d

Autistic inertia = difficulty with starting, stopping and switching tasks

It can happen even when:

- you want to do the task
- the task is important or urgent
- you have a clear understanding of what needs to be done
- it’s something as “simple” as getting out of bed or the shower

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Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 11d

No rush!

Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 11d

“True neuro-affirmative practice and care is not a technique or a trend; it is a relational ethic. It begins in the quiet shift that happens when we stop trying to make people fit systems and instead reshape systems to fit people.”

@autisticrealms.bsky.social

Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 11d

Explore what neuro-affirming practice REALLY means. Beyond behaviourism & neurodiversity-lite.

https://autisticrealms.com/protecting-the-meaning-of-neuro-affirming-practice/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 11d

It’s causing someone here at Pebble Towers to wonder why, as an A level English student they ‘failed’ the college’s basic literacy test. It’s likely they were using language in a neuroqueer way that wasn’t appreciated by the ‘desk-Johnny’ tasked with marking it 🤔

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Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 11d

This is gorgeous and fascinating writing

Julia Lee Barclay-Morton @julialeebarclay.bsky.social · Sep 14

About my Autistic thought ancestors most of whom are younger than me...

open.substack.com/pub/julialee...

"...these thousands of little witnesses..."

...and the mycilian network of my thought ancestors...

open.substack.com

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