Professionally Autistic
I was going to write a blog about Autscape, but that’ll have to wait until next week. Instead, on Friday, I found out that Steve Silberman had passed away unexpectedly in his sleep, just as I was going to attend a talk of a new friend I’d made this year. I was pretty broken up....
Hi everyone, So. Today I’m sick as a dog. Part of that, for me, is that speaking becomes very difficult. I am too tired to speak. This is a source of joy to everyone who knows me, because they can finally speak without me interrupting them and make them accountable for what they’re saying. Yes...
Hi everyone, I am not going to apologise for once again not having written this blog for ages. I know, it sounds weird – it’s such a quintessential Jorik thing to do – don’t blog for ages, then worry about worrying about worrying. It’s a vibe, I ride it. Pride! Yesterday, my partner and I...
Hi everyone! Okay, okay, I can explain. At length, of course! That’s what I do, after all! I’ve been away. Don’t worry, I’m not dead, or in prison or kidnapped and held for ransom. I’m still here, plugging away, and, unexpectedly, really happy! But before I continue telling you where I’ve been all this time,...
Hi everyone! So, when I said I was busy before September, I wasn’t lying. Here’s another project of mine. Sometimes things come onto my path. I’ve learned to be a bit jammy and see how they may go. By January 2023, I had been collating interviews for Feeling Fast and Slow for about 5 months....
Hi everyone! You’ve either been coming to this blog for a while now, in which case: welcome! I’m very happy to see you back. For the rest of you, you’ve probably found this blog via the QR-code on the side of my poster, at the Neurodiversity in Higher Education conference at the University of Bristol....
Hi everyone! Yes – I know. It’s half a year since one of these and now there’s two of them at once (please have a look at ‘Monday 11th September 2023: On Being a Neurodivergent Mentor Plus Book!’ also. Love to get some traffic going on this website after all this graft). Well, on the...
Hi everyone, So, here’s the thing. I’m back in burnout land. It’s not a nice place. I’m not sure what’s going on or what caused it. But here it is. I’m burned out again. You’ll notice I’m oversharing in this blog because, well; burned out, I guess! I do know that, once again, I didn’t...
Hi everybody! Hope you’re doing great and that you’re surviving the month of blue hell on the internet that is Autism “awareness” month. I’ve been pretty aware all my life, honestly. It’s exhausting to meet the nonsense halfway, especially now companies are using algorithms to pick out who might be autistic due to the pages...
Hi everyone! Not much from me today, I’m mostly writing this quick blog to inform you that my talk at the University of Exeter this Friday will go live tonight at 20:00 GMT. Some of this you will have heard me talk about these things before: in talks, on blogs and, if you’re the editor...
