Professionally Autistic
Hello everyone, Apologies for the lateness of the last blog, apologies for the newsletter system not yet working, apologies for things all taking a bit longer – it’s all due to the housemove! I was already going to write about this house move, what I did right, what I did wrong and how to take...
Hello everyone, I hope you’ve been keeping well and healthy. This is the third and final part of my series on Autistic coding on stage. I’m moving house this week, so everything is a bit intense at the moment, hence the late publication of this blog. I’ll return to the subject of moving house and...
Hello everyone! Here is part two of my analysis of autistic coding in musical theatre. If you haven’t read last week’s blog about being on stage, please do. Find it here:https://jorikmol.com/sunday-23rd-august-2020-autistic-coding-on-stage-dear-evan-hansen-the-view-upstairs-and-me-1/ As before, trigger warnings for violence and emotional abuse and spoilers for absolutely everything. Autistic coding is different in the theatre than in the...
Hi everyone! This is a longer-form piece of analysis of the autistic coding of certain characters in three recent examples of popular musical theatre shows. If that’s not to your interest, there are other pages on the internet ;-). It will be in two or three parts, discussing the context of autistic coding, then apply...
Hello everyone. In this blog I will discuss extremism, violence – including violence against women – and radicalisation. Therefore, if you are unwilling or unable to read this blog – I completely understand. Not every blog is for you, there’s nothing wrong with that. Watch my co-chairing a session for Autistica’s Research Festival this year...
Edit: 9th August 2020 I was notified by a friend that I misused the term neurodiverse to refer to people who are autistic, dyslexic, dyspraxic, have add/ADHD and associated conditions and identities. We are, in fact, neurodivergent. Neurodiversity is a spectrum of all neurodiversities, including those who are neurotypical. I will change this in following...
Hi everybody! This week I’m taking a break from talking about depression in order to focus on a more executive function-related topic: preparation. How do I, as an autistic person, prepare for potentially stressful situations? I haven’t found a lot in the literature about autistic preparation strategies, though I’m happy to be proven wrong. As...
Note: 27th July 2020 – I was given some very useful feedback about the references. I have removed a source that according to a scientist friend was harder to justify than the other sources. Hi everyone. I’ve been away for over a month. This is because of a depressive episode I’ve spent the past few...
Where Jorik accepts that, for now, productivity is not priority 1 and provides links to amplify the situations three young autistic men of colour find themselves in. Black Lives Matter.
A guide on precautions for protesting while autistic.
