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Second Trimester; Mentally Preparing

Pregnant & Winging It - an image of a pregnant person with a heart in their bump. Some wavy lines and stars around the design.

“Pregnant & Winging It” is a short series about a first-time pregnant Autistic woman in Nottingham. Claire writes about her views and experiences around pregnancy and how it’s not all as she expected /*! elementor – v3.20.0 – 11-03-2024 */.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px} Mentally preparing for being pregnant, and then ofContinue reading “Second Trimester; Mentally Preparing”

Second Trimester; Medical Appointments

“Pregnant & Winging It” is a short series about a first-time pregnant Autistic woman in Nottingham. Claire writes about her views and experiences around pregnancy and how it’s not all as she expected /*! elementor – v3.20.0 – 11-03-2024 */.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px} The second trimester should be when you’ve adaptedContinue reading “Second Trimester; Medical Appointments”

Q&A Session – September 2023

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Hello All! Thank You to those who attended our Q&A Session; it was a good range of questions and discussions. Originally we had planned to record the meeting and put up the video, but there were various reasons why we thought actually doing a blog post and putting it all down in writing might beContinue reading “Q&A Session – September 2023”

Welcome to Our Training Team

Training & Development, Education, Employment and Acceptance

Our Training Team has just gotten bigger and we’d like to tell you all about it! But first we’d like to say a special Thank You to a group called “Autism R US” who recently ended their long running project in Nottinghamshire and in doing so donated all of their closing finances to us atContinue reading “Welcome to Our Training Team”

UK Tests Emergency Alert System

The UK Government are going to be testing their new Emergency Alert system based off systems used in countries such as the United States. There is a BBC Article about this here. This system means that in the event of an emergency situation, such a natural disasters, every person nearby with a functioning mobile phoneContinue reading “UK Tests Emergency Alert System”

Autism & Families – Peer Support August 2022

Slide 01Autism & FamiliesPeer SupportAugust 2022 Slide 02Every family is different. Some of us are lucky and have supportive and understanding families. Some of us are less fortunate and have families that are the site of mistreatment. Some Families are a mixture.Being Autistic can complicate relationships with your family we want to discuss how thisContinue reading “Autism & Families – Peer Support August 2022”

The Autism Show and Naidex report!

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Our Social Activities Co-ordinator Charlie attended The Autism and Naidex exhibitions to see how good they were for Autistic people. Below are their reports. The Autism Show – 14th -15th June 2022 I went down as an individual, and took 2 friends with me also. We were joined on the second day by my mum.Continue reading “The Autism Show and Naidex report!”

Autism, Co-occuring Conditions and Diagnosis – Peer Support July 2022

Slide 01Autism, Co-occurring Conditions & Diagnosis Peer SupportJULY 2022 Slide 02Co-Occuring Conditions These are medical conditions and diagnoses that are commonly found in people with Autism. They are also called “Co-Morbid”, but we choose not to use this term because it imparts a negative judgement. We’ll be looking at a few based on research andContinue reading “Autism, Co-occuring Conditions and Diagnosis – Peer Support July 2022”

Healthy BoundariesHealthy FriendshipsPeer Support May 2022

Slide01Healthy BoundariesHealthy FriendshipsPeer Support May 2022 Slide02What are boundaries?Personal Boundaries are rules and limits we set for how we interact with others including how much we give or take in interactions.They are also an invisible line between ourselves and other people. They keep us from losing our sense of self among others and knowing whoContinue reading “Healthy BoundariesHealthy FriendshipsPeer Support May 2022”

The Reason I Jump

#AccessibleMedia Slide01The Reason I JumpMedia Review AccessibleMedia The Reason I Jump 2020 Vulcan Productions, Inc., The British Film Institute,Picturehouse Entertainment Director: Jerry RothwellImage Shows: A film poster for ‘The Reason I Jump’. On the poster a young boy with dark hair looks up and to the left against a glowing orange and blue sky. Slide02OriginsTheContinue reading “The Reason I Jump”