Autism Month – April 2023 – Autistic Nottingham

Positivity and Negativity – When is it Toxic and When is it Healthy?

A white background image. In the centre a set of balancing scales, the left a light orange "positivity" and the right a dark orange "negativity". Beneath reads: Both are needed in balance, it's finding that balance that is the hard part...

Intention Statement Before I start this post, I just wanted to set the intention, tone, or whatever you would like to call it. I am writing this as an Autistic woman who has had very severe anxiety in the past. It’s now quite well handled, but I still get some severe rumination and other annoyingContinue reading “Positivity and Negativity – When is it Toxic and When is it Healthy?”

Social Care Budgets & Autistic Adults

4 black and white cartoon characters stood together talking with the title "Personal Assistants"

Hi, I’m Alice, and I am the Head of Support Services for Autistic Nottingham. I wasn’t sure what to write about for this months blog series so I thought I’d talk about what I know, and that’s social care budgets for Autistic adults. A lot of people come to us as a charity asking forContinue reading “Social Care Budgets & Autistic Adults”

Heading off to do a degree or a postgraduate qualification?

As an Autistic student it would be well worth your while to apply for the Disabled Student Allowance [DSA]. Not only can you get your hands on some useful software and some nice kit to play it on, but you could also be provided with some very useful one to one support. ApplyingThere is an excellentContinue reading “Heading off to do a degree or a postgraduate qualification?”

How Not To Cope.

For most of my life, I have been incredibly guilty of having and utilising unhealthy coping mechanisms. Growing up undiagnosed Autistic is most likely the cause of that, and only after diagnosis did, I learn to switch to some healthy coping mechanisms. Well, I actually had to take several months off work last year becauseContinue reading “How Not To Cope.”

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”

Battling Burnout

Autistic burnout is when you’ve pushed yourself too hard for too long, and your brain and body just can’t take it anymore. It’s like trying to move through quicksand, where every step forward is a struggle and eventually, you’re too exhausted to go on. It’s not just from being Autistic – it can happen toContinue reading “Battling Burnout”

Pacing & Routines

So it’s 6am on a Monday, and I’m sitting up in bed feeling like I’ve been hit by a bus. I have a condition called POTS (for those of your not familiar with POTS here is a lovely list of symptoms from POTSUK) and that causes me a lot of issues day to day, startingContinue reading “Pacing & Routines”