April 2023 – Page 2 – Melanie Magowan

Autism awareness month: 11 April

Not all autistic people are geniuses. Equally not all geniuses are autistic.

Let’s talk tricky stuff… relationships & autism.

⭐️ Autistic people don’t just date other autistic people.. quite often the opposite

Mind blindness

Autistic people often have difficulty appropriately responding to others’ emotional expressions. This is “mind-blindness”.

Let’s talk about food. This is a typical autism quirk but very often it’s to do with textures and mixtures.

Let’s talk about eye contact. This is the thing that I have seen teachers most frequently make a mistake with.