Redefining resilience

Redefining resilience

Author: Justine Rutherford Gaubert Calm swans are great, but we need flashes of creative kingfishers in our workforces too. Will a new definition of ‘resilience’ help us attract more neurodiversity? Resilience is a term that I’d always flinched at and felt strangely...
Dyslexic and Loving Words

Dyslexic and Loving Words

Dyslexic and Loving Words asks the question – “What if you’re dyslexic but you love to write or use words?” Through interviews with seven successful dyslexic wordsmiths, the film highlights how it’s possible to overcome dyslexic issues,...
Me- Autistic? As If…

Me- Autistic? As If…

The wonderful Kate Fox – stand-up poet, teacher, performer, wordsmith and social commentator (with a particular interest in Northernness) – has kindly given us permission to repost this wonderful piece she wrote –  Me- Autistic? As If… following her recent...
Get a life get a label

Get a life get a label

Why go for an Asperger diagnosis when you’re aged 46 (and three quarters)?  I was 40 when my addiction to collecting labels began in earnest. Not the jam pot kind; more of the ‘maybe-there’s-actually-a-reason-why-I-find life-so-overwhelming’ kind....