Kate Smith

Deputy Head of a maintained nursery school, Early Years MA, Early Years associate lecturer, teacher, mum to two brilliant human children and one cat.

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@FelicityNorton6 Let me know if you ever do, please! X

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@FelicityNorton6 are pen green going to facilitate attachment awareness training again? Best training I ever did - I want to put more people on it!!

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@Dmdav1 Exactly. My son moves across all 3 depending on his environment and external factors.

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TW - discriminatory image

My son wasn’t diagnosed with a “level” of autism (thank goodness) but out of curiosity I did some searching. I found this: Image shows “level 1” a child with a disgruntled expression, folding her arms.

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@KatharineES Absolutely!!

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Yet when you are autistic it’s all “because of the autism”.

Autistic people are bloody brilliant, varied, expressive, deeply feeling and thinking individuals, just as much as anyone else. Let’s please stop representing them as flat one dimensional beings.

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He also talks our bloody ears off about his special interests because he loves us and that’s his love language. We know that NT people all have different moods and different love languages…

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@DanWuori Can you share the research please? I’d like to read this

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@aut_rachel You have to keep us posted when all your kitchen drawers start being left often!

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@jo3grace Oh man. 💚

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@aut_rachel Woah!!

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@lindseyfrostie @SheringhamNurs1 @juliangrenier Congratulations!!

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Or therapy/counselling? He says he can only talk about it for 10 minutes and he’s ok with it being me or his dad he talks to. But what else can we say that will help him understand/process/not fear this?

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#ActuallyAutistic people of Twitter - I need your advice. My son is very anxious about death, especially what it feels like to be dead. His sister is disabled and this all stems from when she first got sick 2 years ago. He also had a grandparent die when he was 3…

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However he is now fixated on the “nothingness” of it. He says he thinks about it every day. What should I do? He’s very scientifically minded - is there a better explanation or video I could show him?