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Prompts for work and clinic
Every sheet that has somewhere to write now has a companion prompt — twelve of sixteen, up from ten. The four without one argue a position with no decision-maker at the other end. Sensory Access at…
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Tools for Speaking Up
Ready-to-use prompts, broadsides and explainers to help you ask for what you need at school, work and the clinic.
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Asks sections, published
All ten school sheets now say what to ask for. Five gained a "What to Ask For in the Room" section — Behaviorism, Alternatives to ABA, ABA Tactics, Positive Greetings at the Door, and Hoodie — and…
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Companion prompts
A prompt to go with the sheet. Four Why Sheets now carry a companion prompt: plain text you copy into whatever AI assistant you already use, which asks you what happened — your child's name, their…
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The Why Sheet Press
The first release. Fourteen Why Sheets and nine broadsides, published as a print-first library at whysheet.press, generated from the Markdown in this repository. The press. Every sheet gets a page…
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The Demand Avoidance broadside
A twelfth broadside, in blue and violet. Demand Avoidance compresses the Why Sheet released the same day onto one sheet, printed both sides, for carrying into a meeting rather than reading on a…
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AAC Is Not a Last Resort
A seventeenth Why Sheet, logged here late. AAC Is Not a Last Resort argues that a robust communication system is a right rather than a reward for proving you deserve one, and that AAC does not delay…
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AD | Owning your data: make the invisible visible | NeuroHub x PhiliaSense
AD | This video contains an affiliate link. NeuroHub earns a small commission if you buy through it. "You're not asking to be believed. You're showing what your last month actually looked like." On…
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A Third Place Needs a Cave: Cavendish Space as Third Place
Our glossary asks a question we keep coming back to: If you’re not at home and you’re not at work or school but you are at a place that provides community without being required to buy stuff, where…
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Our right to actually exist is (still) up for vote
Content note: One paragraph has a blunt discussion of current events. If you don’t want to read it, I’ve marked it so you can skip. This post is addressed to my subscribers and followers, the people…
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Justice for Dominic: Protest at Autism’s Got Talent | Baston House School
Full documentsry By Georgia De Gidlow here https://youtu.be/vt1Q2GvjHlc?si=YyijsAsMiwtRnSDH Content note: this video includes descriptions of alleged child abuse, including sexual abuse. On Saturday…
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The Ultimate Collection of Neuroaffirming Resources
Access now Exclusively available until November 18th! Featuring more than 50 neuroaffirming resources from dozens of advocates and practitioners, this is a truly unmissable collaboration offering…
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It’s Not an Epidemic. It’s Endemic.
Content Note: This essay discusses sexual assault on college campuses and in the military, including specific cases and how institutions responded to them. It names what happened without graphic…
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Masking, Internalised Ableism and Imposter Syndrome: What We Do to Survive, and What We Are Taught to Believe
Masking is what we do to survive. Internalised ableism is what we are taught to believe. Imposter syndrome asks whether we belong. Helen Edgar gently untangles all three.
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🍁 Neurodiversity Newsletter October Edition
Welcome to October’s Neurodiversity Newsletter October is both AAC Awareness Month and ADHD Awareness Month, designed to dispel myths and spread understanding. Augmentative and alternative…
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#PutAFenceRoundIt
Please support this campaign to safeguard young children with Special Educational Needs in the UK. Sign The Petition…
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Demand Avoidance
An eighteenth Why Sheet, for the meeting where a child has been called defiant. Demand Avoidance is for the room where a child's inability to meet demands has been filed as a choice, and the plan on…
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Social cards
Every page now has a card. Share a Why Sheet into Discord, Bluesky or Slack and the link arrives with the sheet's title and the moment you reach for it, set in the site's own type on white — a…
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A second tool: draw your own map
Draw a map is new, and version one has not gone anywhere. They ask different questions. The marking tool asks where you are on Helen's map; the new one hands over blank ground and a tray of shapes…
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Drink Review: McGuigan Zero Alcohol-Free Shiraz
There is a particular kind of Friday evening that asks for a glass of red. Not a celebration, not an occasion; just the slow exhale at the end of a working week, the moment where you sit down and…
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⛱️ Neurodiversity Newsletter September Edition
Welcome to September’s Neurodiversity Newsletter August was a truly horrific month for political and media attacks on Neurodivergent people. This was most tragically seen in the racist, classist,…
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Why PCIT is Problematic
Let's start with what PCIT actually trains a parent to do, because the marketing language obscures it. Parent-Child Interaction Therapy asks caregivers to lavish praise and attention on a narrow band…
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The Neurodivergent Community Standing in Solidarity Against Racism and Ableism
Solidarity Against Racism & Ableism in the Autistic & Neurodivergent Community
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The “Overdiagnosis” Review: What It Actually Means for Autistic People and Their Families
If you are Autistic, waiting for an assessment, or supporting an Autistic child, you have probably seen the headlines. People “incentivised” to get diagnoses, an overdiagnosis crisis, a government…
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Spotlight on Semi-Speaking as a Communication Identity with Speech & Language Therapists Harriet Richardson (Hat) and Kim Mears
Hat/Harriet Richardson is a white, semi-speaking, multiply neurodivergent Speech Pathologist, Neurodevelopmental Practitioner and writer. She runs the social media account @hat.talks.uk. Kim Mears is…