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BLOG POST Where Distress Really Lives
There’s a question I’ve been asking for years, and I want to ask it here before I tell you anything about conference tickets or timings: Who taught you that your distress was your fault? Because someone did. Maybe it was a clinician who told you your anxiety was a “feature of your autism”, or a […] The post Your…
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There’s a question I’ve been asking for years, and I want to ask it here before I tell you anything about conference tickets or timings: Who taught you that your distress was your fault? Because…
Autistic Mental Health Conference 2026: Ecosystemic Causes of Mental Health Issues
David Gray-Hammond explores his concept of the ecosystemic model of distress and how it explains mental health problems in Autistic people. David will be presenting on this topic with Tanya Adkin at…