Pebble Autism
@pebbleautism.bsky.social
A friendly and accessible autism assessment and identification service for all ages. Helping you find joy in your uniqueness www.pebbleautism.co.uk
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Chris and Sue are the humans behind Pebble Autism. We like to keep things small and friendly. If you’d like to know more about what we do please check out our website www.pebbleautism.co.uk or email us at hello@pebbleautism.co.uk
This will be excellent!
Sharing an upcoming publication with the chapter I co-authored with @fergus.oolong.co.uk
Embracing Monotropism and Flow
It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School
Ed. Rachael Davis @claruineill.bsky.social & @suereviews.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/It-Takes-All...
Embracing Monotropism and Flow
It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School
Ed. Rachael Davis @claruineill.bsky.social & @suereviews.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/It-Takes-All...
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This will be excellent!
Sue was thrilled to be invited to speak at this event today in which neurodiversity-affirming speech & language therapists shared best practice. Sue spoke about how Pebble strives to provide clients with reports that reflect them and their experiences without pathologising them.
November 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Sue was thrilled to be invited to speak at this event today in which neurodiversity-affirming speech & language therapists shared best practice. Sue spoke about how Pebble strives to provide clients with reports that reflect them and their experiences without pathologising them.
Ooh!!
Just discovered this neurodivergent bookshop - very cool!
And not just because it has our forthcoming book on neurodiversity-affirmative classrooms on their front page...
@drrachaeldavis.bsky.social @claruineill.bsky.social
makessensetome.co.uk
And not just because it has our forthcoming book on neurodiversity-affirmative classrooms on their front page...
@drrachaeldavis.bsky.social @claruineill.bsky.social
makessensetome.co.uk
MAKES SENSE TO ME | The Neurodivergent Bookshop
Discover the world’s first neurodiversity-specialist bookshop! This disabled-led ND community offers books on ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Tourette’s & Mental Health. Resources for neurodiversity at work, ...
makessensetome.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Ooh!!
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There's still time to register for next Thursday's FREE online event: Autism and maternity: information for parents and supporters (6-7.30pm UK time).
I'll be joined by 3 brilliant Autistic midwives: Karen Henry, Rebecca Warboys & Diane Fox.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autism-and...
I'll be joined by 3 brilliant Autistic midwives: Karen Henry, Rebecca Warboys & Diane Fox.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autism-and...
Autism and maternity: information for parents and supporters
Join for the online launch Dr Aimee Grant’s Autism-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy – an inclusive resource for parents and professionals alike.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
There's still time to register for next Thursday's FREE online event: Autism and maternity: information for parents and supporters (6-7.30pm UK time).
I'll be joined by 3 brilliant Autistic midwives: Karen Henry, Rebecca Warboys & Diane Fox.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autism-and...
I'll be joined by 3 brilliant Autistic midwives: Karen Henry, Rebecca Warboys & Diane Fox.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autism-and...
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It is 2025 - we really shouldn't need a petition for this!
Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day.
Do not lock toilets so that they aren’t accessible during certain times of the day.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day.
Do not lock toilets so that they aren’t accessible during certain times of the day.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day
Make it mandatory for schools to allow students to go to the toilet at all times throughout the school day when they need to and do not lock toilets so that they aren’t accessible during certain times...
petition.parliament.uk
November 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It is 2025 - we really shouldn't need a petition for this!
Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day.
Do not lock toilets so that they aren’t accessible during certain times of the day.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Require schools to let children use the toilet at all times in the school day.
Do not lock toilets so that they aren’t accessible during certain times of the day.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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New publication on Autistic adults’ experiences of attending live music! I am really proud of this study! You can read it for free here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
November 5, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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We are a client-led, neurodiversity-affirming service. We never have and never will use AI in any form to carry out or write up our assessments. We are just two humans, meeting our clients as humans and providing a very human service!
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
We are a client-led, neurodiversity-affirming service. We never have and never will use AI in any form to carry out or write up our assessments. We are just two humans, meeting our clients as humans and providing a very human service!
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🎙️ On the next episode of Black Girl Diagnosed — our host is riding solo, opening up about her journey as a Black autistic woman. From misdiagnosis to self-acceptance, she’s sharing the truth, the struggle & the triumph. 🩷🤍
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🎙️ On the next episode of Black Girl Diagnosed — our host is riding solo, opening up about her journey as a Black autistic woman. From misdiagnosis to self-acceptance, she’s sharing the truth, the struggle & the triumph. 🩷🤍
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
@jgjanegreenmbe.bsky.social fabulous talk this morning. A really useful reframing of how the common signs of ‘anxiety’ when a child or young person is struggling with school can actually be signs of a connective tissue disorder and/or living with chronic pain
November 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
@jgjanegreenmbe.bsky.social fabulous talk this morning. A really useful reframing of how the common signs of ‘anxiety’ when a child or young person is struggling with school can actually be signs of a connective tissue disorder and/or living with chronic pain
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Some traits of autism in Black women are often overlooked. Let’s talk about hyper-vigilance a survival skill that can mask autistic traits, as Black autistic women this just adds another layer to our unique experiences as autistic individuals 🌻✨
( a thread)
( a thread)
October 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Some traits of autism in Black women are often overlooked. Let’s talk about hyper-vigilance a survival skill that can mask autistic traits, as Black autistic women this just adds another layer to our unique experiences as autistic individuals 🌻✨
( a thread)
( a thread)
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Sharing:
The Autistic Substance Use Network (ASUN) was created in response to the emerging research highlighting that substance use is an intersection of concern for Autistic people.
Find out more:
autsunorg.wordpress.com
The Autistic Substance Use Network (ASUN) was created in response to the emerging research highlighting that substance use is an intersection of concern for Autistic people.
Find out more:
autsunorg.wordpress.com
Autistic Substance Use Network
A home for research into Autistic substance use
autsunorg.wordpress.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Sharing:
The Autistic Substance Use Network (ASUN) was created in response to the emerging research highlighting that substance use is an intersection of concern for Autistic people.
Find out more:
autsunorg.wordpress.com
The Autistic Substance Use Network (ASUN) was created in response to the emerging research highlighting that substance use is an intersection of concern for Autistic people.
Find out more:
autsunorg.wordpress.com
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sounds like such a trope but after all I've seen working with "severe & persistent mental illness," truly the most violent & tragic stories, it makes me want to grab some people's faces in my hands & urgently whisper to them:
this doesn't matter. so little of this matters.
take care of each other
this doesn't matter. so little of this matters.
take care of each other
October 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
sounds like such a trope but after all I've seen working with "severe & persistent mental illness," truly the most violent & tragic stories, it makes me want to grab some people's faces in my hands & urgently whisper to them:
this doesn't matter. so little of this matters.
take care of each other
this doesn't matter. so little of this matters.
take care of each other
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Last chance to get tickets! Seed Talks presents The ADHD & Women Summit - London
With our chair Jane Greenmbe SedsConnective and many others on November 1st.
Jane will be speaking on body brains burnout - Your Body is Talking But Can You Hear It?
Grab yours here: ow.ly/MgLx50XaFkQ
With our chair Jane Greenmbe SedsConnective and many others on November 1st.
Jane will be speaking on body brains burnout - Your Body is Talking But Can You Hear It?
Grab yours here: ow.ly/MgLx50XaFkQ
October 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Last chance to get tickets! Seed Talks presents The ADHD & Women Summit - London
With our chair Jane Greenmbe SedsConnective and many others on November 1st.
Jane will be speaking on body brains burnout - Your Body is Talking But Can You Hear It?
Grab yours here: ow.ly/MgLx50XaFkQ
With our chair Jane Greenmbe SedsConnective and many others on November 1st.
Jane will be speaking on body brains burnout - Your Body is Talking But Can You Hear It?
Grab yours here: ow.ly/MgLx50XaFkQ
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Being both Black and autistic means living at the intersection of two misunderstood identities 😰
Listen when we speak. Believe us when we share 🌻
Our stories deserve to be heard without filters or doubt 👍🏽
Listen when we speak. Believe us when we share 🌻
Our stories deserve to be heard without filters or doubt 👍🏽
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Being both Black and autistic means living at the intersection of two misunderstood identities 😰
Listen when we speak. Believe us when we share 🌻
Our stories deserve to be heard without filters or doubt 👍🏽
Listen when we speak. Believe us when we share 🌻
Our stories deserve to be heard without filters or doubt 👍🏽
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#CRAEresearchSummaries
‘It just feels unnatural being here’: Autistic secondary school students’ experiences of sensory sensitivities in the school environment
‘It just feels unnatural being here’: Autistic secondary school students’ experiences of sensory sensitivities in the school environment
‘It just feels unnatural being here’: Autistic secondary school students’ experiences of sensory sensitivities in the school environment
While prior research has examined the sensory impact of school environments, until now few studies have directly considered autistic students’ own perspectives on how sensory differences affe…
crae.ioe.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
#CRAEresearchSummaries
‘It just feels unnatural being here’: Autistic secondary school students’ experiences of sensory sensitivities in the school environment
‘It just feels unnatural being here’: Autistic secondary school students’ experiences of sensory sensitivities in the school environment
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Many of our members & followers will identify with this - "It turned out I wasn’t the only one who felt like small talk was an awkward and forced ritual"
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
A moment that changed me: I gave up small talk for a month – and the world came alive
I was fed up with discussing the weather, so I started to ask unexpected questions. The conversations that resulted were revelatory
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Many of our members & followers will identify with this - "It turned out I wasn’t the only one who felt like small talk was an awkward and forced ritual"
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Here are freely available recordings of speeches from the recent Autism Europe Congress which focused on quality of life for autistic people. Topics include physical & mental health, learning, employment, overlapping neurodivergence and advancing autistic rights www.autismeurope.org/what-we-do/i...
14th Autism-Europe International Congress, Dublin, Ireland, 2025 – Autism Europe
www.autismeurope.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Here are freely available recordings of speeches from the recent Autism Europe Congress which focused on quality of life for autistic people. Topics include physical & mental health, learning, employment, overlapping neurodivergence and advancing autistic rights www.autismeurope.org/what-we-do/i...
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"The way we autistics process is often on hyperdrive. The activities that are like strolling for many allistic people are like sprinting for us. We need rest, more frequently and in greater durations than non-autistic people." @mx-joyner.bsky.social, at TPGA:
tinyurl.com/WeGetTired #neurodiversity
tinyurl.com/WeGetTired #neurodiversity
October 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"The way we autistics process is often on hyperdrive. The activities that are like strolling for many allistic people are like sprinting for us. We need rest, more frequently and in greater durations than non-autistic people." @mx-joyner.bsky.social, at TPGA:
tinyurl.com/WeGetTired #neurodiversity
tinyurl.com/WeGetTired #neurodiversity
This is a BRILLIANT idea!! The wonderful folks running GROVE are setting up virtual interest groups in which children & young people can connect with likeminded people. Choose from a huge list of options or make a new request 🎸🐎⚽️♟️🧁🧶🐞🐬🌻🪐🥋🏊🏼🩰🥁🎮🏎️✈️🗺️📸🧪🪄📚
New online groups for Autistic young people, by Autistic adults - a massive list of things we can offer with expressions of interest being taken so we can create groups around what young people want: www.gr0ve.org/online-groups/
Online Groups for Autistic Young People
Safe, affirming, online groups for Autistic young people to connect, make friends and have fun.
www.gr0ve.org
October 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This is a BRILLIANT idea!! The wonderful folks running GROVE are setting up virtual interest groups in which children & young people can connect with likeminded people. Choose from a huge list of options or make a new request 🎸🐎⚽️♟️🧁🧶🐞🐬🌻🪐🥋🏊🏼🩰🥁🎮🏎️✈️🗺️📸🧪🪄📚
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Over 55 and recently discovered you’re Autistic? 🌿
Join our 6-week Discovery Programme starting Jan 20 2026 — a supportive space to explore your identity in a neuro-affirming space
🇮🇪 Free fully funded for Irish citizens | 🌍 Sliding-scale for international
👉 www.thrivingautistic.org/discovery-pr...
Join our 6-week Discovery Programme starting Jan 20 2026 — a supportive space to explore your identity in a neuro-affirming space
🇮🇪 Free fully funded for Irish citizens | 🌍 Sliding-scale for international
👉 www.thrivingautistic.org/discovery-pr...
Discovery Programme: Welcome to Your Autistic Self
Have you recently discovered that you’re Autistic? Would you like to learn more about your neurotype and discuss what it means for you in a supportive group with other newly identified Autistic adults...
www.thrivingautistic.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Over 55 and recently discovered you’re Autistic? 🌿
Join our 6-week Discovery Programme starting Jan 20 2026 — a supportive space to explore your identity in a neuro-affirming space
🇮🇪 Free fully funded for Irish citizens | 🌍 Sliding-scale for international
👉 www.thrivingautistic.org/discovery-pr...
Join our 6-week Discovery Programme starting Jan 20 2026 — a supportive space to explore your identity in a neuro-affirming space
🇮🇪 Free fully funded for Irish citizens | 🌍 Sliding-scale for international
👉 www.thrivingautistic.org/discovery-pr...
We’ve just learnt that #mushroommonday is a thing. No idea what these are but they’re beauties! 🍄 🍄🟫 (we didn’t nibble the red one)
October 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We’ve just learnt that #mushroommonday is a thing. No idea what these are but they’re beauties! 🍄 🍄🟫 (we didn’t nibble the red one)
It can be hard after a life of people pleasing & masking to know when you are being your authentic self. It may be helpful to start by learning what makes you truly feel comfortable & doing the things, being with the people and in the places where you feel that
Inspired by @jodieclarke.bsky.social
Inspired by @jodieclarke.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It can be hard after a life of people pleasing & masking to know when you are being your authentic self. It may be helpful to start by learning what makes you truly feel comfortable & doing the things, being with the people and in the places where you feel that
Inspired by @jodieclarke.bsky.social
Inspired by @jodieclarke.bsky.social
@jodieclarke.bsky.social at the Nurturing Neurodivergence Conference talking about ‘neurodivergent re-wilding’. Thinking about the times when you were most yourself & felt most calm/safe in the past can be so helpful for high masking adults to unpick what they really need in future 👌 🧸 🌳 🎵 🎮📚
October 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
@jodieclarke.bsky.social at the Nurturing Neurodivergence Conference talking about ‘neurodivergent re-wilding’. Thinking about the times when you were most yourself & felt most calm/safe in the past can be so helpful for high masking adults to unpick what they really need in future 👌 🧸 🌳 🎵 🎮📚
Still thinking about the huge list of stigmatising labels that are often applied to autistic children & YP that @kieranrose.bsky.social shared this morning at the Nurturing ND conf. Now @jodieclarke.bsky.social talking about the huge shame carried by autistic kids. Is it any wonder?
October 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Still thinking about the huge list of stigmatising labels that are often applied to autistic children & YP that @kieranrose.bsky.social shared this morning at the Nurturing ND conf. Now @jodieclarke.bsky.social talking about the huge shame carried by autistic kids. Is it any wonder?