Pete Wharmby

You very often get autistic children saying it’s too busy, or too noisy, or too hot or cold. And we’ll look round and think, no it’s not! But they are speaking their truth. It’s very real for them. And we need to support them with that. Watch our new video with @petewharmby.com:

6 days to publication. If you want to know why schools are seemingly inaccessible to autistic children, and what we can do about it, then this is the book for you. I wrote it for parents, teachers, civil servants and everyone who is in any way involved in the education of our children.

Education needs to change.... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent

Behaviorism is dead. Despite that, behaviorism won. And neurodivergent and disabled students lost. Our Education Access page traces how we got here — and what it costs. stimpunks.org/access/educa...

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 14. ‘Mam Tor’ Artist: SR Badmin

James Downie. Back later with more. Helen. 🤶🎄

ELECTRIC SKY: Power lines marching across the fields and into the morning fog.

It’s happening! The Autistic burnout network conference May 17th 2025 Registration at www.autisticadvocate.co.uk/autistic-burnout-network

The relentless gaslighting of autistic experience

I see things like this and I can't help but think that giftedness was a nice way to tell wealthy American parents that their kids were autistic

My favourite Gary Larson panel ever.

There's still time to register for @petewharmby.com's talk this Thursday evening from 7-8.30pm. Pete will be talking about Making an Autistic Living. As always, the talk is free and everyone is welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-an-...

A reminder that the whole autism vaccine myth depends heavily on the fact people would rather their kids died than be autistic.

You can't get micro-machines any more so how the hell am I supposed to protect my home from burglars

Such a sad loss, last year 😔 This one, definitely among my favourite picks from the great man’s canon 😍 Night and Rooftops by Harold Riley (1934 - 2023) #Art

Ordsall Lane, Salford by Steven Scholes (b.1952) #Art

Seeing a lot of standing stones amongst the herons, pizzas and autism on my feed. Now I'm hoping for forlorn, abandoned industrial architecture. More forlorn, industrial architecture please Bluesky

There's not enough coffee in the world to make December worthwhile

I'm sorry but the Japanese cover of my book Untypical is the best cover I've ever seen.

Good luck everyone in the South West tonight and tomorrow. Looks like it's going to be rather windy.

🚨🚨🚨 Enormous news: the Constitutional Court of Romania has unanimously decided to cancel the presidential elections, G4 Media reports. The electoral process for the election of the Romanian president has to be re-run in its entirety, with the government setting a new date.

My feed is packed with herons and pizzas and I'm not sure why. Either the algorithm knows something I don't, or everyone is taking photos of a presumed heron infestation and then celebrating with a margarita

I believe most people would have a picture of a person (probably a child; probably male) in meltdown, or stimming to calm, or holding hands over their ears. Rather than, say, a contented autistic person deep in hyperfocus having a great time. This tells us a lot about society in general, I think.

Writers have been using neurodivergent archetypes in film, TV and literature for centuries. The world has always been aware of us, but either put us on an impossible pedestal or (more commonly) laughed at us.

What's that you say? More Thomas neurodiversity memes? Sure, I have a tonne....

My mum and dad are getting me Luigi's Mansion 3 for Christmas. I'm 12.

You need my neurodivergent Thomas memes in your life, Bluesky.

Getting dopamine rewards for completing things *is* why humans are motivated to do anything at the most basic level. If that reward isn't there, and it often isn't if you're ADHD, then motivation ceases to even be a thing, biologically. No wonder I can't even put the kettle on.

💜🌟🌈 My neuro-affirming starter pack includes a collection of wonderful individuals and organizations dedicated to supporting autistic individuals and effecting positive change. Please follow and share. 💜🌟🌈 go.bsky.app/9N5UEUC

Oops my hyperfocus on Mt St Helens is back everyone

Hello new followers. I'm an autistic ADHD writer and public speaker who posts often about neurodiversity.

New lego minifigures representing autistic people are on the way. Surprised by this as all my minifigures are already autistic

Telling autistic kids that they play 'wrong' is just so cruel and unnecessary.

Quite depressed by having flu and a chest infection and having to let folk down. Bleurgh.

Me, so long as I never, ever interact with anything or anyone at any point

If people had carried on buying the Dreamcast everything would have ended up better

Me thinking about the 90s

I have a fever, so now my ADHD busy brain feels even busier. I don't think there'll be any sleep tonight. Urgh urgh and urgh.