Embracing Our Autistic Selves
A Gathering for Those Ready to Breathe Again
There’s something quietly radical about an Autistic person stepping into a space where being Autistic isn’t an obstacle to manage, but a way of being to honour. Most of us grow up folded into shapes that weren’t made for us; pressed into neuronormative moulds until even our bones forget what comfort feels like.
My upcoming course, Embracing Our Autistic Selves, is a chance to unfurl.
It’s not a webinar where you sit, mute and passive, absorbing some clinical lecture about yourself as if you’re an interesting problem. It’s a gathering of neurokin. A space where your stims are welcome, your wonky camera angles are fine, and your need to listen with your eyes closed is treated as ordinary.
This session is about what it actually means to live Autistically in a world built for a different neurocognitive style. Not romanticised. Not pathologised. Just honest. Grounded in community knowledge, lived experience, monotropism, neuroqueer thinking, and that deeply human longing to feel at home in our own minds.
We’ll explore the tender work of self-recognition:
Peeling back neuronormative expectations
Understanding why we respond to the world the way we do
Finding the places where our lives strain against systems never designed for us
Reconnecting to the joy, intensity, and wonder of our Autistic ways of being
We’ll talk about the hard bits, too. Burnout. Fragmented identities. The ache of trying to live authentically in environments that demand performance. But we’ll talk about them from inside the community, not from the outside looking in.
This event isn’t about “fixing” anything. It’s about returning. Reclaiming. Coming back to ourselves with curiosity, compassion, and that glimmer of recognition that says “you were never the problem”.
Whether you’re newly exploring your identity, deepening an existing understanding, or just craving a space where your Autistic self doesn’t feel out of place, you’re welcome here. Completely.
Take a moment. Check in with your bodymind. If something in you is quietly saying yes; follow it.
This course will take the form of guided discussions where we will walk a path of exploration and rediscovery to find a positive sense of who we are, not in spite of being Autistic, but aided by it.
Spaces like this ripple outward. They soften lives, build community, and remind us that our ways of being are not deficits.