Hannah Hill

#AutismArtOfThePossible

Agenda for today’s AT Autism’s conference “Autism: The art of the possible”.

Excited @at-autism.bsky.social

An unclaimed #buyastrangerabook offer!

@kerankaur77.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a novel up to £20!

Any novel at all, not just what's on my website.

It's #buyastrangerabook day, so if there's something in particular you'd like, just get in touch.

UK only

This #buyastrangerabook offer from @catphoto.bsky.social keeps on rolling.

No takers last week.
No takers so far this week.

A free book to anyone who works in the service industry etc, up to £20.

Check the offer out and if you'd like a book, do get in touch.

UK only

On the 25th October 2018, from my hospital bed, I began to write. 1/5

Front cover image of the book To Exist As I Am by Grace Spence Green. It shows a doctor wearing dark pink scrubs with a stethoscope around her neck, sitting in a wheelchair facing forwards. Her dark brown hair is just visible on her shoulders but her head is out of shot of the photo.

Just finished listening to #ToExistAsIAm by @gracespencegreen.bsky.social Brilliant writing and I always love it when audiobooks are narrated so authentically by the author.

AFTERWORD DoEs I finished this book while attending Abertoir: The International Horror Festival of Wales. I added my final adjective and then celebrated by attending a screening of Zombi with live accompaniment by the composer Fabio Frizzi. Love flowed in between the dismemberments and eye-gouging. The union of the frequently neurodivergent horror fans seemed even more empowering than usual, as the festival was one week after Trump's second presidential victory. The absurdity of zombies was not as absurd as the world itself. I know that many people, including possibly you, have been hit hard by what appears to be a rubber stamp for regression, for a dismissal of anyone who is seen not to be 'normal enough'. Even though weird' was used by the Democrat campaign to try to insult the Republicans, we know that those who the mainstream most often smears as weird' will suffer more under the new admin-istration. Across issues of ethnicity, gender and neurodivergence, existential despair has been evident. I write this just to remind you that there are many allies ready to support and fight for you and those you love. And for all those who like to sneer at anything deemed as woke', keep the actor Kathy Burke's words in mind: 'They're calling you "woke" if you call out 247

Spechem Minds Make mare NORMALLY WEIRD AND WEIRDLY NORMAL bad things, basically. If you're not racist, you're woke. If you're not homophobic, oh, you're woke. Be woke, kids. Be woke. Be wide awake and fucking call it out?' Or, as she put even more succinctly: T love being woke, it's much better than being an ignorant fucking twat? Know that there are many people in the world who want more light, more acceptance, more joy and more inclusion for everyone. While writing this book, I gained a new habit. I have been energetically writing poetry. It is a good hobby for ADHD people. You see something exciting, your mind fizzes, words pour out, there is just time to finish the poem before your mind gets distracted by a new fascination. One morning, returning from a trip to Slovakia, I was having a hasty* back-and-forth of direct messages with the librarian and author Stuart Hennigan. He mentioned the 'dark angels' that haunt so many of us. This was my reaction. Finally I clipped the wings of the dark angels That had fluttered for so long like moths In the last lone light of night Once it was black They were there. Invisible But ever-present They'd beat their wings against the cooling bulb. Only I could hear the flapping, But I'd deny there was a sound For fear of showing weakness. 248

ach want more r everyone. been ener- ng exciting, o finish the nation. One ing a hasty and author it haunt so AFTERWORD then, one day Now in middle age I found the way To quieten down their relentlessness. I exposed them By speaking up aloud. Uncowed. Not unafraid But less afraid. Not bold But bolder: Speaking out They tumbled and twirled like maple seeds Spinning to the woodland floor. Not banished Or vanished. But unfed Underfoot And famished. So nearly vanquished. They might still flutter at my heels, But they can't carry me away Not now. To all of you, however your minds may fizz and bubble, I wish you a life unmasked, full of kindness, curiosity and adventure. Let us fight the dark angels together. Care and compassion are seen as weakness, yet our bullying leades always expect to be treated wilt a reverence and respect they would not otte to anyone else

The Afterword of Normally Weird including horror movies and dark angels uk.bookshop.org/p/books/norm... #normallyweird

Well that was awesome, thanks. Teen is ready to devour the signed books. If you haven’t heard @robinince.bsky.social talking about his new book (and lots of other stuff) yet, get yourselves a ticket.

Well that’s my Sunday afternoon plans sorted then 📚

Fantastic podcast

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Collection of small spring nature finds

Collection of spring nature finds in antique typesetter's tray

Collection of finds from Old Hunstanton beach made in 2019

Collection of small autumnal finds

My new workshop:small museums for mental health, is now live.
I'll teach you how creating small museums alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health & we'll make small museums together
24 May,zoom, recording available afterwards
Open to anyone,anywhere
workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

Inking…

Life is Too Short for Someone Else’s Shame “Life is Too Short for Someone Else’s Shame”: Why I Call Myself a Disabled Writer Amanda Leduc   From 2008 – 2010, I lived for a time in Edinburgh, Scotland. One of the jobs I had while there …

“I call myself disabled so that others with disabilities across a wide spectrum might one day feel comfortable doing the same.
Because life is, indeed, too short for someone else’s shame.”
@amandaleduc.bsky.social
disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/09/16/l...

Familiar..

An x-ray of a penguin showing the knees much higher up on the body than one would think.

Happy Friday! It's #WorldPenguinDay so I thought I'd remind you that penguins do have knees, they just aren't where you think they should be.

A sketch of a standing Humboldt penguin ...mostly black and white with pink around the eyes

Happy #WorldPenguinDay 🐧
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Teasels in the foreground, which are brown and bristly, not in flower yet. Behind them is a green meadow and the sky is bright blue with some fluffy clouds.

Lovely morning dog walk to the sound of skylarks

New UK Centre hopes to change public attitudes towards grief Grief affects everyone but is still very much a taboo subject in the UK. A new Centre - the first of its kind in the UK - hopes to shift public attitudes towards grief and create communities that are ...

New #grief research centre - the first of its kind in the UK - launched today.

The Centre, led by @goodgrieffest.bsky.social founders @lucyselman.bsky.social & @leseldawson.bsky.social, hopes to change public attitudes towards grief & improve community support for the bereaved.

bit.ly/42YCRVi

Sick and despicable

Treating autism as shameful or blaming environmental factors is a step back to the days when scientists blamed unloving mothers or vaccines. It focuses on blame rather than supports. Focusing on the causes takes away money from lifespan issues and supports and services.

I can’t pick just one.
When the Dust Settles, Strong Female Character, Own Your Period, Unheard, Girl Unmasked, The Panopticon, lots more..

A little crochet hippo in the palm of my hand.

Hippo #crochet

Parkrun is the most inclusive group physical activity I can think of. And the only physical activity my non-binary teen feels comfortable doing. Thank you #parkrun for allowing people of all genders to be who they are at your events 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

They're going after Parkrun again, you know, that event where lots of people of all ages, abilities and genders run around a local park and it not, in any form, a race?

Beautiful bluebells and birdsong

A fluffy brown dog looking up at the camera licking his lips. He has those sort of eyes that try to tell you he’s never been fed.

I think Humphrey enjoyed his share of blueberry & yoghurt pancake for breakfast

Machine embroidered artwork by Alison Holt, UK textile artist #WomensArt #Spring

An illustrator's happy accident: "Spilled Ink Kittens" by Japanese artist Avagadoo
#caturday #art #illustration

Understanding the needs of the homelessness workforce in supporting autistic people experiencing homelessness | Homeless Link David Bryceland, Project Officer within Transformation Partners in Health and Care, shares the results from their survey which explored the needs of the homelessness workforce in supporting autis

Very thankful that the overrepresentation of #autism people (up to 10X more)in #homeless population is studied. It has been my experience, working with homeless population for more than 2 decades. Hopefully more reseach will be done along with solutions presented www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/...