Autistic culture is not the first thing we’re led to learn about when we discover our autistic identities.

Usually we start with assessment which focuses on a deficit discourse, then we’re told about the importance of early intervention, then we receive referrals to allied health service providers, then we join Facebook support groups, then we communicate with school and try and land on realistic learning goals, then we go through the deficit discourse again with the NDIS, then in our exhaustion we finally sit with how it all feels and try to make sense of why it just doesn’t quite all feel right.

And it rarely feels right.

If we are autistic, if our children are autistic, we just KNOW that this scenario is missing something vital, well before we know what that something is.

Let’s talk about autistic culture. This is the foundation, the truth and the missing education that our ‘welcome to autism’ experiences should be built on.

Autistic culture will allow you to live more easily.

Autistic culture will validate and support your needs.

Autistic culture will give you the context to live an actualised life.

Autistic culture (in the western world) has been missing from our lives for generations, and instead has been thought of as ‘what we shouldn’t be doing’ and therapy has been given to us to help us figure out and practice ‘what we should be doing’.

But if we don’t learn about, and live, our autistic culture we will never truly fit in.

It’s impossible. The autism never just gets ‘trained away’. It’s our defining truth, our centre, our depth.

And it deserves honouring.

In fact, it’ll save lives.

In this 90 minute workshop we’ll cover:

• definitions and inclusive language

• The problem with the spectrum

• The reasons it feels like there’s more autism than ever before

• Dispelling autism myths

• What autistic culture is

• Ways Autistic culture might look

• How you can accomodate autistic culture

For an hour I’ll share knowledge, for half an hour I’ll answer your questions.

In this webinar will barely stop for breath, I have a lot to say!

Alli x

PS. I have a special bonus for those of you who register: receive a code for 20% off the price of my newly re-released Brains = Behaviours course!