Rochelle Johnson-Vestjens

It doesn’t have to be a fight

There’s no denying that the moment you receive an autism diagnosis is a moment of shock. No matter how proud an autistic I am I can’t deny that that is a

The Spectrum…

Anyone with any connection to Autism in just about anyway will have heard the words “On The Spectrum”. I have even seen in some social media groups the acronym OTS to refer to

A Century of posts

This post marks the 100th post on this blog. It is something of an achievement to have got to 100 posts on this project. I thank my readers for prevailing. It has certainly

A Day of two tales

This day has presented to me two virtually diametrically opposed narratives. On one hand was the really pleasurable experience of reading Karla McLaren’s wonderful article Focusing on autism-positive approaches (to stave off

Awaiting with trepidation

I have just received a tweet from a fellow autistic. Tonight in Australia in primetime we are having our tabloid current affairs show presenting a story of a media personality and his families