‘Learning About Autistic Culture’ began as a one off webinar followed by such an inundation of requests for a follow up that ‘Learning About Autistic Culture Part 2’ was created a week later. Now we’ve packaged both resources up as one!

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.

Video 1 - we will cover the basics of autism through the lens of a culture, as a way of divesting from the medical model, deepening our understanding of the neurodiversity paradigm and recognising that living as an autistic person or an autistic family is far from the problem it is often portrayed as, and that deep authentic connecting makes life infinitely more meaningful.