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Stories from the Spectrum

Welcome to our Stories from the Spectrum series. Here, autistic people, their friends and family members share their experiences of life on the autistic spectrum.



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Kerise Vowles-Myers

"Communication and empathy were huge issues when Daniel and I first got together seven years ago."

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Callum and Alison McBride

"Autism can be a gift because it can really help to give you that extra will-power, and you can get into things a lot more than many non-autistic people."

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Kevin and Andy

"The only thing that will really help Andy at the moment is a return to normality - even if it’s a different normal to the one we had before."

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Pride Stories: Eva Gibbs

"As I grew up, I still didn't find boys that interesting, but I assumed it was because I was autistic."

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Stories from the Spectrum: Alexis Quinn

"Rarely an hour goes by that I don't think about what happened in hospital."

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Stories from the Spectrum: Sumita Majumdar

"I lose the ability to properly process or make sense of any incoming information, like the whole system has stopped."

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Stories from the Spectrum: Ella Sanderson

"I wrote about my Asperger syndrome to help people understand what life on the spectrum is like."

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Stories from the Spectrum: Sam and Angela

"Society is much more open to talking about autism. I hope it can continue."

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James and Louise's diagnosis story

"With James' diagnosis, we could start the next phase in our lives."

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‘Stories from the Spectrum’ features voices from across the autism spectrum and highlights the rich variety of autistic experience. There are funny stories, thought-provoking stories, moving and challenging stories.

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Explore one of the UK's largest collections of autistic art, poetry, and prose. The Spectrum magazine is created by and for autistic people, and is available both online and in print.

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