Putting people in boxes is a basic human instinct. It’s how we try to understand other people. We do it to ourselves, labels that we identify ourselves by.

At last, not wearing a suit or tie at work is cool! What exceptions would I make, a funeral maybe, getting my OBE? Probably! But not much else.

Overused phrase Number 4.
Yes, I understand the importance of people being central to everything that affects them.

Overused phrase Number 3.  Safe space  ‘intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations’, (Wikipedia).

‘Working in silos’.  (Overused phrase Number 2).  This is used as a criticism of how we work and we are urged to stop this.  ‘We need to stop working in silos!’  But wait…this isn’t new – working in silos has been levelled as a criticism for decades.

In my next few blogs I am going to look at some of the buzz words and phrases that are around now in the world of working in autism and neurodiversity.

I have started delivery of another on-line programme of Understanding my Autism for adults recently diagnosed in later life (over 50) with my colleague Lynsey Stewart-Martin.

This year is already off to a busy start, helping parents to complete the pre-diagnosis questionnaire they have to complete as part of the neurodiversity assessment process.