Ashlea McKay
Quirk Monster #10: My need for processing time as an autistic person
Last week someone asked me for some time to sit down to learn more about an area of my expertise. I paused to process that information...
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Ashlea McKay
- Feb 29, 2020
- 3 min
Quirk Monster #9: The ghosts of pre diagnosis life part 1
I was diagnosed as autistic later in life. While that was an amazingly positive step forward for me and finally gave me a sense of...
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Ashlea McKay
- Feb 24, 2020
- 4 min
Quirk Monster #8: Autistic does not equal less capable
“How can you be autistic? You seem capable to me” is one of the most common things people say when they meet me for the first time and...
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Ashlea McKay
- Feb 22, 2020
- 3 min
Quirk Monster #7: Why I don’t like functioning labels for autism
I was having a blood test when the nurse spied my medicalert bracelet. They flipped it over, read the inscription and laughed. They...
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