Category Archives: Neurodiversity

Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025: Acquired Neurodivergence!

At 3:30pm UK time on Tuesday 18 March: FREE online panel event for Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025. Chaired by Charlie Hart, this panel discussion with David Gray-Hammond, Katie Munday, Ollie Roscoe, Tanya Adkin, and new speaker Casey, will tackle the topic of Acquired Neurodivergence. We will be sharing our lived experience of differences which fallContinue reading “Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2025: Acquired Neurodivergence!”

Celebrating Audre Lorde’s Impact on DEI

“We don’t live single-issue lives” – Audre Lorde As we mark LGBT+ History Month in the UK and Black History Month in the USA, this is the perfect time to honour the legendary Audre Lorde – a Black lesbian feminist, poet, and activist. Long before intersectionality became a key concept in DEI, Lorde was livingContinue reading “Celebrating Audre Lorde’s Impact on DEI”

Progressing Neurodiversity Inclusion in 2025

In this keynote, Charlie will delve into the Neurodiversity Paradigm, shining a light on Neurodivergence in professional adults, particularly Autism and ADHD. She will draw on lived experience insights, professional HR expertise, and deep knowledge of evolving DEI best practice and emerging trends. Charlie will explain how and why to implement neuro-inclusion strategies at work,Continue reading “Progressing Neurodiversity Inclusion in 2025”

Intro post for new followers

I am Charlie, my pronouns are she/her or they/them. My adjectives are Autistic, ADHD, and Awkward AF. I am multiple-neurodivergent (Autistic, ADHD, complex PTSD), and I am bisexual/pansexual, and gender non-conforming (a queer AuDHDer). I have been a social media neurodiversity advocate since my autism epiphany in 2018, under the name ‘Ausome Charlie’ with anContinue reading “Intro post for new followers”

Open Letter to Wes Streeting from AIM for the Rainbow about puberty blockers ban

Today, AIM’s CEO Emma Dalmayne handed an open letter from AIM for the Rainbow to The Rt. Hon. Wes Streeting MP. In this letter, we collectively voice the autistic community’s concerns about the ban on puberty blockers, and the resulting increased risk of suicide for young trans people (30 second video with captions). Please signContinue reading “Open Letter to Wes Streeting from AIM for the Rainbow about puberty blockers ban”

Sticks and Stones

First published by Mix Diversity for Anti-Bullying Week November 2024: Sticks and Stones | Blog | Mix Diversity Sticks and Stones ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me’, says the old adage, but another says, ‘the tongue wounds more than a lance’. Although I have no experience of beingContinue reading “Sticks and Stones”

Alexithymia, community, and ‘jelly buddies’

I had an absolute blast at the Professional Speaking Association summit over the weekend, but I need to get real for a moment. Sometimes things can happen that make me feel incredibly disabled, and incompetent, and this can have a devastating effect on me, but not immediately, it is a delayed emotional response. I haveContinue reading “Alexithymia, community, and ‘jelly buddies’”

My pronouns: What and why?

It is International Pronouns Day so here is what my pronouns mean and why I share them. “She/they” (or I sometimes express this “she/her or they/them”) means that I am happy for you to refer to me using the traditional female pronouns (she/her) or standard gender-neutral alternatives (they/them/their). Although I do identify as a woman andContinue reading “My pronouns: What and why?”

7 facts about my Complex PTSD

This World Mental Health Day, here are 7 things I would like you to know about my PTSD and complex PTSD (cPTSD, C-PTSD). #WorldMentalHealthDay #PTSD #ComplexPTSD #CPTSD I mention both because I self-identified complex PTSD, but my official diagnosis just says PTSD. Complex PTSD is not recognised by the medical profession; it is not inContinue reading “7 facts about my Complex PTSD”