Pete Wharmby's Autism and Teaching Blog

Traditional grammar schools selected their intake on passing a test, the Eleven-Plus.   This academic filter would ensure that they only e...

It is now three months since I informed my school that I wished to step down from being the Head of English, and just over two months since ...

What a miserable phrase ‘zero-tolerance’ is.  Its very existence condemns the concept of tolerance as something weak, haphazard or undesirab...

I have a great deal of patience with my daughter.  It seems that I share a lot of characteristics with your average 3 year old (and I mean t...

I would imagine that at some point in the past we have all spent time holding our breath.  It's a fun thing to compete in as a child - w...

It was becoming a father that set the ball rolling for my eventual diagnosis with Aspergers.  This transpired through a number of different ...

First of all, Christmas is a potential nightmare for autistic folk. The lights, noise, Slade, too many people squeezed into a front room,...

This week I have been learning about the concept of 'camouflaging' as a technique used by autistic people to get by in the world of ...

I am coming at this purely from an angle of experience - please bear that in mind.  However, I have always had considerable success in helpi...

I know that face: that face means upset.  It's the angle of the head and the amount the eyes are closed, seen it many times before.  And...

Asperger's syndrome, being on the autistic spectrum, is a combination of three key areas of daily difficulty: social interaction, social...

On Wednesday morning I went to Devizes for my third and final assessment appointment, four weeks after I had started.  These assessment sess...

Talking to someone with Asperger's must be maddening at times, especially if they are having an off-day and their usual coping mechanism...

If you've been reading my blogs and thinking 'goodness, this sounds just like me!' then it may well be that you fancy taking thi...

Being obsessed with something can be great fun.  It means you never get bored of it, and it becomes a tremendous comfort to indulge in whate...

Lots and lots of people are socially anxious, and lots are introverted.  This does not mean they are on the autistic spectrum at all, and fo...

I have always been rather introverted.  I say 'rather' with a sense of grim irony, as I am in fact deeply, painfully introverted; th...