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The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Basket

Autism as a cultural identity

3 min readMar 29, 2024

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Comparison of perspectives: a diverse set of emotions and experiences represented by colorful dots on the left, labeled as ‘someone’s day,’ versus the simplified views from others labeled as ‘what we see’ and ‘what we assume,’ depicted by fewer yellow dots.

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The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

My Son is Not Rainman

I wasn’t either, yet I was more akin to the human nature of autistic boys as a daughter.

4 min readFeb 15, 2024

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A book opening page stating, ‘I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.’

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The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

A Slow Start

That accelerated, and it needs a slower restart.

32 min readFeb 11, 2024

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A Slow Start

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The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

A Silent Order

A sensory reset

3 min readJan 21, 2024

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A Silent Order

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The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

A Gorgeous Time

And a wee story…

3 min readJan 18, 2024

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A Gorgeous Time

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The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

Autism Through the Lens of My Sensory Pyjamas

A reflective stitch in time

3 min readJan 11, 2024

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Old pyjamas with holes in them being hand stitched

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The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

The Comfort of Comfort Zones

A counterintuitive approach: no more updates

8 min readJan 7, 2024

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The Comfort of Comfort Zones

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The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

Making or Breaking Baking…

Banana Bread and some other random bits of life

8 min readOct 31, 2023

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riped banana on pink surface

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The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

A Hairy Reminder…

Of masking and conditioning

4 min readOct 27, 2023

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A woman with wild curly brushed put hair wearing glasses and red lipstick

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The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

Self Truth Decay

If we delay our truth, we decay our truth

3 min readOct 18, 2023

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A copy of the Book The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani.

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The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

The Self Advocating Autistic Pauline Harley

Sharing Lived Experiences From My Autistic Lens to Help People Become More Confident Self Advocates | Writer | Self Advocacy and Wellbeing Facilitator |

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