Originally published in the Huffington Post for Autism Awareness Week on 12th April 2019 I dropped out of school due my autism, mental health conditions and difficulties with friendships and bullying in year eight — and have been playing catch up ever since. Around 700,000 people in the UK are autistic and yet just 16%Continue reading “Looking For A Job With Autism Made Me Feel Like I Was On The Scrap Heap of Society”
Category Archives: Personal Experience
Graduating from Scope for Change
Originally published on the Amy Walker Writes Medium blog on February 15th, 2019 Amy Walker is a neurodiverse, autistic, dyslexic and dyspraxic campaigner, who has been on the Scope for Change campaign training programme since 2018. In this article, she describes the programme’s graduation ceremony and the campaigns that were talked about during the event.Continue reading “Graduating from Scope for Change”
A Week of Speaking Up, a Year of Building Confidence
Originally published on the Amy Walker Writes Medium blog on November 26th, 2018 This time last year, if you had told me that I would be speaking publicly on a regular basis, frankly I would not have believed you. I had just finished a two week Autism Exchange internship in the Civil Service, which hadContinue reading “A Week of Speaking Up, a Year of Building Confidence”
Mental Health Awareness Day: My experience
Originally published on the Amy Walker Writes Medium blog on October 10th, 2018 Yesterday I spoke at A New Direction’s event, Partnerships, Co-production and Compromise. I shared my experience as a young creative, finding my way through an educational system that was inaccessible to an autistic person from a challenging background, and the help I’veContinue reading “Mental Health Awareness Day: My experience”
Campaigning with the Scope for Change programme
Originally published on the Amy Walker Writes Medium blog on September 7th, 2018 A few months ago I was honoured to find out I had been chosen as a #ScopeForChange campaigner. I had been having a tough few months, not getting far with job applications and suddenly a bunch of opportunities arrived at once: theContinue reading “Campaigning with the Scope for Change programme”
Supporting young people with autism gain Civil Service experience
Originally published in edited form on the Civil Service Blog for World Autism Awareness Week 2018 Autistic people have ‘special interests’: subjects about which they are passionate and knowledgeable. My special interest is current affairs and policy, and so when I saw that Ambitious about Autism’s Autism Exchange programme was running a placement in the Civil Service,Continue reading “Supporting young people with autism gain Civil Service experience”
Getting my Autism Diagnosis
Originally published in edited form on the Ambitious About Autism blog for World Autism Awareness Week 2018 My name is Amy, and I am a female on the Autistic spectrum. My parents began suspecting I was different early on. I learned everything about certain subjects, but I wasn’t that interested in playing with dolls or other children.Continue reading “Getting my Autism Diagnosis”
My experience of the Autism Exchange Civil Service internship with Ambitious about Autism
Originally published on the Ambitious about Autism blog in November 2017 Autistic people tend to have ‘special interests’: subjects about which they are passionate and knowledgeable. Well, my special interest is public affairs and policy, and so when I saw that Ambitious about Autism’s Autism Exchange programme would be hosting a placement in the Civil Service, IContinue reading “My experience of the Autism Exchange Civil Service internship with Ambitious about Autism”
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