Runcorn Autistic & Neurodivergent Adults . Peer Support

29/05/2026

A leak in the community room means it's temporarily closed so have to relocate until it's fixed. If anyone wants me to meet them outside let me know. Same time and drop is as usual ☀️

19/05/2026

19/05/2026

Don't go through this alone. Take the weight off your shoulders. Reach out to someone you trust 💙

19/05/2026

The lost generation.

There are those who seem to think that autism is the latest trend, and that it never existed just a few decades ago.

Especially in the media these days there is much misinformation and sensationalism to fit austerity cuts/agendas.

Nothing could be further from the truth, or be more damaging to autistic people. Denial never helped anyone.

Now after my own late diagnosis of autism at 50 and then ADHD at 63, I can clealy identify, friends, family and peers at school who were probably autistic.

As I write my book I can see their trates and their struggle.

Many like myself who paid a very high price for being autistic, as relentless bullying and exclusion by society was the norm.

Some like myself were placed in a Psychiatric hospitals.

In my case for 18 months. Looking back I now realize that many of my fellow patients were almost certainly autistic/ADHD/Neurodivergent.

Sadly some are no longer here to tell their story, I am lucky to have survived.

Now this lost generation are coming forward, those who were silenced and invisible are finding their voice through late diagnosis/self identifying.

There are actually many more autistic people out there, especially females.

We are finding our voices & also connecting online

Important to not that autism in many countries is not identified or hardly diagnosed as it may be taboo and they are hidden away from society.

The current stats are not reflective of the truth, there are many more.

The diagnosis process is still failing so many, and for that reason, many people cannot get a diagnosis or face huge delays, waiting lists of 6 years or are even closed.

The whole process can be traumatic and there is little support out there.

Others may choose not to be diagnosed and self identify as autistic, I was once one of them.

So when people who are not autistic talk about autism as an 'epidemic', I shake my head in disbelief, and remember the brutality of my childhood and many others, some who probably did not survive.

-Brian ❤️🌏🙏

Ps Since my diagnosis, I now know that my father and grandfather were autistic, all the traits were there and that helped me to get closure on my traumatic life.

19/05/2026

07/05/2026

May is .

Sending love to anyone who struggles every single day, not just throughout one month. We see you always!

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02/05/2026