Pellicano has just published a study of #actuallyAutistic mothers of autistic children, and their struggles with teachers in Australia schools.

It really resonated. Even though I present as male and authoritative (academic background, government job) I recognise the instant dismissal of autistic expertise by some, though not all, classroom teachers and head teachers.

There are wider problems, too. Especially in secondary school, the teaching methods and curriculum in Scotland are wholly wrong for our present crisis - a relentless emphasis on entrepreneurs, capitalism, having social worth through wealth, a complete unwillingness to recognize or criticize autonormativity, endless covert Protestant dogma - and certainly by secondary school a child can recognize hypocrisy and propaganda. That dissonance is never allowed as a subject of discussion, even though our children will refuse school the day after a particularly egregious bit of NewSpeak.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13623613241297223