Eliza Fricker
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first heard Oct 2022
last heard Oct 2022
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you're living with an enormous amount of uncertainty because you always have to be extremely flexible.
So there aren't strategies that you can use that are fail safe and you stick to those and it's going to work.
It changes continually because within that, you've also got a person who
wants that autonomy over their situation so if there's any moment where they feel that that autonomy is being taken away from them then they'll need to change that up again
Yeah, sure.
So my name is Eliza Fricker and I am an author and illustrator.
And I started out actually illustrating my blog a couple of years ago, which is called MissingTheMark.blog.
And that was really, I had a background in design and illustration, but when my child became too unwell to go to school, that was really, the blog was to help me process things.
eight years really of struggling within the education system and the systems of support.
So for me, my medium has always been
illustration and that helps me to process things.
So I started with Missing the Mark and it was from there that I was asked to write a book about PDA and things have kind of escalated within the realm of writing about all sorts of things within the education system and neurodivergence.
No, it wasn't.
I think something that I found very difficult to access within that world of parenting, particularly a child with extra needs, was any positivity.
It was quite gloomy.
And I'm not a gloomy person.
So for me, being able to put that...
empathy into those drawings and the humour as well was really important.
I want to show positivity and actually what's come out of this and the work that I do feels so much more meaningful than when I was designing wallpaper and working in that world, which now I still buy the interior magazines and they feel quite empty to me now.
That was so vacuous and shallow compared to what I do now.
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