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Haley Graham

๐Ÿ‘ค Person
177 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I've had some great feedback from parents, but I'm also from teachers, you know, working in pastoral roles or in send roles within schools, doing that work as well. And therapists, some of my own, I say that my own therapists that don't belong to me, but the therapists that I have working for the charity, they use them too, which is just wonderful.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

So, yeah, I mean, I think that the distance, you know, having that degree of separation, making it about animals and sort of having those metaphors really can help us to engage with something that otherwise could be too scary, too scary to look at.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

So, yeah, I mean, I think that the distance, you know, having that degree of separation, making it about animals and sort of having those metaphors really can help us to engage with something that otherwise could be too scary, too scary to look at.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

So, yeah, I mean, I think that the distance, you know, having that degree of separation, making it about animals and sort of having those metaphors really can help us to engage with something that otherwise could be too scary, too scary to look at.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

Thank you. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I hope so.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

Thank you. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I hope so.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

Thank you. Yeah, yeah. I mean, I hope so.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

Okay, so the second book is based on a series of interviews I did with late identified autistics. In those interviews, they told me their stories. And out of all the interviews, themes arose related to autism. And the themes that arose were loneliness, masking, vulnerability to abuse, sensory sensitivities, and persistent drive for autonomy, PDA, whatever people want to call it.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

Okay, so the second book is based on a series of interviews I did with late identified autistics. In those interviews, they told me their stories. And out of all the interviews, themes arose related to autism. And the themes that arose were loneliness, masking, vulnerability to abuse, sensory sensitivities, and persistent drive for autonomy, PDA, whatever people want to call it.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

Okay, so the second book is based on a series of interviews I did with late identified autistics. In those interviews, they told me their stories. And out of all the interviews, themes arose related to autism. And the themes that arose were loneliness, masking, vulnerability to abuse, sensory sensitivities, and persistent drive for autonomy, PDA, whatever people want to call it.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

So actually, what I've done is I've used a similar sort of idea. So I've written five stories individually.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

So actually, what I've done is I've used a similar sort of idea. So I've written five stories individually.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

So actually, what I've done is I've used a similar sort of idea. So I've written five stories individually.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

interwoven into a sixth and their stories set in a fantasy world aimed at teens uh the fantasy world is called galateria um the stories are very much inspired by the lives of the people that i interviewed and they very much explore the themes that came out of those interviews and it's sort of i suppose the idea is that when people read it they might see themselves in it or you know they might gain

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

interwoven into a sixth and their stories set in a fantasy world aimed at teens uh the fantasy world is called galateria um the stories are very much inspired by the lives of the people that i interviewed and they very much explore the themes that came out of those interviews and it's sort of i suppose the idea is that when people read it they might see themselves in it or you know they might gain

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

interwoven into a sixth and their stories set in a fantasy world aimed at teens uh the fantasy world is called galateria um the stories are very much inspired by the lives of the people that i interviewed and they very much explore the themes that came out of those interviews and it's sort of i suppose the idea is that when people read it they might see themselves in it or you know they might gain

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

a better understanding of what the felt experience is of being autistic.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

a better understanding of what the felt experience is of being autistic.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

a better understanding of what the felt experience is of being autistic.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Haley Graham : A Conversation on Mental Health, Autism, and Finding Your Way

October, I'm hoping.