Marion McLaughlin is the Managing Director of Aurora Autistic Consulting. They have a varied career background including stable hand, road safety officer, primary school teacher, and Autistic led charity CEO.
Marion founded Aurora Autistic Consulting to help all kinds of organisations, including schools, workplaces, NHS, and charities, to support Autistic people and their families in a neuroaffirming way.
They also run webinars open to all on a wide variety of topics, and are proud to host Autistic Pride Aberdeen. Their children’s picture book, Morven’s First Autistic Pride, is out today.
Standing in the rain after finding out that I am officially Autistic I had two immediate thoughts.
My first was:
“Oh sh!t, that means I’ll never be good socially, and that’s ok cause I never was before.”
And secondly:
“I want to put on Autistic Pride in my city.”
My first thought was largely joking with myself. I had managed to muddle by for 39 years and at the time I didn’t really understand Autistic communication as a part of Autistic community and culture. The second thought was a serious one, and I followed up on it.
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