Science, Education, Neurodiversity
Sonny and I visited the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh this weekend. It was the first day of the year when it felt warm enough at least in the sun to walk around in a t-shirt. I ve attempted to caption most of these with what I think they are, but the captions aren t showing, [ ] The post Botanics, Spring 2026 appeared first on Fergus Murray .
When I was designing this site, I spent a while finding photos that would potentially work as banners, with an unusual 3:1, 4:1 or even wider/shorter aspect ratio. Some of them, I ve turned the contrast down or made other edits to make them stand out less, or to accommodate text potentially going in front of [ ] The post Banner Photos appeared first on Fergus Murray .
This has been my third full year of long covid/ME/CFS, and my first full year since I left classroom teaching. It was the year I finally stepped down as Chair of AMASE, although I remain a committee member. The fifth Weird Pride Day happened in March, and I chatted with Robin Ince and Kate Fox [ ] The post 2025 Roundup appeared first on Fergus Murray .
I ve been busy this year and last, with various collaborations: parts of bigger projects, which are now coming to fruition. The 18th of September, 7-8:45pm sees the launch of two animations that I worked on, together with my partner Sonny and a great little team all autistic, apart from (probably) the animator. I m particularly [ ] The post Launches, 2025 appeared first on Fergus Murray .
Dear Sir Keir Starmer KC MP, I note that your 2024 manifesto includes the following: We will also modernise, simplify, and reform the intrusive and outdated gender recognition law to a new process. We will remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance; whilst retaining the need for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria [ ] The post To Sir Keir Starmer KC MP, on the matter of…
I started Weird Pride Day in 2021, but the roots of pride as a political tool go back through decades of the LGBTQ liberation movement, to Black power in the 1960s. Weird Pride in particular is a concept that many people, from a variety of backgrounds, have arrived at independently. Weird Pride Day is not [ ] The post All about Weird Pride Day appeared first on Fergus Murray .
After a year and a half of managing teaching around long covid/post-viral fatigue, with the last six months particularly bad after a second round of infections, I left classroom teaching at the end of the 2023-24 school year. While I was reluctant to make this move, I haven t missed the classroom as much as I [ ] The post 2024 Roundup appeared first on Fergus Murray .
I started 2023 with pretty bad fatigue, having had covid in December 2022, following on from a different virus in November which had already given me weeks of post-viral fatigue. This improved slowly over the course of the year, only for the same thing to happen at the end of 2023 this time, I [ ] The post 2023 Roundup appeared first on Fergus Murray .
I was formally identified as autistic at the age of 31, in 2010. I ve spent a lot of time in the last few years exploring what it means, for me and for other autistic people, as well as for the rest of the world. In that time I ve slowly been getting more open about being [ ] The post On Autism appeared first on Fergus Murray .
It s a Christmas miracle! If you know someone who is threatening to make boiled sprouts for Christmas, it may not be too late to make them make these instead. You’ll be glad you did, and so will everyone else who eats them. Ingredients: Brussels sprouts Flour for batter (I use gram flour; optionally, add baking [ ] The post Frazzle-Fried Sprouts appeared first on Fergus Murray .