I dropped out of school due my autism, mental health conditions and difficulties with friendships and bullying in year eight — and have been playing catch up ever since. Amy Walker is an Autistic advocate and founder of the Neurodiversity Works campaign Originally published in the Huffington Post Around 700,000 people in the UK are autistic and yet just 16% of autistic adults are in full time paid employment. …

Amy Walker is a neurodiverse, autistic, dyslexic and dyspraxic campaigner, who has been on the Scope for Change campaign training programme since 2018. In this article, she describes the programme’s graduation ceremony and the campaigns that were talked about during the event. On the 14th of February, the #ScopeforChange campaigners…

This time last year, if you had told me that I would be speaking publicly on a regular basis, frankly I would not have believed you. I had just finished a two week Autism Exchange internship in the Civil Service, which had filled me with hope and helped to prepare me for work. …

Yesterday I spoke at A New Direction’s event, Partnerships, Co-production and Compromise. I shared my experience as a young creative, finding my way through an educational system that was inaccessible to an autistic person from a challenging background, and the help I’ve had from Create Jobs, Balance CIC, Ambitious about Autism, Autistica, The Prince’s’ Trust, Hillcroft College, Scope and Time to Change in accessing opportunities to thrive.

A few months ago I was honoured to find out I had been chosen as a #ScopeForChange campaigner. I had been having a tough few months, not getting far with job applications and suddenly a bunch of opportunities arrived at once: the three month internship at m/SIX through the Autism…

You would have to go far to find someone who hasn’t heard about Kanye West’s recent antics. A flurry of tweets over the past few months created a furore bigger than any Kanye has experienced in the past. On previous album rollouts we’ve seen what some people have described as…

Originally published in edited form on the Civil Service Blog for World Autism Awareness Week 2018 — Autistic people have ‘special interests’: subjects about which they are passionate and knowledgeable. My special interest is current affairs and policy, and so when I saw that Ambitious about Autism’s Autism Exchange programme was running a placement in the Civil Service, I jumped at the chance! At this point I…

Originally published in edited form on the Ambitious About Autism blog for World Autism Awareness Week 2018 — My name is Amy, and I am a female on the Autistic spectrum. My parents began suspecting I was different early on. I learned everything about certain subjects, but I wasn’t that interested in playing with dolls or other children. When I did play, I would act like a director…

Originally published at the Ambitious about Autism blog in November 2017 — Autistic people tend to have ‘special interests’: subjects about which they are passionate and knowledgeable. Well, my special interest is public affairs and policy, and so when I saw that Ambitious about Autism’s Autism Exchange programme would be hosting a placement in the Civil Service, I jumped at the chance! …