Article in Asylum Magazine

I’m lucky enough that I’m shortly to be published in Asylum Magazine, a radical mental health publication. I’ve admired the magazine for years, as I align with their values surrounding psychiatric survivorship and amplifying mad people’s voices.

The article focuses on the ability of identifying a PDA profile to be highly empowering and neuroaffirming. In it I challenge the perception that PDA is a pathologising unnecessary term that shouldn’t be used to describe Autistic experiences. I explain the benefits that diagnosis has had for me, and how it avoids being labelled with more problematic diagnoses such as borderline personality disorder.

To find the article, if this interests you, find asylum magazine here.