SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE AWARDS 2020

We are proud to announce tat we have won the 'Most Progressive Community Health Service' award at this years Southern Enterprise Awards. We are over the moon and so very grateful.

We stride to keep moving forward and upwards.

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THE ALTERNATIVE BEDROOM TAX...ON SEX (BUT ONLY IF YOU'RE DISABLED)

Illustration: Dotti Colvin" "copyright SWAD Recently government guidance banned close contact indoors between two or more people from different households, due to Coronavirus. Some interesting headlines followed, along the lines of “British Bonking Ban” and “UK Sex Ban”. The general population were outraged at this interference in their private sexual lives, and didn’t like being told “no” regarding this pleasurable adult activity. It got me thinking about how different life c...

SEX, RELATIONSHIPS AND ASPERGERS

Blog for Autism Awareness Month - April 2020 It never fails to amaze me that every individual’s presentation of an autism spectrum condition (ASC) is different from one another - yet some of the challenges they face are very much a common experience. As an example, take myself and my partner Mike, both Aspies. As teenagers, I was quite the flirt and in receipt of multiple presents and cards on Valentine’s Days. It was a different story for Mike however, he didn’t (and often still doesn’t) spot the signs that somebody fancies him. Having an ASC and being able to talk about sex in a pragmatic and straightforward way without embarrassment, normalises those conversations for the people we meet at events and in everyday life. It is almost as though, by us talking openly about disability and sex - it makes it okay for them to talk about it too. Fast forward to the 2015 Naidex exhibition in the NEC Birmingham, the largest disability-related exhibition there is in the UK. We...

SEX, RELATIONSHIPS AND ASPERGERS

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