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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Goodbye for now, I hope to see you elsewhere x www.TheSensoryProjects.co.uk/contact

Image shows a seagull high on the wing above an ocean, in the distance on the horizon land is in sight. Text across the image reads: A person's ability to communicate does not depend on their mastery of certain skills, but on our ability to listen. A heart shape has been cut out from the bottom right hand corner, in it text reads: I tried, but perhaps I am too old to learn new tricks. I hope to connect with you on the platforms I can manage! www.TheSensoryProjects.co.uk/contact All the best Jo

Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Last night I dreamed Flo and I were working together at the Super Sensory Lexiconary. I was trying to get the final slide deck up and it wouldn't open. Flo had to leave the workshop she was running to help me. But neither of us could get it to work. So we couldn't get to the end.

A photo of me (white middle aged woman) and Flo (elderly white woman) bending over a laptop. text reads: Last night I dreamed Flo and I were working together at the Super Sensory Lexiconary. I was trying to get the final slide deck up and it wouldn't open. Flo had to leave the workshop she was running to help me. But neither of us could get it to work. So we couldn't get to the end.

Sometimes my subconscious is a puzzle to me, but I don't think it is hiding much here!

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Isabelle Finn-Kelcey @isabellefk.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Fantastic episode ✨

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

My penguins are surviving the weather, this one lost it's scarf but the people in my little village have found it and returned it. (Other penguin adventures, the punky one is roaming around and possibly caused the one with the halo to topple - isn't that always the way of things? And one

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Today is the day! #Purplesockday #idpwd25 Parallel / BAM Clothing purple socks are worn to celebrate International Day of Persons with Disabilities, monies from their sale goes into a fund for disabled entrepreneurs. Get yours here here bambooclothing.co.uk/purple-sock-... #StyleWithPurpose

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Nearly home... one more train to go, couple of hours, then find the car, find the village, find my boys.

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I have been working on a re-anaylsis of the data generated for my PhD studies, this time focusing on Autistic experience. I am really pleased with how practical some of the insights coming out of it are. I can see their application for me in terms of

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

youtu.be/n2xvb8I3ML0?... The engagement following yesterday's keynote: Neurodivergent and Not Attending was huge, with lots of people asking me to repeat what was said. Cue me trying to mumble the line of argument made at midnight in bed!

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Neurodivergent and Not attending

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Another busy day for Monkey and me. Keynote: Neurodivergent and Not Attending. Seminar: Distinguishing Burnout from School Anxiety. A theme ran through all the presentations about the effect of the words we use. We recognise the power of words. So many interesting, and

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Yesterday Monkey and I were talking about talking about neurodivergent people. Today I am booked to deliver a keynote speech to the Black Country PINs group...should I bring Monkey along?

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

My 5yr old asked me to take him with him on the train in my suitcase. We compromised on me taking his beloved Monkey instead.

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Monkey and I travelled a long way today to play talking about neurodivergence bingo. Hurrah for getting a Bingo, even if it did take the best part of an hour!

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Chopping the onion small to hide it in dinner. A technique for getting some children to eat more veg. Not one I would suggest to parents of neurodivergent children who are struggling with eating. This afternoon I got to talk to the staff of Greenside, and their wider networks, about

White middle aged woman with brown eyes, hair and dress, chopping onion on a wooden board

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

The Sensory Stories of the season! Family Party to prepare you for family parties Magic a humorous retelling of the Christmas story Snow...Will it snow? www.thesensoryprojects.co.uk/sensory-stories

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Final two almost ready for Sunday night's shenanigans

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Now back home to the small one who has been waiting

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

On the train. Ready to show my ticket. Ready to show my sock-fluencer card. Representing #Purplesockday #StyleWithPurpose #idpwd25 #idpwd bambooclothing.co.uk/PURPLE-SOCK-...

A rainbow keyboard laptop with a clipboard of notes next to it on a train table. On top of the notes are three train tickets and a purple postcard saying 'sock-fluencer' on it

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

So funny that yesterday I was wondering about people whose jobs mean they have meetings in glass boxes and today that was my job. How the world turns!

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

www.facebook.com/share/p/17HF... Today I went to an event about communication and technology, I wrote notes on post it notes, this album has the stand out notes.

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Redirecting...

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Wonderful start to my first day actually wearing my @parallellifestyle @wearebam #purplesockday socks: listening to Prof Ben Simmons talking about the personhood of people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and seeing that the gorgeous sculpture made by someone

Purple stripey socks pointing at the cover of BJLD upon which a clay sculpture shows a woman cradling a child

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Today in under a minute, from hail to pod cocoon, and along the way I finished a rough draft of my work on autistic experience in research and managed, due to an act of amazing serendipity from an online friend, to find a journal that might be interested in it, exciting for me.

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

On my way to say goodbye to Flo, I will be stopping off at an AAC conference on route...feels very apt.

I am standing on a train platform at dawn, the clouds are dramatically lit, grey sweep cracks of brightness, patch of blue sky. I am wearing kneehigh fur lined boots, pink tights and a pink jumper dress. I have a red faux fur cape on, my long brown hair is tied back in a plait and I have a headband of twigs and flowers. I am looking down the railway line for my train

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Love this! I'd been wondering how to 'sock-fluence' for #PurpleSockDay in honour of #IDPwD but people have been reaching out with ideas, drawings and today: in song! @parallellifestyle.bsky.social Bamboo Clothing www.parallellifestyle.com/purple-sock-...

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Well thank you @discoverinclusion.bsky.social Mark & I & our @parallellifestyle.bsky.social Bamboo Clothing Purple Socks clearly inspired you? www.parallellifestyle.com/purple-sock-... What do you think Mark? A connection to rival online communication? An alternative to a lapel mic at conferences?

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Theme Six! This one was so easy to explain compared to the others. Autistic people often experience time differently (Could be because they are taking in more information) youtu.be/HJ9XbNUOXt0

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

It has got dark, so far I have managed to change trains and ride the tube without losing the wheel, just one more change and then a hike in the dark to find my car and I will be home.

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I will be minding the gap a lot today! I have to do the tube as well, it is going to be exciting even if the weather doesn't get me.

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

There's loads of great advice about how to do research, books and books of the stuff. Some of it worked for me, and some of it didn't. I had to find my own autistic way of doing stuff. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... By doing this I could make being autistic an analytic

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Scarborough here I come! I left home just after 7.30am, aiming to be in my hotel room by 6.30pm. Looking forward to exploring the impact of the senses on behaviour tomorrow. :-)

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Pebble Autism @pebbleautism.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This short video clip describes so well the familiar experience of internal shame and self-judgement so many of us feel when our cognitive and/or social capacity doesn’t meet the demands of a situation @jo3grace.bsky.social

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

The two films I released yesterday are the start of the big stuff from the #phdlife. All that studying you saw me do, resulted in 4 findings. Yesterday's films were about the first one: Intention. In a nutshell: We are conditioned to think of people as brains in youtu.be/zj1E1NuWY3w

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Pages 94-100ish The first of the Findings! Intention - part 1

YouTube video by The Sensory Projects

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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

"When I can speak, I feel clever, and when I cannot speak I feel foolish, and these feelings are my own internalised ableism." Important film exploring the artificial speaking/nonspeaking binary from @jo3grace.bsky.social #autism #neurodiversity #autistic youtu.be/2a95P2pV-ZM?...

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2 Semi Speaking

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Please forgive me the errors. I know that lately it must look like I am typing drunk a lot of the time. But recently my eyesight has taken a hit and a lot of the time the world is in soft focus for me. At my desk I have the relevant glasses, but I work ALL the time and some of

Photo reads: Have you noticed more typos in my posts than there used to be?
In bold letters: MORE SPELING MISRAKES?
With a photo of me: I am a white middle aged woman with brown hair and eyes, in the photo my hair is quite messy, I'm wearing large cherry earrings a white fluffy cardigan, and a pink dress with a white fluffy trim. I am smiling but I look slightly worried.

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Right @markwebb99 challenge accepted. Mark is a fellow sock-fluencer for @parallellifestyle.bsky.social #Purplesockday initiative, in recognition of #idpwd they sell gorgeous @wearebam socks. Monies from the socks go into a fund to support disabled entrepreneurs. There are lots of us

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I am a card carrying sock-fluencer! Thus begins a confusing time of year for me when I have to try and figure out how to sock-fluence! Any suggestions?

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

youtu.be/ktATbq9g-08 Data analysis is a bit like doing a jigsaw - at first all the bits & pieces make no sense, but you sort through them, get familiar, start to notice - these ones have straight edges, these ones are blue, you group & sort, & try & turn etc until: a picture!

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data analysis 2

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