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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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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 · 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

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

Thank you for sharing, I wrote in The Subtle Spectrum about multiple occasions of bumping into internalised ablism, it's always a very uncomfortable realisation and this one was especially so. www.thesensoryprojects.co.uk/books

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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

do not have to stay in your room and watch. Yesterday Mark took a photo wearing his purple socks as earrings and challenged me to do better. This isn't an attempt to outdo him (I will need longer to plot that) but the ridiculous of the photo and

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

went out loads, active, adventurous, social. After...was a different story. Grandpa was embarrassed by his disability. Especially things like bags of wee tapped to his leg. Now to Mark. Mark uses a wheelchair, he goes out in public dressed in ridiculous clothes (no shade Mark), he

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

roundabout by a speeding driver. Our family learned fast that there are not two distinct groups in society: the disabled and the non disabled. In an instant he became a paraplegic and his life shrank to his bedroom. You can see on the wall behind him the photos of the boats he loved. He could

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

sock-fluencers but Mark's advocacy means a lot to me personally. My Grandpa was a tall active man, he was one of that generation who lied about his age to serve in the war. He loved boats and raced yachts down the Solent with my mother. When I was 2 he was hit from the side on a

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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 · 07/11/2025

You may have seen some penguins here of late. I have been making a penguin advent calendar all year, and it's nearly ready! If you could see in my house you would see a pile in the corner of the dining room that is the advent calendars I am currently building for friends and family.

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I am continuing to do the post-doc work, that I would have been doing if the post-doc had gone ahead, and themes are emerging from the data analysis. Themes I can 'almost' articulate! For the full attempt click here: youtu.be/xH5JC_y-rZY

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Starting my day here, www.autismlearns.co.uk/understandin... talking about sensory differences. Would be lovely to see some friendly faces!

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

upbility.gr/search?optio... Oh my goodness, the first of my Sensory Stories to be published in Greek are out now: they look so smart!

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Penguin Parade...nearly ready for advent.

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I have been re-analysing the data generated during my PhD to explore autistic experience in research, although fairly niche in one way much of what I am finding has relevance to autistic experience across the board. Theme four is interesting because it involves a re-framing of

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