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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

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

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 · 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

is being taken in every night by some kind souls and returned in the morning - princess penguin treatment!)

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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

What would it look like for you? What would it look like for the autistic person you support?

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

At this point I had taken in lots of information and could not take in more. I then left and did a bland activity until I felt my processing running again. Once it was up and running again I wrote up my fieldnotes. In this way I was able to create rich and detailed fieldnotes.

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

I was leaving the field in a disassociated state unable to usefully access any of the experiences I had just had. The reality of this forced me to adapt. The adaption: I stayed in the field until I started to recognise my processing glitching.

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

then my internal cache clears & I have a good understanding of all the info taken in. What this looked like practically for me: At the start of fieldwork I was following general advice - spend as long as possible collecting data, write up field notes as soon as possible upon leaving the field.

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

I take in a lot of sensory information in any given situation, at times I can get to a point where I have taken in so much that no more gets in. At this point if I try to keep going nothing useful happens. But if I allow time for buffering

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

the work I do in the future, for other researchers autistic & non autistic, & also for autistic people in other situations like school or the work place. This one essentially says recognising & respecting autistic ways of thinking can lead to more effective working practices. To give you an example:

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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

The playlist this is on has other material related to this topic. It might work well as a refresher for those who attended yesterday. Thank you all for caring so much about this topic, it gives me so much hope for a more inclusive embracing future.

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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

YouTube video by The Sensory Projects

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

Very beautiful angels you have there.

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

take the monkey instead, is not going to be dissuaded from his desire to hop in my suitcase by the resources available at this school!

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

heartbreaking, conversations around the edges, but such hope and beauty too, a room full of people trying really hard on behalf of neurodivergent children. A joyful day. Meanwhile my 5yr old who wanted to come with me, and I negotiated to

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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

what can make eating tricky for neurodivergent people and what approaches we might use for supporting them.

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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

Parallel purple socks are worn on international day of persons with disabilities. Money from the sale of the socks goes into a fund which supports disabled entrepreneurs.

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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

I know made the cover of the British Journal of Learning Disabilities What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Person’ With Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities? Presenting the Views of Family Members and Allies Ben Simmons, Stuart Read (2025) doi.org/10.1111/bld....

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What Does It Mean to Be a ‘Person’ With Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities? Presenting the Views of Family Members and Allies

Background Individuals with profound and multiple learning disabilities are at the centre of debates about what it means to be a person. These debates sometimes start from the position that a person.....

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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

Adapting to recognise and respect this makes work more effective. True in research. True in life. Really great practical application bit of research this one. youtu.be/HJ9XbNUOXt0 #phdlife #postdoc #AutisticExperience #autisticresearcher

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Theme six: Adapting for Autistic Temporality

YouTube video by The Sensory Projects

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