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Pete Wharmby

@petewharmby.com
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Author, keynote speaker, geek, autistic and ADHD. www.petewharmby.com

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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 04/09/2026
Available now - Different Minds, How We can Help Our Autistic School Children Thrive
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 28/08/2026
6 days to publication. If you want to know why schools are seemingly inaccessible to autistic children, and what we can do about it, then this is the book for you. I wrote it for parents, teachers, civil servants and everyone who is in any way involved in the education of our children.
A book called Different Minds, How We can help our autistic school children thrive, with a purple-blue cover, and pink and white writing.
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 25/05/2026
Education needs to change.... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergent
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 28/04/2026
ebury.lnk.to/differentminds
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 01/03/2025
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 09/12/2024
The relentless gaslighting of autistic experience
Edward the Blue Engine looking sad, with the caption 'when someone yet again tells you that actually it's not too hot in here at all, and to stop being silly'
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 09/12/2024
My favourite Gary Larson panel ever.
Image of a cartoon young boy inside a wasp nest. 2 wasps in trenchcoats are talking about the holes in the nest, which appear to have been made by stones thrown from inside the hive. They haven't noticed the young boy.
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 08/12/2024
I'm sorry but the Japanese cover of my book Untypical is the best cover I've ever seen.
Japanese cover of Untypical with a large black moomin shaped thing drinking tea on a backdrop of trees
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 06/12/2024
I think this is a parody image but my god it goes hard
Reddy Kilowatt, the US electricity mascot from the 1920s, pulling a knife on a child with the caption "remember kids, electricity will kill you"
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 06/12/2024
I believe most people would have a picture of a person (probably a child; probably male) in meltdown, or stimming to calm, or holding hands over their ears. Rather than, say, a contented autistic person deep in hyperfocus having a great time. This tells us a lot about society in general, I think.
When people imagine autism, they imagine autistic distress. This is damning of society, isn't it?
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 05/12/2024
What's that you say? More Thomas neurodiversity memes? Sure, I have a tonne....
Donald and Douglas from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends both looking grumpy, with the caption 'when autism wants to read this book and ADHD wants to read all the books'
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 05/12/2024
You need my neurodivergent Thomas memes in your life, Bluesky.
Picture of Edward the Blue Engine looking very upset with the words 'When you're feeling awful but you have no idea why because of alexithymia and interoception differences.'
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 05/12/2024
Oops my hyperfocus on Mt St Helens is back everyone
Mt St Helens before and after the eruption of 1980 - half the mountain has gone
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 03/12/2024
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 02/12/2024
Me, so long as I never, ever interact with anything or anyone at any point
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 02/12/2024
Me thinking about the 90s
Homer simpson sits on his car bonnet looking at the stars after his mother left
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 30/11/2024
Asynchronous communication is where it's at.
A cartoon laptop in peach, pink and greys with the following written onscreen: 'Autistic people can really benefit from asynchronous communication, like online where replies aren't needed immediately'
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 30/11/2024
Skye, October 2024
Mountains under a lively blue and grey sky
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 24/11/2024
Post your fav pokemon, wrong answers only
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 23/11/2024
Who's up for a few years of playing SimCity 3000?
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 20/11/2024
Who's up for some LEGO train action?
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 19/11/2024
The Japanese edition of my book, Untypical
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 19/11/2024
Here's my favourite picture from my recent holiday in Skye.
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 18/11/2024
A parody of the 9/10 dentists agree concept using the character Mark Corrigan from Peep Show
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 17/11/2024
Me enjoying the vibe here
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Pete Wharmby @petewharmby.com · 17/11/2024
My brain goes at 400mph all the time, making relaxation basically impossible. So busy, so noisy. It's tiring.
With ADHD, much of the hyperactivity can be in the brain (on a pink and white flowery background)
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