Mental Health Matters | An article about autism, on another website

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A few words on autism, from the perspective of a father who’s just had his own diagnosis. More on that here.


One of the weird ways the internet works is that – under Google rules – your website is deemed to be better and will rise up search engine results screens if it links to lots of other sites. We’ve been down this road discussing such things before: a computer algorithm assesses the quality of a site, not a human being. Hence, clickbait and endless articles about a simple thing.

The problem is in the midst of that, articles that could really use eyes on them get a little lost in the mix. As such, this particular weekly chapter of our Mental Health Matters series is about an article on another site, that we just wanted to amplify. In fact, I’m just going to send you straight to another site, if you don’t mind. Please come back though.

It’s a piece written by a friend of Film Stories, Dan Turner, whose son was diagnosed autistic, and then many years later, Dan has his own diagnosis. He’s been talking about this in an article written at the National Autistic Society, and his words speak for themselves. Hopefully, a link to the article will give it a tiny push in the Google search engine too.

Here’s the piece in question. Hope to see you back here, but either way, you all look after yourselves and take care.

https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/stories/dan-s-story

This column will return, ideally back on this site, next week…

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