Navigating the mental health system as an Autistic person: Sarah McCulloch educates Chloe & David
Channel: Aucademy
Date: 20/06/2021

Recorded and originally aired: 19th of June 2021, 19:00 London BST; 11:00 PST:
*Navigating the mental health system as an Autistic person: Sarah McCulloch educates Aucademy's Chloe & David*

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In this session, Sarah McCulloch (she/her) talks to Chloe and David about navigating the mental health system as an Autistic person.

Guest speaker details: 
Sarah McCulloch is the director of the Autistic Empire, an Autistic social organisation built by and for Autistic adults to form community-based on autism as a civic identity and to provide practical tools and services for all Autistic people. 

Sarah is also a mental health occupational therapist who works as the deputy manager in a community mental health team in London, UK. Sarah has worked with many Autistic people presenting to mental health services to try and access the support that they need and she sees a lot of misdiagnoses and lack of understanding on the part of professionals and clients, and would like to help Autistic people to advocate for themselves. 

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**Please note we are not clinicians or diagnosticians** 

Dr Chloe Farahar - Autistic academic, educator, and self-advocate 
David Gray-Hammond - Autistic writer, educator, and Autistic addiction and mental health advocate

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