Peter Wharmby

Peter Wharmby is an English autistic YouTuber.
He is a speaker, writer, and advocate for .
==Personal life==
Peter is a British Secondary English teacher. He has a child, who is also autistic. Pete has ADHD. In 2016, he was diagnosed with severe depression.
Pete has an MA and a BA from .
===Autism diagnosis===
Pete was diagnosed with Asperger’s in 2017, at the age of 34, having “always been rather introverted.” He had learned about autism from teaching, and took some online diagnostic tests, which returned strongly positive results. On the , a score of 104 is highly suggestive of autism. Pete scored 187. He was subsequently referred to an autism expert by his GP.
==YouTube==
Pete’s earliest video were Minecraft videos. He uploaded his first autism related video, Why do Autistic people dislike person first language?, on September 11, 2019.
==Books==
Pete’s first book, What I Want to Talk About, is planned to be released in August 2022. It is about eight of his lifetime’s special interests, used as a way to explore what it is like to be autistic.
Pete is developing a second book on autism for a more general audience.
==References==
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:English YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2012