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Forget About ‘Healthy Life’
Sinéad Murphy
It has been reported that ‘healthy life expectancy’ in the UK has fallen during the past decade. Disparity between...
Autistic Barbie
Sinéad Murphy
Mattel has launched Autistic Barbie. Because children with autism should be visible, including to themselves. ‘Every child deserves to...
What Autism Is Not
Sinéad Murphy
In What Autism Is, I characterized autism as exclusion from the existential empathy on which meaningful human experience relies....
What Autism Is
Sinéad Murphy
Imagine that we do not know what blindness is. Imagine that we describe people as blind very often, but...
‘Something’s Wrong’: Donald Trump Was Right About Autism
Sinéad Murphy
‘Something’s wrong.’ So said Donald Trump, about the rising prevalence of autism in children. It was in an interview...
The Season for Living
Sinéad Murphy
In October 2020, Bob Moran published a cartoon privately on social media. Bob was still employed by The Telegraph...
Death, But Not As We Knew It
Sinéad Murphy
On Saturday 21st September, my neighbour collapsed and died while walking the hills of Northumberland. The coroner’s report confirmed...
Do not let them make you unsure of your child with a diagnosis of autism
Sinéad Murphy
On 29th August BBC News At Ten headlined with a report on the conviction of the killer of a...
Body or ‘Soul’
Sinéad Murphy
Along the high street where I live, there is an advertisement on the side of one of the bus...
Welcome to the Age of Abstraction
Sinéad Murphy
The UK Metereological Office has just reported that we have enjoyed the hottest May on record. Meanwhile, those of...
The Irish Are Losing Their Way
Sinéad Murphy Driving home after Christmas, we pulled in at the last toll plaza on the M8 to Cork....
Beware the “Autism Friendly City”
Sinéad Murphy On 6th November, Dublin launched its Autism Friendly City plan in a bid to become the world’s...
Safe, Smart, Special
Sinéad Murphy Safe, Smart, Special – the three pillars of our doublespeak. ‘Safe’ endangers your life; ‘Smart’ degrades your...
Run mad as often as you choose; but do not faint
Sinéad Murphy The University of Sunderland is advertising ‘masterclasses’ in ‘Menopause in the Workplace.’ The ad has been running...
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous…
Sinead Murphy As 2020 dawned, two concepts came to loom on our horizon: ‘pandemic’ and ‘lockdown.’ Within a month...
Canadian Conviviality vs. Global Helplessness
Sinead Murphy The showdown between Trudeau and the truckers has shown the real nature of a war that is...
The Capture of Goodness
Sinead Murphy ‘Goodness’ is not the word I wanted to use in this article. But ‘ethics’ sounded too abstract,...
Together Apart: The Social Distance Backstory
Sinead Murphy In the midst of outrage at restrictions on our living arrangements, issued by a UK government that...
STAY SAFE: The Abuse and Neglect of Care
The global ‘lockdown’ has sought to defy our capacities for analysis, with its shock-and-awe impact on what has been...
