{"id":860,"date":"2020-01-08T19:05:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T19:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ndsa.uk\/content\/?page_id=860"},"modified":"2022-02-25T17:34:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:34:17","slug":"guest-blog","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/knowledge\/guest-blog\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n.title-blogs {\nbackground-image: linear-gradient(to right, #262D46, transparent), url(\"https:\/\/ndsa.uk\/forum\/ndsa_images\/hero_blogs.jpg\");\nbackground-size: cover;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"ndsa-title title-blogs\">\n<h1> Blogs <\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<style type='text\/css' media='all'>#rt-tpg-container-122577295 .rt-holder .rt-woo-info .price{color:#6b6b6b;}body .rt-tpg-container .rt-tpg-isotope-buttons .selected,\n\t\t\t\t\t#rt-tpg-container-122577295 .layout12 .rt-holder:hover .rt-detail,\n\t\t\t\t\t#rt-tpg-container-122577295 .isotope8 .rt-holder:hover 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href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/category\/blog\/\" rel=\"tag\">Blog<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class='tpg-excerpt'>The Treasurer is a director of NeuroDiverse Self Advocacy Partnership CIC (NDSA) and shares responsibility with the rest of the board for the governance of the organisation&#8230;<\/div><div class='post-meta '><span class='read-more'><a data-id='1660' class='' href='https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/treasurer-director\/'>Read More<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rt-col-md-4 rt-col-sm-6 rt-col-xs-12 even-grid-item rt-grid-item\" data-id=\"1657\"><div class=\"rt-holder\"><div class='rt-detail'><h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a data-id=\"1657\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/it-director-and-digital-leader\/\">IT Director and digital leader<\/a><\/h2><div class='post-meta-user  '><span class='author'><i class='tpg-flaticon-user '><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/author\/marie\/\">Marie<\/a><\/span><span class='date'><i class='tpg-flaticon-calendar '><\/i>November 3, 2020<\/span><span class='categories-links'><i class='tpg-flaticon-folder '><\/i><a class=\"blog\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/category\/blog\/\" rel=\"tag\">Blog<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class='tpg-excerpt'>Voluntary role If building a secure digital infrastructure for an exciting peer to peer support project which could make a huge difference to thousands of people excites you, talk to us. You could be located anywhere in UK as this is a remote opportunity. What will you be doing? You would need to be able &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/it-director-and-digital-leader\/\">Read more<\/a>&#8230;<\/div><div class='post-meta '><span class='read-more'><a data-id='1657' class='' href='https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/it-director-and-digital-leader\/'>Read More<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rt-col-md-4 rt-col-sm-6 rt-col-xs-12 even-grid-item rt-grid-item\" data-id=\"1647\"><div class=\"rt-holder\"><div class=\"rt-img-holder\"><a data-id=\"1647\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/elastigirl-the-autistic-zebra\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/face-woman-with-black-white-zebra-stripes-1small-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"rt-img-responsive \" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class='rt-detail'><h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a data-id=\"1647\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/elastigirl-the-autistic-zebra\/\">Elastigirl: The Autistic Zebra<\/a><\/h2><div class='post-meta-user  '><span class='author'><i class='tpg-flaticon-user '><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/author\/marie\/\">Marie<\/a><\/span><span class='date'><i class='tpg-flaticon-calendar '><\/i>November 2, 2020<\/span><span class='categories-links'><i class='tpg-flaticon-folder '><\/i><a class=\"blog\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/category\/blog\/\" rel=\"tag\">Blog<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class='tpg-excerpt'>I have lived with the symptoms of EDS my entire life, with joint pain and symptoms of POTS appearing when I was a toddler, although being so small I was unable to adequately express what I was experiencing. Having lived with a certain degree of chronic pain and fatigue my entire life, and being unable to remember a time when I did not live in agony, I assumed it was a completely normal part of the human experience and I was simply lazy and weak for being unable to push through like everyone else did&#8230;<\/div><div class='post-meta '><span class='read-more'><a data-id='1647' class='' href='https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/elastigirl-the-autistic-zebra\/'>Read More<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"rt-col-md-4 rt-col-sm-6 rt-col-xs-12 even-grid-item rt-grid-item\" data-id=\"1514\"><div class=\"rt-holder\"><div class=\"rt-img-holder\"><a data-id=\"1514\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/flow-unlocked-an-interim-reflection\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/G-Pavlopoulou-autistic-artist-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"rt-img-responsive \" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div><div class='rt-detail'><h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a data-id=\"1514\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/flow-unlocked-an-interim-reflection\/\">Flow Unlocked: an interim reflection<\/a><\/h2><div class='post-meta-user  '><span class='author'><i class='tpg-flaticon-user '><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/author\/briony-campbell\/\">Briony Campbell<\/a><\/span><span class='date'><i class='tpg-flaticon-calendar '><\/i>June 21, 2020<\/span><span class='categories-links'><i class='tpg-flaticon-folder '><\/i><a class=\"blog\" href=\"https:\/\/dev.ndsa.uk\/content\/category\/blog\/\" rel=\"tag\">Blog<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class='tpg-excerpt'>Dr Georgia Pavloopoulou is an autism researcher specialising in family research and autistic mental health. 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So 10 minutes in, I begin getting twitchy. Why? I&#8217;m looking out of the window at a gorgeous blue sky. 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