5 reports Joined 2 weeks ago

Priscilla Eyles

5 reports

Joined 2 weeks ago

Priscilla Eyles

I’m Priscilla Eyles, a CDA Trustee, neurodivergent inclusion trainer, life model and community reporter. I have lifelong links with the borough of Camden and am passionate about equity and inclusion for Disabled and Neurodivergent people and educating people to understand and disrupt intersectional oppression. I have autism and ADHD.

Commission Priscilla Eyles for a report

Part 1: How the traumas of racial and disability discrimination marked my childhood, by Priscilla Eyles

From near strangulation at birth to brainwashing at the hands of cult – the extraordinary challenges faced by a person with neurological conditions and multiple minority identities.

Reported 2 weeks ago

Part 2: From traumatised beginnings to unhappy times at school and work, Priscilla Eyles

In part two, Priscilla talks about how schools and then work places failed to identify or accommodate their conditions, instead preferring to bully and humiliate them.

Reported 2 weeks ago

Part 3: My mum only wanted to help – five years in the clutches of a cult

In part 3, Priscilla explains how society's failure to adapt to their conditions created vulnerabilities that led them into the clutches of a cult.

Reported 2 weeks ago

Part 4: If you can’t get a job done properly, do it yourself

In this fourth chapter, Priscilla explains how their identifying as having ADHD, and then autism, brought solace, but then led to frustration as official diagnoses eluded them.

Reported 2 weeks ago

Part 5: We fail tests or the tests fail us? – Getting an autism diagnosis

In this fifth and final chapter of Priscilla's life story, they talk about the challenges of getting an autism diagnosis if you don't present with stereotype behaviours.

Reported 2 weeks ago