Breaking the Boundaries

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>How can we break the systems excluding autistic people from higher education?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Universities and colleges are built on systems that by nature exclude Autistic students since they're built on neurotypical foundations. As one of the few actually autistic Higher Education mentors for Autistic students in the UK </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Jorik Mol</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> seeks to improve Autistic students' lives by validating their experience and challenging universities to listen to them.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Drawing from his own lived experience and building on case studies working alongside his mentees </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Mol</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)> offers guidance on how to best support students emphasising the need to normalise radical empathy values-driven motivation and self-advocacy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(118 118 118 1)>Exploring topics including community boundaries and burn-out while pushing hard against the status quo this book is ideal reading for students of Education Disability Studies Sociology Psychology and Queer and LGBTQ+ Studies as well as education practitioners and policy makers.</span></p><p></p>