NLISN Unmasked

Our new blog post series provides a platform for members of the NLISN community to voice their opinions on a range of issues centred around their lived experiences of neurodiversity. They are socio-political, controversial, topical and personal. We are providing a method for our community to speak openly to allies outside of the existing closed safe space we have been providing since NLISN’s beginnings. We hope that through reading these, you will learn more about the daily reality, difficulties and concerns of professionals in our sector.

Disclaimer

The views in these blog posts are from anonymous members of NLISN and represent issues and opinions that they personally feel strongly about. They are not the view of all NLISN members and do not form recommendations or position statements of the organisation. We do not publish anything that we consider to be libel or slander. We do not invite debate about their content in response and we are posting them as submitted with only some light editing for clarity.

  • Neurodivergent adult play and LIS work

    I’ve been involved in play and playfulness in adulthood related things for quite a few years now and I’ve found one aspect of it quite uncomfortable to me for much of that time. When people discuss playfulness, or even create tools to assess how playful someone is, there is always a strong “social” element built…

    Read more… https://nlisn.org/2026/06/08/neurodivergent-adult-play-and-lis-work/