Kyra Chambers
Bio
Autistic (PDA) & Neurodivergent writer.
Vocal Plus Fiction Awards Finalist.
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Stories (21/0)
Autism, Empathy and Loss
The myth that Autistic people lack empathy has become common and widespread. There can be a gulf in understanding the differences between neurodivergent people and neuro normative people because of the way that we view the world very differently. As there is more movement towards research involving Autistic people on a more collaborative basis or by being led by Autistic professionals, it is clear that the stereotype that Autistic people do not understand or lack empathy is not true for many of us.
By Kyra Chambersabout a year ago in Humans
For Those Who Fight For The Ghost Children
I have not had the easiest of lives, sometimes I wonder if the mirror I broke when I was fourteen carried more than the standard seven years bad luck. There have been folks along the way without whom I wouldn't be sat here today and I hold each one in my heart dearly and your names are written on my soul.
By Kyra Chambers2 years ago in Education
Hidden Senses: How Stimming Impacts On Neurodiversity
It is well known that many Neurodivergent people often struggle with their environmental surroundings. For us, stepping into the everyday world is like being thrown into a swimming pool, we are hit with an onslaught of sensory information from all directions which can become distressing and confusing. We lack the ability to filter these experiences so often need to find some way to channel all the extra information our brain is being exposed to so we function and be able to live our lives in a calm and regulated way.
By Kyra Chambers3 years ago in Psyche
My Accidental New Career. Top Story - November 2021.
I'm a big believer in fate and coincidence. Perhaps it's the autistic in me that loves pattern finding, I see deeper than most people do, but I truly believe sometimes the Universe pops up and gives us a big kick up the backside for good reason. Often that reason is unclear whilst you're eyeball deep in the manure pile, but eventually, hopefully, life takes a better direction.
By Kyra Chambers3 years ago in Journal
Saved By The Sea
Mental Health Awareness has been at the forefront of many of our experiences in the last few years. When Covid-19 started to affect the world and countries enacted lockdowns for safety, many people experienced new challenges as the world stopped and we all had a moment to think about our lives in relation to the whole. We had spent so long on the hamster wheel of day to day living, shoving our problems deeper as we put a face on every day when we walked out of the door. Lockdown meant many of us realised that this way of life was causing us harm and that things had to change, that we could no longer live how we did before. For some lockdown increased their isolation and they found without others, they struggled to maintain good health. I think for all of us, it keenly bought home the fragility of the human condition.
By Kyra Chambers3 years ago in Psyche
One, Two, Three
Another morning, another mark scratched into the wall. She didn't know why she still felt this compulsion every day, finding anything with an edge just to make a litany of lines behind the bedpost. So many lines, she'd forgotten the counting words to know how many lines were really there. It had been so long since she'd seen anything other than sterile white walls and a tray of food that appeared through a rusted metal slot three times a day and every waking bought more blank spaces in place of memories from before the white room.
By Kyra Chambers3 years ago in Fiction
