Go back to what your mother taught you': TV presenter Susannah Constantine on the six money-saving hacks that helped her cut energy use on laundry by a THIRD! The former Today with Des and Mel host was diagnosed with autism in 2021, as her 18-year-old son Valentino has the same developmental disability.

She expressed how the diagnosis was "life-changing", reports the Mirror, and that things had finally started to "make sense. She said: "I’ve always been afraid to say it out loud because I know it seems odd and it seems different. I have to take CBD oil in conjunction to my new prescription so have the oil and also a CBD stress ball. Eating a mince pie saved my life - it led to my breast cancer diagnosis: 39-year-old mother tells how she. Melanie also told The Mirror that her book will touch on 'fame, motherhood, self-medicating and trauma,' as well as coming back from a 'huge breakdown' in the wake of her autism diagnosis.Melanie Sykes has revealed that she will be publish a tell-all book discussing the challenges she's faced since being diagnosed with autism at the age of 51. She also detailed her battle with receiving a prescription for medicinal Cannabis to help - admitting that it was 'a long time coming' after seeking advice from multiple GPs. We should all be allowed to ask for what we need, pursue what we desire and have what we want and always follow our instincts and ours alone.

For years, Melanie Sykes was a regular face on TV, in shows such as Today with Des and Mel, The Big Breakfast and The Great Pottery Throw Down. Melanie Sykes described the experience of her autism diagnosis at the age of 51 as “life-changing” and one that helped her make sense of previously unexplainable struggles she had faced. How could society collectively have got autism so wrong that I missed out on years of vital self-knowledge? Something incredible finally happened, I've been trying to get myself a prescription for medicinal Cannabis and I was finally able to get an appointment with a few GPs who agreed that medical Cannabis would help with unmasking my autism.Cathryn said: ‘As soon as I read about Melanie’s diagnosis, I admired her courage in speaking up, so it is a great privilege to be representing what promises to be an important and potentially life-changing book for so many people.

She alleges that she was often “thrown under the bus” by the TV industry, citing as an example a gameshow she and co-host Mark Wright had filmed that was cancelled as it fell foul of TV gambling rules. From this new body of work, evidence is emerging of subtle differences in how autistic traits present in males and females.

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Autistic traits appear on a spectrum, meaning that people are affected in different ways and to different degrees. As the dust settled, I found strength, certainty and pride in connecting with other autistic people. How pro-Palestine boycott movement is fuelling the fast food high street cancellation sweeping social media. It crowbars you into a certain way of thinking and being, and if you don’t fit the bill you get left behind.

Photograph: Juliet McKee Sara Gibbs, who was diagnosed as autistic at 30 and felt as though ‘a door to a world of like-minded people had been opened’. I want to talk about all the subjects that are in the book, because it has got lots and lots of different themes. When my cousin Dominique suggested, seemingly out of the blue, that I might be autistic, I laughed it off.