About this Webinar

“The Multi-Layered Experience of Being Me”Sofia will be speaking about her core beliefs that manifested from a lifetime of challenges being neurodivergent, Brown, female and Muslim.

• I Don’t Fit In- Culture clashes
• It’s Not Fair- discrimination on multiple levels
• I Am Not Enough- struggling with self worth.

We Hope that You Can Join Us

More About Our Speaker:

Sofia is a late diagnosed AuDHD Scottish born daughter of Pakistani migrant family. She cofounded Scottish Ethnic Minority Autistics (SEMA) on the back of the lack of support understanding and acceptance of Autistic People of Colour. SEMA aims to improve services in Scotland so that the lives of Autistics from racialised minority groups can lead better lives. Some of the work that they have been involved in can be found at www.sema.scot

Important Information – Please Read

Who is this webinar for?

SWAN webinars are safer, autistic-led and autistic-only spaces for all autistic women and non-binary people.

SWAN is inclusive of all autistic women non-binary people, including those who are exploring if they are autistic, who self identify as autistic or are clinically diagnosed (private or NHS)

SWAN webinars are for over-18s who are living, studying or working in Scotland.

If these descriptions do not match you, we ask that you do not attend our webinars unless they are specifically stated to be open to non-autistic individuals.

Visit our website for details of all SWAN events and activities: swanscotland.org

Accessibility

We aim to make our webinars as accessible as possible. You are free to participate as little or as much as you feel comfortable – talk, join in the text chat, stim, bring your pets along, or just watch and listen with your camera on or off.

We currently use Eventbrite and Zoom as tools to enable us to run these online groups. They do have pros and cons and can be a bit stressful to navigate sometimes, so please allow yourself plenty time to get logged in before the group starts – it’s fine to join a bit early as you’ll just see a virtual ‘waiting room’ screen until the group starts and the host lets everyone in at once.

When registering to attend, please do use the name you feel most comfortable – this does not need to match your ID or other documents.

Remember to check when joining the meeting that your zoom screen name also matches the name you wish to use in the group. You have control to change that to the name you want and also to add your pronouns if you want to – you can change this in your zoom account settings any time and you can also edit while you are in the waiting room before the meeting starts (or during the meeting).

Closed Captions are available in all meetings and you can control whether you want see them or not during the meeting.

If you have any questions or need any help accessing this online session, please get in touch: info@swanscotland.org