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Chris Bonnello is Chris from the website and Facebook community Autistic Not Weird: former primary school teacher turned autism speaker/blogger/author. What he does is having left teaching and started Autistic Not Weird in April 2015, he has since delivered speaking engagements nationwide (including for the NHS, the National Autistic Society, mainstream/special school staff teams and students, the 2016-2020 Autism Shows, counselling teams and so on), and internationally for Autism Awareness Australia and India Autism Centre. His website, Autistic Not Weird, has received over 2,500,000 page hits and nearly 130,000 Facebook followers (at time of writing), while the “Underdogs” series, endorsed by Steve Silberman and Michael Grant (and positively reviewed by The Guardian!), is two books through its series so far, with a third in its pre-order stage. Before Patreon, this was all achieved during his spare time- in spite of him being occupied by three jobs, a masters degree, captaincy of his local Boys’ Brigade, and various offline commitments to people he loves. Now, thanks to his supporters, he has been able to quit a job and devote whole working days per week to writing for Autistic Not Weird as an educational site and a supportive community.

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