One of our friends at OxFizz works for Healthtalkonline, and they run a fantastic service called Youthhealthtalk, which deals issues such as teenage cancer, teenage depression, diabetes, and autism. The impact the charity has can be encapsulated below in a quote from Mel, mother of a 3 year old autistic boy:

“A lot of autism websites are full of fact sheets and information, but here you have people talking and I’m sitting here laughing because someone’s saying exactly what I say about my son. It’s a lot more reassuring than a fact sheet. Here you have a variety of different people talking about different aspects of autism, so you can laugh at the bits that make you laugh and cry at the bits that make you cry. You can read words on a page, but to have those people talking to you makes it more familiar. It comes to life and you sit back and think, ‘actually, I’m not the only one’”

Do check out their website!