BLOGGING… Fionn Hamill
A LOCAL student has won an award for his online blog where he writes about his Asperger’s Syndrome.
Fionn Hamill, a 13-year-old student at St Michael’s has been blogging for over a year, and just recently found out that he had been nominated for education bloggers’ network edublogs.com.
Now in its 10th year, the award that Fionn was nominated for is ‘Best Student Blog 2013’ for his blog ‘Autistic and Proud’. On Thursday of last week, he found out that he had won.
“He has been blogging for just over a year. The blog is called “Autistic and Proud” – as Fionn is very happy with the differences his condition gives him,” explained his mother, Helen.
“He uses them as strengths when he can, and when he encounters something that is challenging; we talk it through then usually he blogs about it and sees it more clearly by doing that.
“His blog is mainly to help people see how he views life through his Asperger’s lens, and that he loves being the way he is. He blogs about his life.”
Since he started blogging, Fionn has done two radio interviews, was featured in a national newspaper – as well as being featured on national websites.
He has also been published in ‘How I learn’ by Helen Bullock, and is to be published in April by Adele Divine in ‘Colour Coding For Learners with Autism’.
Fionn himself said: “thank you, thank you, thank you. I really still can’t believe that I have won a worldwide blog award.
“I blog about myself and how it is having Asperger’s. I really just blog about things that happen to me, what I am good at, tough situations and ways I manage. I blog about St Michaels about football and friends…it is all very ordinary stuff.
“But it seems to help other people understand themselves, or parents to see that aspergers isn’t always bad, or even “specialists” to understand what it really is like.”
To read Fionn’s blog, visit: www.autisticandproud.wordpress.com.
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