Illuminated: Autism & All The Things I’ve left Unsaid

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Melanie Sykes attends the Bardou Foundation International Women’s Day celebration at the Hospital Club in March 2018. It is also part of a wider trend, with an exponential rise in the number of women being newly diagnosed with autism in adulthood in the past two decades.

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.The star will also speak about “fame, motherhood, self-medicating and trauma to her breakdown and breakthrough to become a campaigner and autism advocate”.

Writing this book sometimes felt like I was performing open-heart surgery on myself but I knew how necessary it was.

Men do not talk to other men the way they speak to women because they would be in deep danger of getting punched on the nose if they did. Drug addicted father, 31, who violently shook his baby son to death while his partner was out is convicted. No escape: Desperate Brits trying to flee Gaza 'are turned away' just hours after Rafah crossing to Egypt. At the same time, she continues to edit Frank Magazine, which she launched two years ago because “women’s lives, and the quality of their lives, is extremely important to me”. Previously we weren’t visible … but with people like Mel Sykes coming out, so to speak, it gives the others courage to do the same,” she said.