Why inclusive mental health care needs to hold the whole person. There’s something I come back to often in my work. People don’t experience their identity in separate boxes. You’re not autistic in one part of your life, and LGBTQIA+ in another, and struggling with your mental health somewhere else entirely. It’s all connected. And yet, the way support is often designed doesn’t reflect that. The overlap between autism and LGBTQIA+ identity There is a strong and well-recognised