Hello! :D

I'm Kirstie, the Under 13 Community Manager at SG. I'm autistic and ADHD and I live in Cheshire :)

Random Stuff About Me:

  • I like sci-fi, anime, cake and nature.

  • Some of my fave animals are frogs, sea slugs, corvids and tardigrades!

  • I enjoy writing, editing, web design and being creative.

  • Some of my fave video games are Fallout 3, The Sims 4, and most Pokemon and Zelda games!

  • I have worked for SG for almost 3 years and started off as a volunteer before becoming a Community Manager.

  • I used to run a Home Ed Computing Club and have qualifications from the Raspberry Pi Foundation to teach programming and Computer Science at Primary level - Scratch, Micro:bit, Raspberry Pi, HTML etc.

  • I have had a random assortment of jobs before working at SG, including working in Education, Content Creation, Nutrition & Wellbeing, Customer Service and also ran my own business as a Seamstress! :)

  • I once made a short film that was shown on BBC2.

  • I met Terry Pratchett once and he let me touch his hat.

Stuff I Don't Like:

  • Mornings!

  • Small Talk

  • Cucumber >:(

Stuff I am Passionate About/ Interested in:

  • Mental health and wellbeing, especially suicide prevention.

  • PMDD awareness and treatment.

  • Home Education as a first choice and Self-Directed Education.

  • Neuroscience, especially neurodiversity and how ND brains work.

  • Pokemon :)