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Every Harry Specters box begins in our Ely factory, where chocolates are made, checked, de-moulded, packed and prepared by people with different roles and strengths. The finished chocolate matters first. The workplace behind it matters too. Harry Specters was founded...

Interoception is your inner body sense - the system that helps you notice what’s happening inside you, like hunger, thirst, needing the toilet, feeling hot or cold, or a racing heart. Most of us rely on interoception all day without...

Routine can sound boring to some people. For many autistic people, it’s the opposite - routine is what makes life feel manageable. A routine isn’t about being rigid for the sake of it. It’s a way of creating predictability in...

Burnout can happen to anyone. When life asks too much for too long, something has to give. Autistic burnout is often described as a particular kind of crash that can happen when an autistic person is living with ongoing, cumulative...

Masking is one of those topics that many autistic people recognise instantly, even if they’ve never had a word for it. In simple terms, autism masking (sometimes called camouflaging) is when an autistic person hides or suppresses autistic traits in...

I’m an Operations Executive at Harry Specters, but around the team I’m affectionately known as the “Office Octopus” because I have a hand in just about everything (except the chocolate making… although I have decorated a few in the past)....