I am a Professor at a British university. I am also autistic, having been diagnosed aged 60. I completed the 2020 National Autistic Society's '7k for 700k' challenge in order to support autistic adults. However, I did it in my own way. You can read the NAS interview with me which explains how I came up with the idea of spectrum walks. Please sponsor me. This picture shows me getting ready to go out on one of the walks, armed with a camera and wearing my NAS t-shirt!
Between March 30th and April 5th I did seven 1 kilometre walks, each directed by a different colour of the autism spectrum. On each walk I found and photographed as many appropriately coloured things as possible.
The lockdown meant that I had to make a couple of changes. The original idea was to do the walks at a different place each day while travelling along the canal in a narrowboat, but that was impossible. I therefore included photographs taken inside the house. However, I still walked the 1K outside each day as my approved exercise.
I recorded the distances using a pedomoter app. Here are the screenshots to prove that I did the walks.