What if autistics were the majority and your child were suspected to be neurotypical? How would the diagnostic process look inside a family?
I consider myself a person of integrity, someone who always tries to do the right thing, sometimes taking agonising and soul-searching mental paths just to
Dr. Joel Schwartz, PsyD, provides a glimpse into the creative chaos of the ADHD brain as he reflects on society’s treatment of neurodiversity & the ND movement.
I was assigned An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon for my sci-fi class last semester. Within a few pages of beginning to read, I
Aspergian contributors offer advice on how to deal with your autistic tween’s explosive emotions.
The bitter irony of his dressing in black was not lost on me. He smiled a hopeful smile, before walking into the “job interview practice”
Biases regarding autism allow researches to start from the assumption that autistic traits are inherently negative and neurotypical traits are always positive
On April 24, 2019, SpectrumNews.org aired an article that garnered a lot of scrutiny. Since that date, it has remained pinned to the front page of the website like a proverbial line drawn in the sand…
What is Alexithymia? Derived from the Greek meaning literally “no words for emotions,” Alexithymia is a construct or set of traits describing the inability to
On why self-diagnosis is valid and how to accept yourself as belonging to the autistic community (Part 2 of 2).
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