Autistic Masking is not a simple social fake. Prolonged masking has serious mental health implications for autistics; level up your knowledge so can learn to embrace your autistic loved one as their authentic self.
Autistic women often dart in and out of social situations like a butterfly going from one flower to the next. We look like we fit in, but we don’t; we look like we connect, but are left feeling alone.
B.F. Skinner stood against much of what constitutes modern ABA as it is used with autistic children. Find out why.
Alexithymia is so common among autistic people that it is commonly mistaken for autism itself. In this post, I explain what alexithymia is and how it presents itself in autism.
No one is talking about autism and addiction, so recovering addict and autistic self-advocate David Gray-Hammond is leading the charge and starting the conversation.
Biases regarding autism allow researches to start from the assumption that autistic traits are inherently negative and neurotypical traits are always positive
Autism Science is a strange little corner of research and medicine. It seems to attract a host of researchers who must have been at the
Autistic people experience emotions differently from neurotypicals, and what they experience as emotions others see as ideas. Here’s how.