
Autism and Gender
Grasping the unique relationship between autistic people and their genders is an essential component of understanding the autistic experience.
Grasping the unique relationship between autistic people and their genders is an essential component of understanding the autistic experience.
Children are people, not property.
Being a late diagnosed Autistic can be really hard. When I get sad pondering it, there is one stanza from Supertramp that seems to best sum up what I feel, and help me work through it.
Autistic social motivation is deeply rooted in the desire to share knowledge and in the desire to learn, and this has big implications for the
What exactly is executive (dys)function, and what does it look like in everyday life? A hopeful exploration for autistics and ADHDers.
“We have now arrived at the ultimate falsehood of high-functioning autism: what this label really means is that you have high outside functioning. I am excellent at pretending to be someone I am not.”
When Greta Thunberg began to take the stage as an autistic climate change activist, the world took notice. My reaction was one of powerful pride, not just as an autistic adult, but as a former autistic girl. Here was an articulate, passionate, brilliant girl unfocused on fame and fashion, who wasn’t going to let the weight of the NT world crush her or keep her from speaking out!
Be yourself… What does that mean? How do you know when you are not yourself? What are the steps you can take to be yourself?
Gee didn’t know she was transgender for most of her life. Here are the signs she missed.
Miscommunication and misinterpretation of autistic people happens very early in life. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Or in modern
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