This Little Mask-Erade Is Over
aspieaspired
October 12, 2018
One woman tells of her lifelong journey to mask her true identity and the process of allowing herself to take off the mask and be her authentic self.
Masking
A Man Unmasked
Terra Vance
September 13, 2018
For people on the spectrum, how well someone fares in the general public or on the job often depends on someone’s ability to hide his
What Autism Means to Me
bneal89
September 13, 2018
For as long as I can remember, I have been considered odd. Not the sort of odd that makes me unlikable, but the type of
Asperger’s and Empathy: Shifting Away from Dated Misconceptions
Terra Vance
September 11, 2018
One of the dominant characterizations of people on the autism spectrum is that they lack empathy or are empathy-disrupted. This is based on the paradigm
Why Adult Autistics Aren’t Being Diagnosed: A Human Rights Crisis
Terra Vance
September 11, 2018
How does one make it into adulthood without knowing they are autistic? Or that an autistic community even exists? What if that person is an expert on autism?