“If I am trying to make eye contact, words go out the window. They make no sense. Ditto if there’s a lot of background noise, or if I’m busily trying to type out a response on my AAC.”
Sienna is a young Autistic adult writing to Autistic teens. In this beautiful letter, Sienna encourages teens to understand and embrace themselves unapologetically.
Jude Olubodun pens a powerful letter to autistic teens validating that they deserve respect, boundaries, bodily autonomy, and love in a society that is inherently harmful for those who are different.
Autistic researcher Emma Reardon discusses reasons autistic people may be overwhelmed by the holiday season and how you can better understand and accommodate your autistic loved ones.
Autistic and non-autistic people have identities that are constructed differently. Values are not opinions to autistic people. They are central to autistic core identity.
Autistic people create analogies to relate, to solve problems, and to relieve stress. It’s related to their identity, neurology, values, and pattern recognition— NOT deficits in theory of mind.
Wolfheart Sanchez talks about the sensory hell of a doctor’s office and the multiple concurrent tracks that play through an overstimulated autistic person’s brain.
With cheeky humor and an easy conversational style, Bee discusses the stresses autistic people experience during the gift-giving holiday season.
Autism Speaks proved Autistic people right, on accident, with a new screening instrument they’re advertising.
Terra Vance posits that Autistic people experience empathy and emotions differently because the way autistic identity is structured differs from non-autistic people’s identity constructs.
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