Even the Spectrum Critters have to deal with the expectations of masking sometimes, but it doesn’t change who they are! You are perfect just the way you are, too.
After a poorly-timed meltdown at a wedding, Jude Clee thinks about what she wished people understood about meltdowns.
Listening to the wrong people can have a devastating impact on the Autistic community. The right organizations can push us into a more inclusive and accepting future for Autistic children.
“It turns out that there are ways for me to be the one giving myself orders instead. Harnessing the energy of automatic obedience can, on a good day, transform chronic catatonia from a weakness into a strength.”
In order for non-Autistic people to communicate effectively with Autistics, they have to adjust to our passion, our authenticity, and our need for room to express ourselves in our language.
…also be out of synch with their felt emotions – which may be out of synch with the speed they are processing information. Sensory processing differences may mean the autistic…
An autistic mother’s autism diagnosis empowered her to stop trying to make herself and her children “normal” and to embrace being natural system disruptors.
To understand autistic fears and phobias, non-autistic people need more context. This article can help non-autistic people support autistic children and adults through what may seem to be unreasonable fears.
Food aversion is about more than just being a “picky eater” for many autistic people. The task can be overwhelming for more reasons that taste and texture.
Christine Condo on how the experience of being autistic is like being locked out of a glass room that she can see inside but can never enter.
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