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If you’re frequently at odds with the autistic person in your life, this communication difference may be why… And here’s how to overcome it.
Ashna and William are autistic teens who can speak, but the words that come or are often unreliable. They communicate more accurately by spelling to communicate via the rapid promoting method.
Trevor, a nonspeaking teen, was worried about attending his first ballgame in a stadium. He was afraid of the noise and sensory overload. Here’s how it went.
Autistic people have difficulty with being interrupted, and this is often considered to be rigidity or related to emotion regulation. The truth is complicated.
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
I don’t know why my mind races. As I sit here, uncomfortable because my stomach is in knots, and my thoughts won’t shut down. All
Jorn Bettin maps out the differences between the autistic community and broader society’s social hierarchies.
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