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Autistic people tend to have spiky skill profiles. What are the pros, cons, and misconceptions surrounding this aspect of autism?

When you excel at some things and struggle with others

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AbstractIntroduction. The term neurodiversity is defined and discussed from the perspectives of neuroscience, psychology and campaigners with lived experience,

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves while broadening society’s narrow...

Chapter 11 of  NeuroTribes, In Autistic Space, tells of the advent of interaction badges (also called color communication badges) on the ANI-L list in 1995 and at the first Autreat in 1996. In 1995…

This talk was given March 18, 2016 at the Indie Ed-Tech Data Summit at Davidson College.

What the modern world has forgotten about children and learning.

Which are the best new autism books? Steve Silberman, winner of the 2015 Baillie Gifford Prize, picks the best new books on autism.

How the right accommodations helped one autistic student instantly go "from being a misunderstood, odd child with behavior problems to being a supported autistic child."

Download the checklist in this post as a printable resource! Click here to download the checklist as a Word Document. Click here to download the checklist as a PDF. Since this year’s inauguration, we’ve seen a sea of protest sweep across the U.S., from spontaneous events to carefully organized marches that have been in the … Continued

Updated Mar 22 Autism. Nearly 80 years on from the original misunderstandings in the 1940s.  So, what's changed, in research?  Almost e...

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - This study examined parental perceptions of the character traits of children with autism from early childhood to age 11. Parents...

This is a list of useful research papers and Commissioned documents that have changed how we think about autistic people, and how we respo...

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Supporting autistic people to flourish at home and beyond

Instead of focusing on the challenges facing disabled people, we should emphasize goals.

‘The irony of turning schools into therapeutic institutions when they generate so much stress and anxiety seems lost on policy-makers who express concern about children’s mental health&…

Yet on a programmatic basis, disability policy and other social programs remain enmeshed, even at their best, in accommodation models, where specific proven needs or deficits generate specific indi…

Since its initial description, the concept of autism has been firmly rooted within the conventional medical paradigm of child psychiatry. Increasingly, there have been calls from the autistic communi...

Photo: Ian Chen | Flickr / Creative Commons [image: Close-up black-and-white photo of a young East Asian child, with one finger over their lips in a position indicating “hush.”] Maxfield Sparrow unstrangemind.com When an academic writes accurately about aspects of autistic lived experience, some people grumble. “All they needed to do was ask me and I would have told them,” some will say. “We’ve known this for years but they act like it’s a shocking new revelation,” others might add. I, however, rejoice. Formal confirmation of autistic common knowledge is exactly the kind of research we need out there. I am so happy when an academic paper states the obvious (at least obvious to us autistics) because it means there is finally an information source that “the system” will respect. Do I wish people would actually listen to actual autistics? Most definitely, I do. But until we manage to shift…

Discussing the apparent similarities between autism & borderline personality disorder. Are autistic people being misdiagnosed with BPD?

Research indicates autistic people are more likely to be LGBTQ than the general population. Autistic LGBTQ people deserve the same rights, opportunities, love, and support as those who are not autistic or LGBTQ.

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In this broad-ranging interview, Dr. Milton & I discuss the theory of the “double empathy problem”; hyperfocus/flow state; autistic parenting; the medical versus social model of disability; the…