I was reading an article today that described the research by Dr Damian Milton on the “ Double Empathy Problem ”as the most important memo in Autism research in decades . I've mentioned double empathy before but I don't think I explained it well so I thought I'd add this interview with Dr Milton. "In this broad-ranging interview, Dr. Milton discusses the theory of the “double empathy problem”; hyperfocus/flow state; autistic parenting; the medical versus social model of dis

This is a summary of study findings from Florence Neville, an autistic Health and Wellbeing PhD student at the University of the West of England, exploring the need for autistic people to have alone-time. "Alone-time for autistic people isn’t really talked about in academia, but I know it’s vital for my wellbeing, and lots of my autistic friends feel the same way. So I want to explore what alone-time means for other autistic people." The researcher looked at: " Reacting to

This article is from The Guardian written by Amelia Hill @byameliahill "Women from around the world describe the life-changing impact of finally receiving a diagnosis:" "There were women whose lives had been scarred by victimization, from bullying to rape, because without a diagnosis they did not know they were highly vulnerable to manipulation and abuse." "There were women who were diagnosed in their 70s, who had known there was something different about them for 60 year

There was a lengthy thread on twitter recently about autistic-specific dislike of phones. One of the replies was researcher Felicity Sedgewick who provided a link to this (free to read) paper: ‘Anything but the phone!’: Communication mode preferences in the autism community' The research explores different communication methods - face-to-face, phone call, letter, email, text message and online instant messaging, involved in different scenarios - accessing services, employmen

This article was on CTV a while ago. I think its very relevant to the other articles I've posted about double empathy and the effect on communication and social relationships. It was written by Tom Yun https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/a-unique-way-of-communicating-canadians-with-autism-share-challenges-debunk-misconceptions-about-autism-1.5387208 "Around one in 66 Canadians are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to a 2018 report from the federal government . Bu

I found this very interesting. The University of Edinburgh is doing a "Diversity in Social Intelligence" project "challenging the notion that there is only one legitimate form of human intelligence. Specifically, we explored social intelligence in autism, drawing together diverse findings to build a hypothesis that autistic social skills may be enhanced in an autism-specific cultural context: i.e. when interacting with other people on the autism spectrum." http://dart.ed.ac

This post further explores the complicated notion of low and high functioning autistic people that I posted about on March 27 "High Functioning? It depends: " and it also touches on what I was trying to say in "Are Co-occurring Conditions Part of Autism?" that I posted a few days ago, that there should be support for all autistic people as we ALL struggle. This is actually a twitter thread posted by A_Typical_Psychiatrist @AtypicalPsych whose profile identifies them as Former

This reminds me of what I wrote in my submission to CAHS Assessment on Autism although I'm not nearly as eloquent as Autistic Science...

This article was recently shared on twitter. It's a couple years old but I thought it was interesting especially when you consider the...

This was shared on the Autism Canada ASD Central Facebook group awhile ago. The beautiful reality of autism | Guy Shahar |...

A few years ago I read this article on the Art of Autism website: How Mindfulness and Meditation Have Changed My Life . Since then I've...

This article is similar to one I posted earlier entitled "Interesting theory regarding social interactions" as this one also talks about...

Unfortunately this is a condition that affects many autistic people. I think it affects me. The entire article is here...

This website has a number of autism assessments from Short Autism Quotient to Executive Skills Questionnaire and everything in between...

I wasn't aware the hashtag #AutisticElders existed until this morning along with the #AskingAutistics and of course identifying yourself...

I thought this was a fascinating article by Rachel Zamzow regarding something called Double Empathy. Very relevant to autistic adults...

This is an older entry but I thought it was very interesting and a good read even though its about children and not adults. DON'T MOURN...

Here is another great article about autism. https://neurocosmopolitanism.com/what-is-autism/ From "DR. NICK WALKER'S NOTES ON AUTISM,...

About 15 years ago I remember reading about the Japanese non-verbal autistic boy who wrote a book. One of the comments said autistic...

I recently saw this cartoon https://the-art-of-autism.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/UnderstandtheSpectrum.pdf by Rebecca Burgess from...