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Jul 317 min read

Written Submission for Pre-Budget Consultations - National Autism Strategy - for Federal Budget 2025

Here is a copy of the brief I submitted: Written Submission for Pre-Budget Consultations for Federal Budget 2025 By: True Taylor July...

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Oct 13, 20228 min read

How to Recognize When Patients are Autistic, because 1 in 5 are! Advice from a UK Psychiatrist.

This is a very interesting/insightful thread I copied from Twitter before the storm, in the 'how does this total stranger know so much...

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Sep 9, 20223 min read

The adults who discovered they were autistic – after their child was diagnosed.

This article from The Guardian is about the UK but I'm sure this happens in Canada as well, maybe not as much because I think its more...

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Aug 19, 20223 min read

What the heck is a 'spiky profile?'

Autistic spiky profiles and positivity! is about something called "spiky profiles" which is a term I was not familiar with but according...

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Aug 19, 20222 min read

Are Co-occurring Conditions Part of Autism?

This article was recently shared on twitter. Are Co-occurring Conditions Part of Autism? This was written by Max Sparrow It's a couple...

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Mar 21, 20224 min read

The Most Important Memo in Autism Research in Decades

I was reading an article today that described the research by Dr Damian Milton on the “Double Empathy Problem”as the most important memo...

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Feb 27, 20222 min read

Reacting, Retreating, Regulating and Reconnecting

This is a summary of study findings from Florence Neville, an autistic Health and Wellbeing PhD student at the University of the West of...

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Jan 16, 20223 min read

‘Anything but the phone!’: Communication mode preferences in the autism community

There was a lengthy thread on twitter recently about autistic-specific dislike of phones. One of the replies was researcher Felicity...

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Dec 24, 20214 min read

'A unique way of communicating': Canadians with autism share challenges, debunk misconceptions

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...

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Dec 24, 20213 min read

Diversity in Social Intelligence

I found this very interesting. The University of Edinburgh is doing a "Diversity in Social Intelligence" project "challenging the...

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Dec 11, 20215 min read

The MYTH of #HighFunctioningAutism

This post further explores the complicated notion of low and high functioning autistic people that I posted about on March 27 "High...

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Aug 30, 20216 min read

Interesting theory regarding social interactions:

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

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Jun 15, 20218 min read

Don't Mourn For Us

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...

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Apr 2, 20212 min read

What is Autism? #2

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

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