This is a fantastic article by Keiran Rose and Jade Farrington describing the costs to both masking and unmasking. It more closely describes my experience than anything else I’ve ever read about autistic masking. I’ve copied a few paragraphs below in italics, but I recommend the whole article if you have time, it’s quite long. Delving into the Complexities of Autistic Masking & Unmasking Safely They describe how autistic masking is much more than intentionally acting a certai

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

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

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...