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Stimming Is Not a Problem to Fix Stimming — short for self-stimulatory behavior — refers to repetitive physical movements, sounds, or sensory engagement that neurodivergent people use to regulate thei...
Read article →Needing Routine and Being Unable to Follow One Most productivity advice starts with the same premise: build a routine, stick to it, and everything else falls into place. For people with AuDHD — the co...
Read article →The Neurodivergent Tax on Friendships Maintaining friendships requires a consistent expenditure of social and cognitive resources: remembering details about other people's lives, tracking the implicit...
Read article →When Impulsivity and Rigidity Collide Executive function is the set of cognitive processes that manage goal-directed behavior — planning, initiating tasks, switching between activities, holding inform...
Read article →The Important Difference In AuDHD discussions, hyperfocus and special interests often get conflated. Both involve intense engagement with a topic or activity. Both can last for hours. Both are frequen...
Read article →When You're Performing Two Sets of Scripts at Once Masking is the practice of suppressing or camouflaging neurodivergent traits to appear more neurotypical. Most people who do it didn't make a conscio...
Read article →The Double Challenge Emotional regulation — the ability to modulate emotional responses to match the situation — is one of the most demanding cognitive tasks human beings perform. It requires recogniz...
Read article →When Both Conditions Amplify Each Other Sensory overload is a familiar concept for autistic people — the point at which sensory input exceeds what the nervous system can process without distress. Brig...
Read article →ABA Therapy Controversy — What Autistic Adults Want You to Know Applied Behavior Analysis is the most widely prescribed intervention for autism in the United States and remains the standard recommenda...
Read article →Two Sets of Challenges Nobody Prepared You For Every relationship requires accommodation — of different schedules, different moods, different ways of communicating. But when one or both partners have...
Read article →Why It Takes So Long to Get Both Getting diagnosed with one neurodevelopmental condition is difficult enough. Getting diagnosed with two — especially when those two are autism and ADHD, which overlap...
Read article →Autism Acceptance vs Autism Awareness — Why the Difference Matters April has for decades been designated Autism Awareness Month, and awareness campaigns have produced recognizable imagery: blue puzzle...
Read article →Autism and Eye Contact — Why It Is Painful Not Rude Eye contact is one of the first things people notice when interacting with an autistic person. The gaze that lands briefly and then moves away, the...
Read article →Autism and Diagnosis in Adulthood — When the Puzzle Pieces Finally Fit There is a particular experience that many autistic adults who receive late diagnoses describe. It is not a simple emotion. It is...
Read article →AuDHD — When ADHD and Autism Contradict Each Other Inside Your Brain AuDHD is shorthand for the experience of being both autistic and ADHD. It is not a separate diagnosis — it is the lived reality of...
Read article →Autism and Employment — Why the Modern Workplace Is Hostile to Autistic Brains The modern workplace has evolved in a direction that is, almost systematically, difficult for autistic people to navigate...
Read article →Autism and Routine — Why Change Feels Like a Physical Threat Telling an autistic person that something has changed at the last minute is not a neutral act. The distress that follows is not disproporti...
Read article →Autism and Anxiety — The Comorbidity That Runs the Show If you want to understand why a given autistic person is struggling on a particular day, the answer is frequently not the autism itself — it is...
Read article →Why Small Talk Is Torture for Autistic People and What to Do Instead Small talk is such an embedded feature of social life that most neurotypical people rarely think about what it is actually doing. T...
Read article →Autism and Sensory Processing — When the World Is Too Loud The world is not built for autistic sensory systems. It is built for a median range of sensory tolerance that autistic people frequently sit...
Read article →Autism and Friendship — What Connection Looks Like When You Are Autistic The narrative that autistic people do not want friends is one of the most persistent and damaging myths in the public understan...
Read article →Autism and Food — Why Picky Eating Is Really Sensory Processing The phrase "picky eater" carries a particular set of assumptions — willfulness, preference, the stubbornness of someone who could eat mo...
Read article →Autistic Meltdown vs Tantrum — Stop Confusing Them Parents, teachers, and even some clinicians still mix these two up, and that confusion has real consequences. A child in the middle of a meltdown who...
Read article →The Double Empathy Problem — Autistic People Aren't Less Empathetic For decades, the dominant explanation for why autistic people struggle in social situations was a deficit in empathy. The theory was...
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