Autism and sleep. Why the night is loud.
Sixty to eighty per cent of Autistic people sleep poorly. The reasons sit across sensory, circadian, and cognitive layers. Generic sleep advice often misses...
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Sixty to eighty per cent of Autistic people sleep poorly. The reasons sit across sensory, circadian, and cognitive layers. Generic sleep advice often misses...
A SPIN is not a hobby. Not a phase. Not restricted interest. It is a mode of engagement that produces our best work and most of our...
We are allowed to be happy. Joy is not a distraction from the work. It is the reason for the work. The joys...
Autistic thinking described in its own terms. Bottom-up. Associative. Hyperfocused. Literal. Pattern-seeking. Not the negative space of someone else's...
The week I went into burnout I sat on the floor for an hour because I could not work out what to eat. The collapse was a system going...
Unmasking is not one act. It is years of small choices about which parts of yourself you will stop hiding, in which...
Masking is the work of pretending to be a non-Autistic person. The eye contact you maintain, the voice you modulate, the laugh on...
The world arrives at us differently. Not more, not less. The fluorescent light, the seam in the sock, the perfume three rows...
A shutdown is the nervous system going quiet from the inside. Why it gets missed, why it can be worse than a meltdown, what...