The diagnosis story.
Autism as a clinical category is younger than people assume. The frame has moved repeatedly. The version in your file depends on who was writing...
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Autism as a clinical category is younger than people assume. The frame has moved repeatedly. The version in your file depends on who was writing...
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...
A letter to the younger me. The exhaustion was not moral. The seam in the sock was real. Stims were the body...
Most diagnostic tools were built on observations of boys. Why so many Autistic women are diagnosed late, after years of wrong...
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...
A meltdown is a nervous system in emergency, not a tantrum with a goal. Why the difference matters. What helps if you are...