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Autistic joy.

Autistic joy.

We are allowed to be happy. Joy is not a distraction from the work. It is the reason for the work. The joys...

Why pride.

Why pride.

Why we use the word pride and not awareness. The political meaning of the choice. Why the analogy with the gay rights movement...

AuDHD. The double rainbow.

AuDHD. The double rainbow.

Many of us are both Autistic and ADHD. The double rainbow. Routine and novelty in the same body. Not a contradiction. The...

Autism is a disability. We are not afraid of that word.

Autism is a disability. We are not afraid of that word.

Autism is a disability. We are not afraid of that word. The legal frame is how we get adjustments, access, the NDIS, the right to challenge...

How we think. And why it matters.

How we think. And why it matters.

Autistic thinking described in its own terms. Bottom-up. Associative. Hyperfocused. Literal. Pattern-seeking. Not the negative space of someone else's...

On identity-first language.

On identity-first language.

We say Autistic person, not person with autism. The preference is not cosmetic. It is political, and the community has been clear for a long...

We are not a disorder. We are a way of being human.

We are not a disorder. We are a way of being human.

The clinical world still calls it Autism Spectrum Disorder. We do not. The word disorder is a claim about us, made without...

The diagnosis story.

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...

Autistic burnout is not a personal failing.

Autistic burnout is not a personal failing.

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...