Believe in us! Please don’t assess our potential based entirely on our outward behavior or what we may not be able to say verbally.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
"I have to be realistic about the community I am nurturing in, for my children & for the parents that I help, as a Black autistic woman."| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Parents should tell their children they are autistic in ways that help them understand and feel good about who they are.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Our senior editor spoke at UC Davis's 2021 Neurodiversity Summit, on including autistic people with intellectual & communication disabilities.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Autistic people are a vulnerable community, and as stakeholders in the Spectrum 10K debate, we deserve full and transparent engagement.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
What if the "preventing autism diagnoses" headlines had read, “Autism doesn’t have to be a problem if children are understood and supported”?| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
"I'm not sure the real leverage in avoiding autistic burnout resides with the autistic person alone."| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
We talked with Dr. Meng-Chuan Lai about the overlap of mental health & autism, & the evidence-backed tendency of autistic people to be LGBT.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
If you separate ABA therapy from reward and punishment, you don't have any ABA left because the entire structure of ABA is based on that.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
RFK Jr. went full "useless eaters" on autistics—& Profound Autism parents are thrilled. Here's why "profound autism" is harmful, not helpful.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he would find the cause of autism in five months and “eliminate those exposures.” This is pseudoscience.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
It's important to avoid infantilising your teen or adult autistic offspring, meaning treating them as though they will always be a child.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Why autistic play (solitary, stimmy, etc.) is not "wrong," and can have an important function in supporting relaxation and recuperation.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
