The label "Profound autism" bungles the support needs of autistic people with complex disabilities, and will endanger autistic lives.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Jenny Mai Phan is an Asian American autistic autism researcher, an IACC member, and the mother of four children—two of whom are autistic.| 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
AutINSAR is a much-needed discussion between autistic people and autism researchers about priorities in autism research.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
TC Waisman says, "When I show up in a room, I'm Black first. That's what people see. They don’t see the invisible disabilities right away."| 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
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