THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM

Kaligirwa is a noted autistic autism scholar and advocate. They recently had their advocacy and motives challenged after they asked an autism diagnosis and resources company, Embrace Autism, whether it was behaving unethically in coaching people on how to take an online autism screening test. We wanted to know more, and so we talked with Kaligirwa about the incident and it...

My colleagues and I recently did something scary.

For the past few years, we built the Neurodiversity Pathways program at Goodwill of Silicon Valley. I worked as a consultant, and my colleagues Ranga Jayaraman (the father of an autistic adult son), and Khushboo Chabria (an ADHD woman) served as full-time employees. To...

Just like red and blue overlap, intersect, and interact in a tie-dye t-shirt to make unique color combinations, Autistic and ADHD traits combine to create AuDHD.

It has been possible to diagnose both autism and ADHD together in the same person since 2013 (under the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition). However, it wasn’t until 2022 that...

It’s hard to believe we have been covering INSAR, the annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research, for fifteen years. The autism research landscape, being expansive and varied, both has and has… not evolved during that stretch to focus on the needs of existing autistic people, and their families. (It should be noted that our own a...

Autistic author, journalist, lawyer, and professor Katie Rose Guest Pryal is an invaluable autism parenting and neurodivergent self-advocacy resource, with several books plus a