Why this channel exists

There's a lot of autism content. Much of it is written about autistic people rather than for them, and a lot of what's written for them is so careful not to upset anyone that it stops containing information.

This channel tries to sit in the awkward middle: accurate about the research, honest about the difficulty, and useful on an ordinary Wednesday.

The rules

• No cure framing. Not because it's impolite — because it produces bad advice.
• No inspiration. Nobody's day is a lesson for somebody else.
• Research reported with its limits. Sample size, who was actually studied, what the finding doesn't cover. Autism research has a long history of generalising from a narrow slice.
• Hard things said as hard. Burnout, shutdown, loss of speech, the cost of masking. Softening those helps nobody who's actually in one.
• Corrections published. Always.

Accessibility

This site is deliberately quiet. No animation you didn't ask for, no autoplay, no pop-ups, no interstitials, no tracking. It honours your system's light/dark and reduced-motion preferences, works at large text sizes, and is fully keyboard navigable.

If any of that fails for you, it's a bug worth reporting, and it gets fixed before new features do.

Get in touch

[email protected]. Corrections, accessibility problems, and "this doesn't match my experience" are all welcome — the last one especially.

Part of something bigger

Living on the Spectrum is one of four channels under Divergent Futures.