The short version

What this is: writing and video about autism, aimed at being accurate and useful at the same time.

Who it's for: autistic adults, people who suspect they might be, and the parents, partners and colleagues who want to understand rather than manage.

What it isn't: medical advice, a diagnosis, or a treatment plan. Nothing here replaces talking to a professional who knows your situation.

How to read it

• Posts marked research go through a study and say plainly what it found and what it didn't.
• Posts marked day-to-day are about the lived side — sensory load, energy, routines, work.
• Posts marked practical are things you can actually use: scripts, accommodations, ways to ask.

The stance

Autism is a difference in how a brain is built, not a disease that arrived later. That framing isn't a slogan here — it changes what questions are worth asking. "How do we make this person less autistic" is a bad question. "What is this person's actual load, and what would take some of it off" is a good one.

That said: difference and difficulty are not opposites. Plenty of autistic experience is genuinely hard, and pretending otherwise to stay positive helps nobody. Both things get said here.

Language

Identity-first language ("autistic person") is used by default, because that's what most autistic adults prefer. If you prefer person-first, that is entirely fine and no correction is implied.

If something's wrong

Corrections get published, not quietly edited. If a study is misrepresented or a claim is out of date, saying so is a favour — [email protected].