Three things pulling me in different directions, like the most complicated tug o' war ever.

Some of you are excellent at following pronoun use.

A lot of medical professionals are skeptical of the self-identified/self-diagnosed autistic person. But the autistic community is not.

In thinking about the evolution of the diagnosis of autism, it's instructional to look at another group of people, the LGBTQ+ community.

The current diagnostic criteria for autism suck for a bunch of reasons. Here are a few.

Let's break down our approach to the diagnosis of autism, so we can think about how we diagnose and who benefits from the current system.

As I've said before, sensory needs are often the driving force behind a lot of children’s behavior issues, starting very early in life. ...

It's absolutely critical that sensory sensitivities be acknowledged and honored.

sensory needs are often the driving force behind a lot of children’s behavior issues, starting very early in life.

To understand sensory needs, we have to understand sensory processing functions and how they drive our behavior.

Unfortunately, some parents are reading this many years into a long-standing pattern of meltdowns.

No matter how fantastic you are at preventing meltdowns, they will happen sometimes.

Let’s look at meltdown triggers because this is where you have the most power to prevent meltdowns.

For all of our talk about neurodivergence-affirming therapy for autistic children, parents often find that techniques used by their child's

You can’t prevent something you don’t understand. So understanding the nature of meltdowns and their causes is essential to managing them.

Meltdowns are a common and deeply misunderstood human behavior.

Food is not a reward. Read it again. Food is not a reward.

Masking is one of the most common and most misunderstood neurodivergent behaviors. And I think it’s best taught by example.

When a child is struggling, therapies are often the best way to resolve the barriers blocking them from success. But which therapy is the...

I get a lot of questions about social… stuff, for lack of a better word. The common thread? They’re being rude.