ObjectivesResearch has increasingly focused on neurodivergent individuals’ acceptance of their diagnosis and the extent to which they engage in masking behav...

Popular opinion says that autism is a burden to society and to families. What does it mean to hear over and over that you worsen the lives of the people you love most?

Autism prevalence is observed through systems that see some people clearly, some people late, and some people not at all.

What is it really like to be autistic? Here’s my story, available to help writers, loved ones, questioning people, and others.

To date, only one behavior analytic study has systematically examined the use of functional analysis to assess arranging and ordering, which is a form of higher level restricted and repetitive behavi...

Autistic young people often struggle to cope with the daily demands of school and are likelier to experience poorer wellbeing and educational outcomes than thei...

Executive function is a group of skills including planning, inhibition and switching between tasks. Autistic people report struggling quite a lot with these skills. But, when researchers test these…

Chrystyna Chymera-Holloway is our charity’s Assistant Director of External Affairs. In this blog, she discusses the reality behind recent headlines and why reasonable adjustments can make a massive di...

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The idea that autistic people lack a ‘theory of mind’ has shaped ASD research for 40 years. The evidence never supported it – and it’s time to move on.