If you walk into any autistic group, almost everyone in the group understands what it means to go into autistic shutdown or meltdown states. Even if they don’t know the proper words or terminology for ...

When I began working with autistic adults, there was only one book I could find on the topic. It held a very narrow perspective on what autistic adults needed. Over the last 10 years, autism advocates ...

The first time my youngest son headbanged, he was about 3 years old. He flung his head back so hard, I heard it thud from the other room. I panicked — rushed to him, felt the back of his head for a ...