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There is some confusion about what neurodiversity-affirming assessment actually looks like in the real world. Some people worry that affirming care means rubber-stamping whatever someone already thinks, while others worry that differential diagnosis—a systematic process used to identify the most accurate condition(s) (or neurotype) from a set of possible competing conditions ...


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In retrospect, it’s so obvious that I was autistic when I was a kid. But because I was a little girl in the ’70s and ’80s, no one picked up on the fact; they just called me “weird” and “intense” and “emotional” and “too sensitive,” among other unpleasant things.

I was


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For months, people have asked my opinion on the popular Telepathy Tapes podcast, and its premise of non-speaking autistics not only reading minds but bringing the world messages of love and peace. (You’ve probably been asked about it, too, if you have even a tangential autism connection.) And I’m here to tell you: The Telepathy Tapes is a hot, compli...


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It is still incomprehensible that we lost Steve Silberman more than a year ago. While got it together well enough to speak at his memorial service,  it has taken me until now to be able to share my tribute to him, from that ceremony.

For those who didn’t know Steve, please read his compassionate history of autism,


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