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My colleagues and I recently did something scary.

For the past few years, we built the Neurodiversity Pathways program at Goodwill of Silicon Valley. I worked as a consultant, and my colleagues Ranga Jayaraman (the father of an autistic adult son), and Khushboo Chabria (an ADHD woman) served as full-time employees. To...


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Just like red and blue overlap, intersect, and interact in a tie-dye t-shirt to make unique color combinations, Autistic and ADHD traits combine to create AuDHD.

It has been possible to diagnose both autism and ADHD together in the same person since 2013 (under the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition). However, it wasn’t until 2022 that...


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It’s hard to believe we have been covering INSAR, the annual meeting of the International Society for Autism Research, for fifteen years. The autism research landscape, being expansive and varied, both has and has… not evolved during that stretch to focus on the needs of existing autistic people, and their families. (It should be noted that our own a...


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Autistic author, journalist, lawyer, and professor Katie Rose Guest Pryal is an invaluable autism parenting and neurodivergent self-advocacy resource, with several books plus a


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Safe Foods

The English muffin has to be toasted evenly.
Not too dark on the edges, not pale in the center.
I clean the toaster before I use it. Every time.
The jelly is homemade. Smooth. No seeds.

These foods are not boring to me.
They are the reason I can sit at a table at all.

People think this is about preference.
It isn’t.

I grew up in a Midw...


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