THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM

In another life, author Laura Richmond might have been a medieval vowess—but in this one she is a writer, parent, and autism and mental health advocate. She writes for The Daily Tism, and her book is All My Worldly Joy. We talked with Laura about being misunderstood for much of her life before her adult autism diagnosis. We also talked about her book, and her comedy w...

Kaligirwa is a noted autistic autism scholar and advocate. They recently had their advocacy and motives challenged after they asked an autism diagnosis and resources company, Embrace Autism, whether it was behaving unethically in coaching people on how to take an online autism screening test. We wanted to know more, and so we talked with Kaligirwa about the incident and it...

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...