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Photo of a white woman with black hair in a ponytail screaming wrapped in kite thread

Photo of a white woman with black hair in a ponytail screaming wrapped in kite thread

The Beginning of Spring and My Sensory Overload

September is my autistic nightmare in Chile

Annika Hotta in Fourth Wave

A few shiny pink and red heart-shaped decorations hanging down by a string. The one in focus is a large pink heart with two cutouts of a thin heart and the central heart weaving in and out. The lighting is moody and romantic.

A few shiny pink and red heart-shaped decorations hanging down by a string. The one in focus is a large pink heart with two cutouts of a thin heart and the central heart weaving in and out. The lighting is moody and romantic.

WOMEN

Love On the Spectrum: What Dating Was Really Like As An Autistic Person

Amy Sterling Casil in Fourth Wave

Growing Up As a Girl Child In America: Part 11

A painfully shy member of the gifted program struggling…

Catherine Oceano in Fourth Wave

A train track wends through brush and trees. The sky is blue with clouds above it

A train track wends through brush and trees. The sky is blue with clouds above it

Diagnoses Do Not Define Us

We each have particular strengths and skills

Annika Hotta in Fourth Wave

I’ve Spent My Life Being Jealous of Other Women

A retrospective on female envy as an autistic woman

Annika Hotta in Fourth Wave

A pregnant woman posing demurely on the beach. She is a woman of Latinx or Asian descent with shoulder-length black wavy hair and red lipstick. She is wearing a bikini with a white top, black bottoms, and a crochet-looking wrap over top. There are rocks and an oceanside fjord in the background.

A pregnant woman posing demurely on the beach. She is a woman of Latinx or Asian descent with shoulder-length black wavy hair and red lipstick. She is wearing a bikini with a white top, black bottoms, and a crochet-looking wrap over top. There are rocks and an oceanside fjord in the background.

WOMEN

I Can’t Decide on Having Kids

Why that scares me as a neurodivergent person

Isabella Neuro-Spicy in Fourth Wave

Is There Really a Difference Between Male and Female Autism?

How the media portrays autistic girls vs autistic boys

Jillian Enright in Fourth Wave

Stop Recommending Behaviour Therapies

The definition of “success” in these programs is compliance

Jillian Enright in Fourth Wave

The “Gold Standard” for Autistic Children

So many Autistic people explain how and why ABA is abusive…

Jillian Enright in Fourth Wave

Yes, ADHD is Genetic

And no, ADHD is not caused by trauma

June 2023 update