There is little comprehensive research into autistic adulthood, and even less into the
services and supports that are most likely to foster flourishing adult autistic lives. This limited …

Mental health challenges impede the well-being of autistic people. This Review outlines
contributing neurodevelopmental and physical health conditions, rates and developmental …

This paper presents the concepts of “neurodiversity” and the “neurodiversity approaches”
towards disability and discusses how confusion regarding the meaning of these concepts …

The growth of autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement has brought about
new ethical, theoretical and ideological debates within autism theory, research and practice …

Controversies regarding the neurodiversity movement may be exacerbated by confusion
over its meaning. For example, some suggest neurodiversity entails acceptance of the social …

Heta Pukki, MEd, MSc, 1 Jorn Bettin, 2 Avery Grey Outlaw, 3 Joshua Hennessy, MA, 4 Kabie
Brook, 4 Martijn Dekker, 5 Mary Doherty, MB ChB FCARCSI, 6 Sebastian CK Shaw, BM BS …

Background: There is considerable conceptual overlap between Autistic hyperfocus and
flow, yet these phenomena have seldom been associated in the literature. Moreover, no …

Studies are emerging documenting the experience of fatigue, exhaustion and loss of
functioning that has long been described by autistic adults as autistic burnout. New …

The ontological status of autism has been a subject of considerable debate and
philosophical approaches of it have been recent and sparse. On the one hand, from its …

Introduction: Burnout, inertia, meltdown, and shutdown (BIMS) have been identified as
important parts of some autistic people's lives. This study builds on our previous work that …