Parenting
Raising an autistic child, neurodiversity-affirming.
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The cluster nobody maps for parents: AuDHD, EDS, POTS, MCAS, ARFID, and PMDD as one picture
Parents are sent to five specialists for what is, in autistic-led research and lived experience, one co-occurring cluster — connective-tissue, autonomic, immune, sensory, and endocrine dysregulation. An affirming operational parent map, honest about thin evidence.
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Autistic adulthood as infrastructure: employment, housing, and supported autonomy
Past the transition cliff, autistic adults fall out of the pediatric system into sparse, fragmented adult infrastructure. Autistic adulthood is an infrastructure problem — employment (IPS place-then-train), housing (community integration with funded supports), and supported decision-making vs guardianship — with autonomy as the design goal.
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Race × autism: the diagnosis gap as a gatekeeping problem
Black and Brown autistic children are diagnosed later, misdiagnosed more often, and under-identified by the systems that gate access to support. A diagnosis is access — unequally gated — and the diagnosis gap is a gatekeeping problem, not a neutral clinical fact.
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Sleep, sensory regulation, and the body clock
Sleep is a top autistic research priority — and the dominant behaviorist sleep-training default treats it as noncompliance, when for many autistic people it's sensory and circadian. Sensory-first, circadian-first, behaviorism last. Honest about the genuinely thin evidence.
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What autistic people actually want researched
AutINSAR 2025 asked autistic people their research priorities. The answers — mental health, sensory processing, co-occurring conditions, autistic adulthood — are almost the opposite of where funding actually goes. A plain-language synthesis for parents and builders.