Parenting
For parents raising an autistic child without the compliance playbook: quiet guides to meltdowns and sleep, the medical cluster nobody maps for you, and what autistic adults say actually helps.
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Beside the Meltdown: For the Adult in the Room
What an autistic meltdown is, what helps in the minute, what never helps, and which quiet tools serve which part. For parents — no compliance framing.
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The cluster nobody maps for parents: AuDHD, EDS, POTS, MCAS, ARFID, and PMDD as one picture
Five specialists for what is often one cluster — connective tissue, autonomic, immune, sensory, endocrine. An affirming 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 into sparse, fragmented support — employment, housing, supported decision-making, autonomy the 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. A diagnosis is access, unequally gated — a gatekeeping problem, not a clinical fact.
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Sleep, sensory regulation, and the body clock
Top autistic research priority, yet sleep training treats it as noncompliance — when for many it's sensory and circadian. Sensory-first, honest about evidence.
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What autistic people actually want researched
AutINSAR 2025 asked autistic people their research priorities. The answers are almost the opposite of where funding goes: mental health, sensory, adulthood.