Sensory
Sensory processing, environments, and design.
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Monotropism, flow, and the real cost of context-switching
Autistic attention is a narrow-but-deep funnel (monotropism), not a deficit of focus. The cost of context-switching is structural, and workplace design that ignores it taxes the people it claims to accommodate.
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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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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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The accommodation tax is a myth: neurodivergent-first design helps everyone (and the honest cases where it doesn't)
The accommodation-tax frame assumes designing for neurodivergent users costs the neurotypical majority something. Mostly that's a myth — neurodivergent-first design surfaces friction the majority was tolerating. But not always: the honest version names the genuine tradeoffs and answers them with universal design (options), not a single replaced default.
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Autistic burnout and the cost of masking, for knowledge workers (not the HR version)
Autistic burnout is a predictable output of sustained masking under a neurotypical-coded work rhythm, not a personal coping failure — and the standard corporate interventions make it worse. What actually helps, drawn from AASPIRE and the masking-cost literature.