Sensory
Sensory load as the layer under everything else — meltdowns as capacity events, sleep as a sensory-and-circadian question, and environments that quietly spend more of you than they return.
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Inside the Meltdown: What It Is While It's Happening
What an autistic meltdown is from the inside: the narrowing senses, language going offline, the body's own logic, the shame after — and what 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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Monotropism, flow, and the real cost of context-switching
Autistic attention is narrow-but-deep, not a focus deficit. Context-switching costs are structural — workplaces that ignore them tax whom they claim to accommodate.
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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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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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The accommodation tax is a myth: neurodivergent-first design helps everyone (and the honest cases where it doesn't)
Designing for neurodivergent users rarely costs the majority anything — mostly the tax is a myth. The honest version names the real tradeoffs, answered with options.
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Autistic burnout and the cost of masking, for knowledge workers (not the HR version)
Autistic burnout is the predictable output of sustained masking — and standard corporate interventions make it worse. What actually helps, drawn from the research.