Category: Adult Autism

Interoception is often described as the body's "hidden sense" because it helps us recognise and interpret signals coming from within our bodies. It is the…

Many autistic people describe knowing that something feels wrong but struggling to identify exactly what they are feeling. They may recognise a sense of discomfort,…

For many autistic women, discovering they are autistic can be a life-changing experience. Whether diagnosis comes in childhood, adolescence, adulthood, or later life, it often…

If you are autistic, you may have found that change feels more difficult than it seems to for other people. You might cope well when…

Mental health difficulties are common within the autistic community. Although autism itself is not a mental health condition, autistic children, teenagers and adults experience significantly…

Autism is a lifelong neurodevelopmental difference that affects how a person communicates, interacts with others, processes information and experiences the world around them. Although autism…

Many women only begin to consider that they may be autistic in their 40s and 50s. They may have spent decades feeling different, struggling socially,…

One of the most visible and yet often misunderstood aspects of autism is stimming. Many autistic adults describe stimming as an important part of how they…

Autism has been recognised and understood in many different ways over the past century. What began as descriptions of a small group of children with distinctive social…