Learn about the misuse of Fabricated Or Induced Illness (FII) by professionals thar disportionately effects Autistic parents and parents of Autistic children.
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An Ecosystemic Model Of The AuDHD Burnout–Psychosis Cycle
An application of the ecosystemic model of distress to the AuDHD (Autistic and ADHD) burnout to psychosis cycle.
Creating Autistic Suffering: Failures In Identification
This installment of Creating Autistic Suffering explores the failurss of the doagnostic system and how we identify Autistic people through historical inquiry and contemporary autism theory.
Guide To Accessing Healthcare For Autistic People
An Autistic guide to accessing healthcare written by an Autistic person.
Creating Autistic Suffering: In The Beginning There Was Trauma…
Learn about trauma and what traumatises Autistic people. Are Autistic people more easily traumatised, or are we exposed to greater levels of trauma?
New Meta-Analysis Supports Autism-Psychosis Overlap
A new meta-analyses has found a significant overlap between autism and psychosis. What does this research mean and what further work is needed?
A History Of Autism
An exploration of autism’s history from it’s earliest framings through to our contemporary struggle for Autistic liberation.
Understanding Autism: Am I Autistic?
An article considering how to answer a common question “am I Autistic?” from the lens of an Autistic adult.
Understanding Autism: The Ecosystemic Model Of Distress
Building on Luke Beardon’s golden equation of ‘autism + environment = outcome’ this article proposes that distress and mental health problems are generated by the human ecosystem, highlighting that to improve the wellbeing of Autistic people we must take an approach of ecological conservation to make the ecosystem sustainable and safe for all people.
Autism: What Healthcare Professionals Need To Know
If you are a healthcare professional looking to improve your practice with Autistic patients, this is for you. This article will take you through some of the basic groundings from which you can do further learning.