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Melissa Black considers a study aiming to provide a psychometric validation of the AASPIRE Autistic Burnout Measure in autistic adults.

Autistic burnout is characterised by extreme exhaustion, loss of functioning, and reduced tolerance to stimulus, resulting from the cumulative stress associated...

Early research shows that autistic burnout could be very harmful and can have negative consequences for the mental health and wellbeing of autistic people. Outside the autistic community, most people...

For years, autistic people were talking about autistic burnout before researchers had a good way of measuring it. That's beginning to change. Autistic burnout is actually a really interesting example...

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Sam Crane provides precise commentary on August 27th's IACC meeting—including its questionable—as well as its promising—efforts.

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The Intense World Theory offers a neuroscientific view of autism. Discover how sensory hypersensitivity and context sensitivity relate to this model.

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Autonomy isn’t about doing everything alone. It’s about choosing who sits beside us. For NeuroDivergent and disabled people, that choice is often taken away, sometimes with the best intentions.

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My silence hadn’t protected anyone’s peace.

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The “non-traditional therapy” roadmap to moving out of depression for Autistic adults!

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Currently in my 3rd year out in the field after completing my degree. I feel so proud to be a social worker some days. There are times when i'm...

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