How to respond empathetically to sensory sensitivities

An Autistically informed tip sheet that will have you responding empathetically to your child’s sensory triggers and empowering them to advocate for their own sensory needs in the future.

The Autistic Doctor: How finding my neurokin helped me to embrace my identity

Following on from her captivating piece on Synaesthesia, Dr Penny Rowan writes of how stumbling on a little-known Facebook group of International Autistic Doctors and connecting with her neurokin gave her the strength to embrace her Autistic identity, and the motivation to challenge the discrimination that can exist in the medical profession.

Introduction to Autism, Part 4: The Autism spectrum is not linear

Very often we think of the Autism spectrum as a two-dimensional straight line. In this piece, Dr Melanie Heyworth discusses the flawed notion of a linear spectrum and puts forward an alternative analogy to capture the complexity, the fluidity of the Autism spectrum.

Introduction to Autism, Part 3: A respectful approach to therapy

At the time of your child’s Autism diagnosis, a host of therapies and interventions might have been recommended to you, but how do you identify therapies, therapists, and goals that will respect your child’s Autistic neurology? In this piece Dr Melanie Heyworth and Ginny Grant share their insights on respectful therapies.

Kicking goals: Finding myself and community through gender-inclusive footy

In this uplifting guest piece, Autistic trans advocate Sam Rose explores how they found their authentic identity and their community through a recreational mixed-gender football team.

Position statement on Autistic-LGBTIQA+ identity

In recent years, it has become widely accepted that there is a considerable overlap between the Autistic and the LGBTIQA+ communities. However, a corresponding effort to support the Autistic-LGBTIQA+ community has not been forthcoming. Read Reframing Autism’s full position statement on Autistic-LGBTIQA+ identity.

Self-advocacy: From the personal to the political

Autistic advocate and guest blogger Katharine Annear explores the history of the Autistic self-advocacy movement in Australia and some of the key aspects of making one’s voice heard.

Autistic social motivation: A summary of Jaswal and Akhtar for non-academics

The latest in our series of summaries of significant research studies concerning our community, this piece helps non-academics to understand Vikram Jaswal and Nameera Akhtar’s work on Autistic social motivation.

The colour of Alzheimer’s: The vivid world of a synaesthetic doctor

In this captivating personal account, an Autistic doctor opens up her synaesthetic world, where music conjures images, time presents as shapes and her patients’ diagnoses, as colours. She also explores the question of whether her Autistic children may also be synaesthetic.