Profound autism campaigners have it wrong: Autistic adults who can speak/write are not getting the funds meant for profoundly autistic children. We’re usually not getting any of the money for services at all.
![[image: Illustrated book cover with a dark background. Text at the top reads, "Award-winning author of Good Different Meg Eden Kuyatt" Underneath is a ghost-like girl with a malicious expression emerging from an attic wall, intertwined with large white hand-lettered text reading, "The Girl in the Walls" Underneath, small white text reads, "Everyone has secrets" At the bottom is an illustration of a white girl with shaggy long dark brown hair, crouching hesitantly in front of and opening a box in the attic, while she holds an old doll with her other hand.]](https://thinkingautismguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Screenshot-2026-10-09-at-6.34.17-PM.png)
Are neurotypical readers ready for a middle grade ghost story in which the horror is how neurodivergent society suppresses neurodivergence?
The new film Masc follows a biracial queer autistic man as he attempts to navigate who he is. Sarah Kurchak discusses its intimacy and accessibility with filmmaker Bertil Nilsson, and actor Joshua Griffin.
Disability advocacy has to include understanding that disabled people may display behaviours that are uncomfortable, and balancing that knowledge with keeping everyone safe.
RFK Jr. reshaped the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) to better fit his questionable views on autism priorities. We are grateful to former IACC member Sam Crane for her precise commentary on August 27th’s IACC meeting—including its less commendable as well as its promising efforts.
Natasha Nelson reminds us that “how your brain processes the world is how you experience the world, so if a person tells you ‘this hurts me,’ it hurts them.”
People used to tell me to calm down, like it’s a choice. For me, it was a dimmer switch I didn’t have. I wasn’t dramatic. I was fluorescent. And fluorescent things don’t dim on command.
What I want more than anything is a word or a term that will make other people love A- as much as we do, and as much as he does himself.
I don’t have a behavior problem. I have a gap in my adaptive ability. I don’t need habilitation training; I need someone to help me out.
What do people mean when they repeat the myth that “Autistic people lack empathy?” Which sort of empathy? What evidence is there?
