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Routine can sound boring to some people. For many autistic people, it’s the opposite - routine is what makes life feel manageable. A routine isn’t about being rigid for the sake of it. It’s a way of creating predictability in...

Burnout can happen to anyone. When life asks too much for too long, something has to give. Autistic burnout is often described as a particular kind of crash that can happen when an autistic person is living with ongoing, cumulative...

Masking is one of those topics that many autistic people recognise instantly, even if they’ve never had a word for it. In simple terms, autism masking (sometimes called camouflaging) is when an autistic person hides or suppresses autistic traits in...

I’m an Operations Executive at Harry Specters, but around the team I’m affectionately known as the “Office Octopus” because I have a hand in just about everything (except the chocolate making… although I have decorated a few in the past)....

If you’ve ever walked away from a conversation thinking, “I don’t know what just happened there,” you already understand the heart of the double empathy problem. The double empathy problem is an idea from autistic researcher Dr Damian Milton. It...

Every April, you’ll see more conversations about autism; in schools, workplaces, on social media, and in families. You’ll also hear two phrases used side-by-side: Autism Awareness and Autism Acceptance. They sound similar, but they point to two very different goals....