What is World Autism Awareness Day about?!
World Autism Awareness Day was made for the autism community not by the autism community so it’s fundamentally flawed. We’d rather an acceptance day instead!
Tag: Autism Spectrum Disorder
Autism—What’s in a diagnosis? Is finding a community more important?
A late diagnosis of autism can be affirming as well as confusing. Is it important to go through a formal autism assessment? Do the opinions of other people matter? What does self-diagnosis mean?
Eating disorders and autism–what’s the link?
From the outside looking in, perhaps eating disorders and autism couldn’t look more different. Supposedly, people with autism aren’t attuned to their emotions, whereas people with eating disorders are highly sensitive and turn to food/eating behaviours to cope. But strip off the misconceptions, and the two conditions are far more similar than anyone believed.
