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How Getting Hit by Lightning Changed a Woman’s Synesthesia

By Sarah Zhang — 2017

Head trauma made her see strange colors, even ones that are “not even real.”

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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Why an Autistic Person May Push for a Closer Friendship Right Away

Does your autistic loved one tend to overshare or overexplain? We don't mean to come off as desperate or creepy, we just connect differently.

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Autistic People Make Great Social Partners if You Actually Give Them a Chance

For many years, researchers have treated the individual traits and characteristics of autistic people as an enduring essence of their autism-- in isolation of the social context and without even asking autistic people what their social life is actually like. However, perspective matters.

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3 Mindfulness Practices for Neurodiverse Meditators

We don’t all meditate the same way—nor do we need to. Sue Hutton offers helpful tips and practices, informed by the autism community, to make mindfulness practice truly accessible.

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Does the Term “Neurodiversity” do More Harm than Good?

Attempts to normalize abnormal development could prevent individuals in need of help from seeking it.

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Autism Acceptance Not Awareness: A Perspective Shift Is Needed

The most radical act you can perform as an ally to Autistic people is to accept them exactly as they are and beyond that to celebrate them and their neurotype.

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Mental Disorder or Neurodiversity?

Embracing, not fixing, mental differences

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Where 75% of Workers Are on the Autistic Spectrum

Our brains don’t all work the same way. One New York–based software company sees that as a competitive advantage.

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More Celebrities are Coming Out as Autistic. That Makes a Huge Difference.

Anthony Hopkins, Wentworth Miller and others are showing us that autism is more varied than it once seemed to be.

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Coming Out Autistic

Transgender or gender-fluid people are more likely to be neurodivergent, and vice versa. Here’s what that’s like.

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A Psychiatrist Diagnosed Me as Autistic with ADHD. Now, Finally, I Can Thrive

Getting an official diagnosis as an adult is hard – but this year I got to know what being female and neurodivergent means.

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