Living on the Spectrum

Autism, in plain language.

What the research actually says. What the day actually looks like. And the distance between those two things, which is where most of the useful material is.

How this site is built. No autoplay, no animation you didn't ask for, no pop-ups, no cookie banner. It follows your system's light or dark setting and your reduced-motion setting. Text resizes properly. If something here is hard to use, that's a bug — tell me.

What this is

Three kinds of thing

Research, translated

What the studies say

Papers read properly and explained without jargon — including sample sizes, who was studied, and what the finding does not mean.

Lived detail

What the day is like

Sensory load, executive function, masking, burnout, recovery. The specifics, not the euphemisms.

Practical

Things that help

Accommodations, scripts, tools, and how to ask for them. No cures, no fixing, no "have you tried."

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Writing

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Elsewhere

The other channels