There is little comprehensive research into autistic adulthood, and even less into the
services and supports that are most likely to foster flourishing adult autistic lives. This limited …

Social performances pervade human interactions. Some autistic people describe their social
performances as 'camouflaging'and engage in these performances to mitigate social …

This paper presents the concepts of “neurodiversity” and the “neurodiversity approaches”
towards disability and discusses how confusion regarding the meaning of these concepts …

The growth of autistic self-advocacy and the neurodiversity movement has brought about
new ethical, theoretical and ideological debates within autism theory, research and practice …

Autistic masking is an emerging research area that focuses on understanding the conscious
or unconscious suppression of natural autistic responses and adoption of alternatives …

Based on Francesca Happé's best-selling textbook, Autism: An Introduction to Psychological
Theory, this completely new edition provides a concise overview of contemporary …

In psychiatry, mental dysfunction is typically framed in relation to models that seek to be
continuous with physiology or evolutionary biology and that compare individual fitness to a …

The Double Empathy Problem suggests that communicative difficulties between autistic and
non-autistic people are due to bi-directional differences in communicative style and a …

In recent decades there has been much debate over the ontological status of autism and
other neurological 'disorders', diagnosed by behavioural indicators, and theorised primarily …

Conflicting evidence exists with regard to the relationship between maternal infection during
pregnancy and the risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in offspring. The aim of this meta …