View a past chat on this topic here: November 29, 2020. Questions: This #AutChat is on coping with holidays during the pandemic. Feel free to answer about any holidays, not just upcoming ones. Holidays often involve both stress and good things – travel, routine changes, visiting family members, etc. But due to the pandemic, even […]

View past chats on this topic here: November 1, 2020 and March 26, 2023. Q1: What are your experiences with asking for help? Do you find it hard or easy? #AutChat Q2: How do you decide when to ask for help rather than trying to do something on your own? What kinds of clues tell […]

View past chats on this topic: October 11, 2020 and February 19, 2023. Q1. (1/2) Do you do personal writing related to your experiences as a neurodivergent person? For example, blogging, memoir, essays, articles, tweet threads, etc. If you have a link to your work, please feel welcome to include it. #AutChat Q1. (2/2) If […]

View past chats on this topic: September 27, 2020. Thank you to @GeorgeT_UK and @huffietina for their input during question writing! Today’s #AutChat questions can be answered by anyone, but please try to center the experiences of autistic/similar people who are currently youth-aged as we discuss this topic. (Feel free to self-define whether you currently […]

View past chats on this topic: July 12, 2020 and November 13, 2022. Q1: Do you have trouble balancing different needs within limited time, energy, and focus levels? #AutChat Q2: What factors do you take into account when trying to decide which needs get prioritized? #AutChat Q3: Do you have difficulty adjusting to priority changes, […]

View past chats on this topic: June 21, 2020, and October 3, 2022. Please keep in mind that everyone has had really diverse experiences with today’s #AutChat questions regardless of which generation we grew up in – we’re here to explore those differences rather than make assumptions about what it was like for other people. […]

View past chats on this topic: May 24, 2020 or March 19, 2023. Q1. Overall, how would you characterize your experiences with education growing up? What were things that made it better or worse? You might mention your country, if relevant. #AutChat Q2. Were you ever placed in special education, gifted education, and/or other kinds […]

View past chats on this topic: May 3, 2020 and July 17, 2022. Today’s #AutChat is about unlearning social skills (and unlearning things we may have been told were social skills, but are not, or are helpful for some people but not for you). Q1: What “anti-social-skills” have you learned—social skills that you (or someone […]

View past chats on this topic: April 19, 2020. Today’s #AutChat is about how we’re coping with social distancing, quarantining, and lockdown in the age of COVID19. Please be aware that adjacent COVID19 topics such as medical rationing, eugenics, death/grief, medical trauma, etc may be upsetting. We recommend putting a content warning (such as “CW: […]

View past chats on this topic: April 12, 2020, and August 28, 2022.   Many autistic people have things in common with each other. We’re also different from each other in important ways.    Q1: What are some ways to talk about similarities among autistic people, while also making sure autistic people who don’t share […]