View a past chat on this topic: Feb 23, 2020. Q1: What were your experiences with reading, writing, and spoken (or signed) language during childhood? elementary school? beyond? #AutChat Q2: Do you have co-occurring conditions that influence your relationship to written, spoken, or signed language? For example, hyperlexia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, aphasia, synesthesia, auditory processing problems, […]

View past chats on this topic here: Jan 26, 2020, and May 29, 2022. Masking, or camouflaging, is when autistic/similarly neurodivergent people try to act less noticeably neurodivergent, often in order to fit in and avoid ableism. Many of us consciously learned to do this when young, but it might have become automatic over time. […]

Read a past chat on this topic: Jan 5, 2019. Sometimes a friendship or other interpersonal relationship breaks down unexpectedly, and we don’t know why. Sometimes we may discover that friends we trusted have lied to us or omitted important information, and we may not know why. #AutChat Sometimes we may end a friendship or […]