View past chats on this topic: October 2, 2016; February 25, 2018, September 20, 2020, and February 26, 2023. Q1: How do you describe your gender identity and/or expression? Share whatever you’re comfortable with. #AutChat Q2: How do you conceptualize the relationship between your autistic/neurodivergent identity & your gender identity? Do they connect/interact? #AutChat The next […]

View transcripts of past chats on this topic here: Apr 19, 2016, May 1, 2016, Feb 11, 2018, August 30, 2020, and May 7, 2023. Today’s #AutChat topic is prosopagnosia, which is difficulty recognizing faces. It’s a problem for many (not all) autistic people. Prosopagnosia can happen in other conditions too, such as Williams Syndrome, […]

View past chats on this topic: May 8, 2016, September 13, 2020, and March 5, 2023. This #AutChat is on effective strategies for educating people about autism and similar neurodivergences. Examples of different strategies: Sharing personal stories; talking about research; pointing people to webpages. #AutChat We can’t always change people’s misunderstandings. Sometimes we can, though. […]

View transcripts of past chats on this topic: November 13, 2016, January 21, 2018, September 6, 2020, January 29, 2023. Autistic and similarly neurodivergent people have very high rates of unemployment and underemployment. Some of these questions apply to people who are employed, some apply to people who seeking work, some to people who aren’t. #AutChat — […]

Read past chats on this topic: March 3, 2020 and July 24, 2022. This #AutChat is about media and entertainment. You can answer about any media or entertainment; it doesn’t have to be neurodivergence-specific. Q1: What are your favorite books or authors? Movies/TV shows? What do you like about them? #AutChat Q2: What bands/albums do […]

View past chats on this topic: Dec 17, 2017 and Nov 10, 2019. Q1: What kind of cooking and/or meal prep do you do? #AutChat Q2: What parts are cooking/meal prep do you like? What parts do you dislike? #AutChat Q3: If parts of cooking/meal prep are difficult for you, what makes them difficult? #AutChat […]

View past chats on this topic: December 10, 2017, February 16, 2020, and September 11, 2022. This #AutChat is about privacy and privacy violations, including medical information (physical health, mental health, neurodivergence-related). Remember that if talking or reading about this is upsetting or triggering, you can mute the hashtag or step away as needed. —- […]

View past chats on this topic: November 26, 2017, September 15, 2019, and April 3, 2022. Today’s #autchat is on mood dysregulation: Intense emotional responses to situations, and difficulty managing those responses. Autistic and similarly neurodivergent people can have difficulty with mood regulation. This can also be due to co-occurring mood or personality disorders. You […]

View past chats on this topic here: November 2, 2015, January 7, 2018, June 30, 2019, and October 24, 2021. Burnout is when “the demands of life exceed a person’s resources” and they temporarily lose skills or coping abilities. This can include increased difficulty with masking (hiding autistic or neurodivergent traits). #AutChat https://web.archive.org/web/20110315102625/http:/www.autistics.org/library/more-autistic.html Questions: Q1: […]

View past chats on this topic here: Mar 22, 2016, Dec 24, 2017, Dec 23, 2018, and Aug 22, 2021. Questions: Q1: What routines are helpful to you? What routines are restrictive? #AutChat Q2: How do you go about building helpful routines? What problems do you run into? #AutChat Q3: How do you manage interruptions […]