Sublime

This association with isolation is reflected in the names for autism across the world. It is known as zì bì zhèng (‘the lonely disease’) in China, in Korea chapae (‘closed in on oneself’), in Japanese jheisyo (‘intentionally shut’), in Maori takiwātanga (‘in their own time and space’). The Taiwanese version, Xīngxīng -de háizi, is more enigmatic an

Autistic people have differences in the development of their anterior cingulate cortex,[14] a part of the brain that helps regulate attention, decision making, impulse control, and emotional processing.

It was rather huffily pointed out to her that the assessment waiting lists are long enough as it is, and that there was nothing much in the way of support mechanisms available for autistic adults anyway, at least in the UK. These clinicians showed little apparent awareness of how much importance individuals might attach to having a name for their d

In this regard, autism’s coherence as a condition isn’t putatively explainable under one genetic or neurological rubric, but rather comes into being through the confluence of multiple behavioral markers, each of which might surface with fluctuating degrees of severity and each of which possesses diverging causes

Being identified as Autistic can be socially and emotionally perilous for women and gender minorities, regardless of race; for Black and brown Autistics, being visibly disabled can be deadly.

The Secret Life of a Black Aspie, folklorist Anand Prahlad

‘Pioneering, Prodigious and Perspicacious: Grunya Efimovna Sukhareva’s Life and Contribution to Conceptualising Autism and Schizophrenia’, they nominated her 1920s papers as describing the first clinical account of autistic children and note (at last!) that she was ahead of her time in her focus on females, acknowledging the importance of her obser