Photo of Anne Corwin, as a child of about 7 years old with pale skin and dark hair with bangs. She is sitting on a tree branch while leaning against the trunk and looking into the distance.

On “Energy Budgeting” and Acknowledging Internal Autistic Realities

May 28, 2021May 25, 2022 by Anne Corwin

All humans deserve to be able to do energy budgeting in ways that make sense for us, and I hope to see the day when support for autistic people toward this end is considered a matter of basic ethics and decency.

Illustration of the character Tom Sawyer talking another boy into painting the fence that Tom is supposed to paint.

Accommodations

When Adaptation Looks Like Laziness

July 9, 2020May 17, 2022 by Emily Paige Ballou

For instance, autistic inertia means that it’s harder for autistic people than it is for other people to stop, start, and change activities.

Photo (light-painting) by the author: a spectral outline around a hand and arm, raised as if to flap, on a black background

acceptance

Starting Points for Understanding Autism

February 9, 2019March 25, 2023 by Fergus Murray

I believe that the best way to understand autistic minds is in terms of a thinking style which tends to concentrate resources in a few interests and concerns at any time, rather than distributing them widely.