Autism Understood

Sensory Differences - Touch - Autistic Differences

Sensory – Touch

Autistic people often experience lower sensitivity OR higher sensitivity with touch. It is common for the levels of sensitivity to change according to how relaxed, stressed or tired the person is feeling.

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Monotropism

Monotropism

Monotropism is a processing style, or way of thinking. Monotropic people tend to focus strongly on a small number of things at a time, and

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Struggling as an autistic person - Meltdowns

Understanding Meltdowns

Our brain is divided into different areas – each different area does a different job.   The Cortex – this is our ‘thinking’ brain which

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What is autism?

Introducing Autism

We have created this website so that you get a chance to understand what autism actually is. Everyone who has contributed to this website is

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Autism Co-occurring Conditions - ADHD / AuDHD

ADHD

ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, however this name isn’t quite right. Lots of people think that if you are ADHD you run around

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Autism - Social Stuff - Gender, sexuality and relationships

Gender, Sexuality & Relationships

Autism and Gender Gender presentation is something personal to each individual, whether they are autistic or not. Interestingly though, a large study by the University

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