Written by: Rebecca Rosenzweig, BA Historically, autism has been blamed for the challenges autistic people face. Struggling to stay in school? Get a job? Make friends?  “It’s because of the autism.”  The belief is this:  If autistic people are trained to behave like someone without autism, they wil

Written by: Diane Gould, LCSW WHAT IS PDA? PDA, originally known as Pathological Demand Avoidance and now often called Pervasive Drive for Autonomy, is an autistic profile. It was first identified in the UK in the 1980s among individuals who differed from most autistic people but shared similar traits with eac

Written by: Jessica Geiger, MSc Autistic Burnout  For some time, autistic people have taken to social media and other online platforms to discuss their shared experience of autistic burnout. Anecdotally, autistic burnout is described as a state of exhaustion and distress that severely impacts functioning (Higg