Autism Is Genetic. It’s Time Society Caught up With the Evidence

• By: Loveartpix Autistic Artist, Educator, and Advocate
• October 20th, 2026
• autistic identity, environmental accommodations, genetic evidence, lived experience, neurodivergence, research, stigma, vaccine misinformation
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For decades autistic people have had to listen to other people debate what supposedly made us autistic. Vaccines have probably been one of the most persistent claims, despite this question being researched repeatedly over many years. I really hope we are finally reaching a point where this...

Sensory Scanning for Self-Advocacy

• By: Valerie Paradiz, PhD
• January 1st, 2013
• environmental accommodations, executive functioning, self-advocacy, sensory differences, sensory processing, sensory scan, sensory systems, supports, workplace and school challenges
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Many individuals with autism, like myself, have challenges with the sensory world. Sometimes these challenges are difficult for us to identify, and quite often it’s even harder for those around us to see or understand them. Our senses provide our brains with information about the environment,...