My spouse Mike and I may have been autistic together. Perhaps that was why we were drawn to each other during my inaugural college year. I was a bright-eyed seventeen-year-old, and he was an intense and seasoned twenty-something university student, driven to sling code and design all kinds of inventions. His near fall over my […]
Content note: This essay discusses suicide. “It’s really dark in here,” my frowning boss told me the moment she came into my office. She knows I’m autistic; I’ve been here for three years. We also work in an industry that claims to know about autism, and to support autistic people. I could only shrug, too […]
Ethan Hanson grew up obsessed with sports in Southern California. He dreamed of it at school, read the sports section extensively every day and wanted nothing more than to become a sports journalist. Hanson recently wrote an article on Record Searchlight about how he achieved this goal and why his autism is a big part […]
Session adjourned: Another wave of pandemics has caused some autism researchers to postpone their return to face-to-face academic conferences. ALEAIMAGE / iStock Today is the final day of pre-registration for the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting, which will be held virtually and in person in Chicago, Illinois in November. For many autism researchers, however, […]
