The ER with an Autistic Adult: Preparing for the Visit You Can’t Avoid Every caregiver of a Level 2 or 3 adult eventually faces this. Almost every one of them...
Managing Self-Injurious Behavior and Aggression at Home: Safety Without Restraint System-level crisis response gets written about constantly. What actually happens in your living room, alone, at eleven at night, almost...
Aging with Autism: What Happens in the 40s, 50s, and Beyond The first generation diagnosed with autism in childhood is now reaching middle age, and almost no one can tell...
Menstruation and Reproductive Health Management for Autistic Women and Girls Caregivers ask about this constantly in every support group that exists. Published guidance almost never answers them, because almost everything...
Sexuality, Relationships, and Sex Education for Autistic Adults with High Support Needs Adults with high support needs are sexual beings with the same developmental drives as anyone else. Silence on...
Pain Assessment in Nonverbal Autistic Adults: When Behavior IS the Symptom A broken bone, a kidney stone, an abscessed tooth. None of them announce themselves with words in an adult...
Dental Care for Autistic Adults: The Crisis Nobody Talks About A toothache doesn’t announce itself politely in an adult who can’t easily say where it hurts. It shows up as...
Safety risks of idle time for severe autism Self-injury, aggression, and elopement rarely arrive without warning. For many adults with significant support needs, they follow boredom the way smoke follows...
Autistic burnout in adulthood (not a buzzword) Autistic burnout is not tiredness with a trendier name. It is a specific, documented state of exhaustion, skill loss, and reduced tolerance triggered...
Teaching independent living skills with realistic goals “Independent” was always the wrong word. Nobody does laundry, cooking, or hygiene entirely alone; they do it with habits, reminders, and tools nobody...
