Autism affects how you process information, sense the world, communicate, relate to others and use routines to feel safe. It shapes social energy, sensory comfort, special interests and how you cope with change, stress and expectations.
This Autism Learning Hub gathers structured courses, in‑depth articles, scientific research and community resources about autistic life.
🏗️ Autism courses are in development.
Launch: early 2026
The Autism theme will follow the Sensory Overload structure:
Basics, Personal Deep Dive, Coping Strategies Level 1, 2,3, Science & Research, and Support.
We are already publishing articles on autism.
You can find them here.
Autism Courses
🧭 Autism Basics
Short, clear lessons explaining what autism is, how it can look beyond stereotypes, the role of sensory processing and social energy, and how autism can show up differently across ages, genders, and life contexts.
🪞 Your Autism: A Personal Deep Dive
A reflective course to map your own autistic profile: your sensory pattern, routines and rituals, communication style, special interests, and support needs at home, in relationships, at school, or at work. Helps you find language to describe your autism in a way that fits you.
🛠️ Autism Coping Strategies
Practical tools for everyday life: sensory regulation, planning around energy instead of hours, navigating social situations with clearer scripts and boundaries, managing overload and shutdowns, and building environments that support your brain.
🧩 Coping Strategies for Different Levels of Autism
Autistic people have different levels of support needs. The Coping Strategies course includes tailored tools for each level so everyone can find what matches their daily life, energy, and environment.
🌿 Level 1 — Low Support Needs
For autistic people who manage most daily tasks independently but struggle with executive function, sensory overload, social fatigue, transitions, and masking.
Focus areas include:
✨ Flexible routines that prevent burnout
🛋️ Reducing masking in safe spaces
🔋 Energy-based planning and predictable downtime
💬 Communication strategies for work and relationships
🎧 Sensory tools for overstimulation and shutdown prevention
🌳 Level 2 — Moderate Support Needs
For autistic people who need regular support with structure, sensory safety, and routines, and who experience more frequent overload, shutdowns, or communication difficulty.
Focus areas include:
📅 Predictable daily structures with clear transitions
🧘♀️ Sensory zoning (calm areas vs. stimulation areas)
🌙 Low-demand periods after overwhelm or shutdown
🖼️ Visual supports and simplified planning tools
🤲 Co-regulation strategies with trusted supporters
🌲 Level 3 — High Support Needs
For autistic people who rely on substantial daily support with communication, routines, sensory regulation, and safety.
Focus areas include:
🌈 Calm-first environments and safety planning for overload
🔁 Step-by-step routines using visual sequencing
🪵 Sensory regulation as the foundation of all tasks
🏡 Environmental adaptations that reduce cognitive load
🗣️ Communication supports (AAC, gestures, simplified language)
❤️ Co-regulation and caregiver tools for long-term support
🔬 Autism Science & Research
Accessible summaries of research on autistic perception, social communication, sensory processing, monotropism, predictive processing, and co-occurring conditions. Focused on what the science means for real life, not just theory.
🤝 Supporting Someone With Autism
Guidance for partners, parents, friends, colleagues, and professionals: understanding autistic needs and boundaries, communicating with clarity and kindness, adapting environments, and balancing support for the autistic person with your own self-care.
✨ Early Access & Membership
When you join the Full Access Membership, you gain unlimited access to all current themes. Autism courses will be added to your account automatically once they launch, and your price stays the same for as long as you remain a member.
Autism Articles
🧠 Autism Basics & Neurotype
Clear explanations of autistic processing, developmental patterns, and how autism shapes thinking, communication and daily experience across the lifespan.
🔬 Exploring Autism Types: Four Unique Biological Profiles
Describes four neurobiological processing styles found across the spectrum and how they appear in daily life.
🧠 Autistic Traits & Profiles
Core autistic patterns in attention, sensory experience, communication and routines, including variations across different presentations and gendered patterns.
🌟 Autism Strengths & Cognitive Advantages
Autistic processing includes many strengths that support deep thinking, creativity, stability and high-quality work. These strengths appear naturally when environments fit the person’s sensory, communication and routine needs.
🌈 Autism Strengths and Cognitive Advantages
Highlights unique processing styles like detail orientation, deep thinking, truth-seeking and pattern expertise.
🎧 Sensory Processing, Energy & Overload
How sensory input, intensity and unpredictability affect comfort, focus, energy rhythms and overload, with practical sensory adjustments for daily life.
Understanding Sensory Overload in Adults
What is sensory overload , why does it occur, and how it affects everyday functioning.
⚡ Emotions, Shutdowns & Meltdowns
Autistic emotional rhythms, overload responses, shutdown patterns, early signals and recovery, with guidance for managing daily emotional load.
❄️ Autistic Shutdowns in Adults: Causes, Signs, and Recovery
Explains what autistic shutdowns feel like inside the body, what triggers them and how to support recovery.
⚙️ Executive Function & Daily Organization
Planning, switching, initiation and routine-building explained through autistic processing, with practical tools that lower cognitive and decision load.
Autism and Routines: Why Structure Feels Safe and What Happens When It Changes
Why routines are important, how they support functioning and what happens when routines break.
🏠 Home, Environments & Daily Life
Daily routines, sensory-friendly environments, shared spaces, transitions and practical adjustments that support predictable and manageable home life.
🤝 Communication, Social Dynamics & Relationships
Autistic communication rhythms, social energy, friendship patterns, dating, parenting and ways to build supportive neurodiverse–neurotypical interactions.
👀 Why Eye Contact Is So Hard with Autism
Explains sensory, cognitive and social load factors behind eye contact difficulty.
💞 Navigating Neurodivergent Neurotypical Relationships
This article explores ND and NT relationships.
🪞 Identity, Masking & Self-Understanding
Masking, camouflaging and identity development in autistic adults, including unmasking, self-awareness, internal narratives and community connection.
💼 School, Study, Work & Burnout
How autistic processing interacts with academic and workplace demands, accommodations, communication support and the development and recovery of autistic burnout.
🔬 Support, Treatment, Advocacy & Science
Autism-informed supports, therapy options, coaching, rights and accommodations, plus accessible summaries of key scientific and research insights.
🎬 Top 25 Movies That Portray Autism Symptoms
A curated list of films that meaningfully depict autistic traits, behaviours and sensory experiences.
📚 Autism Research Reference Library
Scientific studies on autism spectrum disorder (ASD): mechanisms, sensory processing, emotion and care.
🧬 Autism Definition, Prevalence & Core Overviews
Lord, C., Elsabbagh, M., Baird, G., & Veenstra‑Vanderweele, J. (2018).
Autism spectrum disorder
Lancet seminar on definition, clinical features and developmental course.
Lord, C., Charman, T., Havdahl, A., et al. (2020).
Autism spectrum disorder
Nature Reviews Disease Primers overview of causes, mechanisms, prevalence and treatment.
Hodges, H., Fealko, C., & Soares, N. (2020).
Autism spectrum disorder: definition, epidemiology, causes and clinical evaluation
Clear summary of diagnosis, prevalence and assessment in clinical practice.
Lord, C., Charman, T., Havdahl, A., et al. (2022).
The Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research in autism
Major position paper on services, research priorities and global care gaps.
🧠 Neurobiology & Brain Networks
Pardo, C. A., & Eberhart, C. G. (2007).
The neurobiology of autism
Review of neuropathology, immune findings and brain‑tissue studies in autism.
Minshew, N. J., & Williams, D. L. (2007).
The new neurobiology of autism: Cortex, connectivity, and neuronal organization
Argues autism is best understood as a disorder of complex information processing and connectivity.
Veenstra‑VanderWeele, J., Warren, Z., & Foss‑Feig, J. H. (2023).
Translational neuroscience approaches to understanding the neurobiology of autism
Links basic neuroscience to clinical questions and future treatment targets.
Bitsika, V., & Sharpley, C. F. (2024).
Neurobiological concomitants of autism as informers of psychiatry and clinical practice
Reviews EEG, imaging and physiological markers relevant for clinical work.
🧪 Genetics of Autism
Qiu, S., Lu, Y., Li, Y., et al. (2022).
Genetics of autism spectrum disorder: an umbrella review and evidence‑based assessment
Comprehensive umbrella review of genetic risk factors and candidate genes.
Charman, T., Loth, E., Tillmann, J., et al. (2017).
The new genetics of autism: a translational opportunity? – Discusses how emerging genetic findings can inform diagnosis and intervention.
🎧 Sensory Processing & Perception
Robertson, C. E., & Baron‑Cohen, S. (2017).
Sensory perception in autism
Nature Reviews Neuroscience article on sensory traits, perception and neural noise in autism.
Marco, E. J., Hinkley, L. B., Hill, S. S., & Nagarajan, S. S. (2011).
Sensory processing in autism: a review of neurophysiologic findings
Reviews EEG/MEG and other neurophysiological studies of sensory responses.
Mikkelsen, M., Wodka, E. L., Mostofsky, S. H., & Puts, N. A. J. (2018).
Autism spectrum disorder in the scope of tactile processing
Focuses on tactile perception differences and related white‑matter changes.
Proff, I., et al. (2021).
Sensory Processing in Autism Across Exteroceptive and Interoceptive Modalities
Integrates findings on external senses and internal body‑signal processing in autism.
🌊 Emotion Regulation & Mental Health
Mazefsky, C. A., Herrington, J., Siegel, M., et al. (2013).
The Role of Emotion Regulation in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Foundational paper framing emotion regulation as central to many autism‑related difficulties.
Hendrix, N. M., et al. (2022).
A systematic review of emotion regulation in parent‑mediated interventions for autistic children
Summarises how interventions target and measure emotion regulation.
McDonald, R. G., & Rushby, J. A. (2024).
Emotion dysregulation in autism: A meta‑analysis
Quantifies the extent of emotion dysregulation across studies of autistic people.
Dell’Osso, L., Cremone, I. M., Amatori, G., et al. (2023).
Emotional dysregulation as a part of the autism spectrum: A narrative review
Argues emotional dysregulation should be considered a core dimension of autism.
Rinaldi, L. J., et al. (2023).
Autistic traits, emotion regulation, and sensory sensitivities in misophonia
Links autistic traits, sensory sensitivity and emotion‑regulation difficulties in misophonia.
🧭 Clinical Care, Services & Autistic Perspectives
Lord, C., Charman, T., Havdahl, A., et al. (2022).
The Lancet Commission on the future of care and clinical research in autism
Sets a research and service agenda for the next decade.
Pukki, H., Valkonen, P., & Pellicano, E. (2022).
Autistic perspectives on the future of clinical autism research
Autistic‑led response emphasising participation, ethics and lived experience.