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Autism Learning Hub

📘 Autism in Women: Signs, Misdiagnoses, and Late Recognition

Why autism is often missed in women and how masking changes the picture.

🎭 Autism in High-Masking Adults: Hidden Signs, Burnout, and Unmasking
How masking hides traits and why it often leads to exhaustion and burnout.

🌟 Autism Strengths and Cognitive Advantages
A strengths-based view of autistic cognition, perception, and abilities.

🧠 Autistic Cognitive Styles: Monotropism, Detail Focus and Pattern Detection Explained
How autistic attention and thinking styles work, and why they’re often misunderstood.

🔥 Autistic Shutdowns in Adults: Causes, Signs, and Recovery
What shutdowns are, what triggers them, and what helps recovery.

🔥 Autistic Meltdowns in Adults: A Practical Guide
A practical guide to what meltdowns are and how to support regulation and aftercare.

 

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 in‑depth articles, scientific research and community resources about autistic life.

📚 Autism | Sensory Overload Articles

🌟 Autism Strengths and Cognitive Advantages
A strengths-based view of autistic cognition and perception.

🧬 Exploring Autism Types: Four Unique Biological Profiles
A way of thinking about different autism profiles and how they may differ biologically and clinically.

🧠 Autistic Cognitive Styles: Monotropism, Detail Focus and Pattern Detection Explained
Explains deep-focus attention, detail processing, and pattern sensitivity.

🧊 Autistic Inertia: Why Starting (and Switching) Tasks Feels Physically Impossible
Why starting and switching can feel body-level difficult in autism.

🎯 Autistic Special Interests in Adulthood: Comfort, Identity and Burnout Protection
How special interests regulate the nervous system and support identity and stability.

👩 Autism in Women: Signs, Misdiagnoses, and Late Recognition
How autism can look different in women and why it is frequently missed.

🎭 Autism in High-Masking Adults: Hidden Signs, Burnout, and Unmasking
How high masking works and why it often leads to burnout.

🎭 Autistic Masking: Performing According to Social Norms
What masking is, why it develops, and what it costs.

🔥 Autistic Meltdowns in Adults: A Practical Guide
What meltdowns are, what triggers them, and what aftercare can look like.

🧊 Autistic Shutdowns in Adults: Causes, Signs, and Recovery
How shutdowns differ from burnout, depression, and “laziness,” and how to recover.

⚡ Panic Attack vs Autistic Meltdown vs Shutdown
A comparison guide to tell these experiences apart and choose the right support.

⚖️ Autistic Meltdown vs Panic Attack: Similarities, Differences, and Aftercare
How meltdowns and panic overlap, how they differ, and what helps afterward.

🗣️ Selective Mutism vs Autistic Shutdown: When Speech Disappears Under Stress
Why speech can vanish under stress and how to support yourself without pressure.

🧱 Stonewalling vs Autistic Shutdown: Understanding the Difference in Adult Relationships
How shutdown can look like “stonewalling” from the outside—and how to communicate what’s happening.

💤 Autistic Emotional Shutdown in Relationships: When Your Feelings Go Offline Mid Conversation
What “going offline” can look like and how to protect connection while regulating.

 

🧭 Proprioception & Interoception in ADHD & Autism
How body-awareness systems affect hunger, fatigue, pain, and noticing your needs.

🌙 Autism and Menopause: Sensory Sensitivity, Shutdowns, and Emotional Shifts
How hormonal transitions can amplify sensory sensitivity, shutdowns, and emotional intensity.

🧠 Emotion Regulation in Autism and ADHD: A Nervous System View
Why regulation is physical and nervous-system based, not just “mindset.”

⚖️ Autistic Injustice Sensitivity: Why Unfairness Feels Physically Unbearable
How moral sensitivity can feel like pain and how to cope without shutting down.

🌧️ Autistic Burnout vs Depression: Overlap, Differences, and What to Track
How to tell burnout and depression apart and what patterns to monitor.

🧩 Autism vs ADHD in Adults: Overlap, Differences and What It Means For You
How traits overlap and differ, and what that means for self-understanding.

🧬 Autism, ADHD or AuDHD? Understanding the Overlap and the Differences
How combined traits can produce unique patterns—and why neat categories often fail

🤝 Autistic Friendships in Adulthood: Why Depth, Routine and Space Matter
Why autistic friendships often work best with predictability, depth, and permission for space.

🗣️ Autistic Scripting: Why You Rehearse Conversations (and How to Reduce the Load)
Why rehearsing helps and how to reduce the cognitive load of social interaction.

👁️ Why Eye Contact Is So Hard with Autism
How eye contact can be sensory and cognitive overload, not rudeness or disinterest.

💞 Navigating Neurodivergent Neurotypical Relationships
A guide to translation problems, expectations, and building understanding across neurotypes.

💞 Neurodivergent Love: Relationship Dynamics Across ADHD, Autism & AuDHD Pairings
How different neurotypes can clash or complement—and how to reduce misinterpretation.

📚 Autism Scientific Reference Library

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.

 

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.

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

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