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Sep 203 min read
More Myths about Autism:
‘Autistic individuals always say what they think / or what they want to say’ There is a common misconception that autistic individuals...
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Sep 42 min read
Sophisticated echolalia:
Imitation as a Social Tool in Autism Though the broken mirror hypothesis predicts that autistic individuals should show severe...
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Jul 52 min read
The second book in the ‘Autism: Becoming a Professional Parent’ series has been released
After examining sensory perception in autism in the first book, the newly released second instalment focuses on communication and...
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Apr 174 min read
Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Autism (2):
Challenges in diagnosing Diagnosing Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) can be difficult as individuals with this disorder often...
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Mar 216 min read
Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Autism (1):
Overlapping symptoms and differences Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and ASD are two distinct condition. However, they share...
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Feb 235 min read
Personality Disorders and Autism: (2)
Overlaps, prevalence and comorbidity Overlapping symptoms It is now recognised that ASD and personality disorders (PDs) have a variety of...
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Sep 30, 20235 min read
Schizophrenia and Autism (1):
Two Spectra or Continua? Autism and schizophrenia are two complex neurodevelopmental disorders/conditions that have been extensively...
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Aug 14, 20234 min read
Psychosis and Autism (2):
Prevalence and comorbidity Comorbidity, or the coexistence of two or more disorders, is common in both autistic individuals and people...
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Jul 28, 20236 min read
Psychosis and Autism (1):
Overlapping symptoms and differences Psychosis Psychosis is not a diagnosis in and of itself but rather a cluster of symptoms present in...
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Jun 3, 20233 min read
Autism & Dementia (3):
Similarities and differences in conceptualisation, diagnosis and research Similarities: ASD and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are...
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Apr 29, 20237 min read
Autism and Dementia: (2)
Overlaps in biological pathways, clinical features and behavioural expression Although Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and ASD are etiologically...
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Mar 18, 20234 min read
Autism and Dementia: (1) Prevalence
- Hello, where are you? - I am at home. - At home? Where? - I have one home, in England. Why? What’s happened? - Why did you leave...
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Feb 11, 20234 min read
Telepathy:
Is it a supernatural or natural phenomenon? It depends. For example, if we see ‘telepathy’ as something ‘unscientific’ and ‘not worthy’...
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Dec 9, 20223 min read
Conscious and subconscious perception and how it is reflected in memory and thinking
The way we perceive the world affects the way we store and use information. The conscious mind is not the only way of receiving...
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Nov 4, 20224 min read
Autism: Sensations last too long
A painful truth Sensory stimuli can be experienced very differently by autistic individuals. Just because we may not feel something, it...
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Sep 16, 20225 min read
Communicative echolalia in autism
Though echolalia can be non-communicative , in many cases it is used for communication. Parents of autistic children (with echolalia) can...
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Apr 15, 20222 min read
Guidance for communicating and interacting with autistic people
Autistic people have unique ways of communicating and interacting that are rooted in their unique ways of thinking and experiencing the...
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Apr 1, 20223 min read
Fluent Speakers – So What’s the Problem?
Some individuals with ASD (especially those with high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome) possess well-developed spoken language,...
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Mar 4, 20224 min read
The Role of Sensory Perceptual Differences in Autism:
The Intense World Syndrome and other ‘sensory theories’ Although already in the very first descriptions of autistic children, researchers...
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Oct 29, 20215 min read
Lack of expressive verbal language – ‘autistic muteness’:
Why can’t my child speak? It was estimated that about one third (Bryson 1996) to one half (Lord & Paul 1997) of autistic people never...
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