‘Autistic individuals always say what they think / or what they want to say’ There is a common misconception that autistic individuals...

Imitation as a Social Tool in Autism Though the broken mirror hypothesis  predicts that autistic individuals should show severe...

After examining sensory perception in autism in the first book, the newly released second instalment focuses on communication and...

Challenges in diagnosing Diagnosing Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) can be difficult as individuals with this disorder often...

Overlapping symptoms and differences Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and ASD are two distinct condition. However, they share...

Overlaps, prevalence and comorbidity Overlapping symptoms It is now recognised that ASD and personality disorders (PDs) have a variety of...

Two Spectra or Continua? Autism and schizophrenia are two complex neurodevelopmental disorders/conditions that have been extensively...

Prevalence and comorbidity Comorbidity, or the coexistence of two or more disorders, is common in both autistic individuals and people...

Overlapping symptoms and differences Psychosis Psychosis is not a diagnosis in and of itself but rather a cluster of symptoms present in...

Similarities and differences in conceptualisation, diagnosis and research Similarities: ASD and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are...

Overlaps in biological pathways, clinical features and behavioural expression Although Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and ASD are etiologically...

- 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...

Is it a supernatural or natural phenomenon? It depends. For example, if we see ‘telepathy’ as something ‘unscientific’ and ‘not worthy’...

The way we perceive the world affects the way we store and use information. The conscious mind is not the only way of receiving...

A painful truth Sensory stimuli can be experienced very differently by autistic individuals. Just because we may not feel something, it...

Though echolalia can be non-communicative , in many cases it is used for communication. Parents of autistic children (with echolalia) can...

Autistic people have unique ways of communicating and interacting that are rooted in their unique ways of thinking and experiencing the...

Some individuals with ASD (especially those with high-functioning autism and Asperger syndrome) possess well-developed spoken language,...

The Intense World Syndrome and other ‘sensory theories’ Although already in the very first descriptions of autistic children, researchers...

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...