Between June 2020 – Feb 2021, I participated in over a dozen online surveys relating to adult autistic experience (more info here). Most were research projects focused on the very things I was living at the time – mental health & suicidality, autistic burnout, financial not-so-well-being, among others – and the surveys provided me a […]
Between June 2020 – Feb 2021, I participated in over a dozen online surveys relating to adult autistic experience (more info here). Most were research projects focused on the very things I was experiencing at the time – mental health & suicidality, autistic burnout, financial not-so-well-being, among others – and the surveys provided me a
Surveying The Terrain III: ARCAP Research Priorities of Autistic People Read More »
In my ‘Glossary Of Terms I Won’t Be Using’, I include ‘identifies as’ as a popular term I avoid in relation to my own autism; I also mention having a few ‘personal harumphs’ about the term, so I’ll attempt to explain my thinking a bit in this article. The notion of ‘identity’ itself is infinitely
Identity Beyond Autism Read More »
This is a question I’ve been interrogating since my self-assessment at 53 as apparently having an Aspergers-flavoured autistic neurology. I say ‘apparently’, not because I doubt it, but because it is still only one description of my experience, among many – or to paraphrase Dr. Stephen Shore: when you’ve met one description of reality, you’ve
Is My ‘Otherness’ Autistic? Read More »
Between June 2020 – Feb 2021, I participated in over a dozen online surveys relating to adult autistic experience (more info here). Most were research projects focused on the very things I was living at the time – mental health & suicidality, autistic burnout, financial not-so-well-being, among others – and the surveys provided me a
Surveying the Terrain II: The AQ Test Read More »
Between June 2020 – Feb 2021, I participated in over a dozen online surveys relating to adult autistic experience (more info here). Most were research projects focused on the very things I was living at the time – mental health & suicidality, autistic burnout, financial not-so-well-being, among others – and the surveys provided me a
Surveying the Terrain I: The EQ Test Read More »
NB – While much of this article is a criticism, I also want to acknowledge that some of the surveys I encountered were well-considered and designed with more care toward autistic processes. I will highlight these surveys later in this series as models of good practice. Researchers are often limited to using or adapting existing
Autism Surveys series: Intro Read More »
