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- 4 September 2026Positive emotions in autism — autistic joy was never missing, the research just never measured itA scoping review of 72 studies finds no overall difference in autistic positive emotion — and no research at all on awe, gratitude, hope or love.
- 3 September 2026When “improvement” means playing less like yourself — the assumptions built into autistic play researchA review of autistic play research finds deficit assumptions built into the outcome measures themselves — and solitary play doing unrecognised work.
- 2 September 2026Quality of life in autism — what a 216-study meta-analysis foundA 216-study meta-analysis finds autistic young people score 21.7 points lower on quality of life — and the shape of the gap points at the environment.
- 1 September 2026ADHD is a construct — and Channel 4 still got it wrong in The Great ADHD Myth?Channel 4’s documentary called ADHD a social construct and implied a myth. The first claim has merit. The second doesn’t follow — and it matters.
- 31 August 2026The Ombudsman has audited the ADHD and autism services system — and found people fighting it, not using itThe Ombudsman analysed 3,000 complaints about ADHD and autism services: a postcode lottery, a legal right kept quiet, and a system people fight.
- 28 August 2026The neurotypical norm is being automated — AI at work as gatekeeper and as scaffoldAI systems already encode bias against neurodivergence-related terms — and screen candidates before a human looks. The same technology also helps.
- 27 August 2026Treat the parent, and the child improves — what a landmark ADHD trial shows about the family systemA randomised trial treated the parent’s ADHD, not the child’s. The children — none medicated, none in therapy — improved significantly faster anyway.
- 26 August 2026ADHD has a sensory dimension — and neither the diagnostic criteria nor a single intervention mentions itThirteen studies document sensory processing differences in ADHD across the lifespan. The diagnostic criteria don’t mention it. Neither does any intervention.
- 25 August 2026A diagnosis buried in the closet — on learning, years late, what everyone else already knewTwenty-two autistic adults in South Korea on how they learned of their diagnosis — some by accident, years late, from papers hidden in a closet.
- 24 August 2026Hogger v Genesis PR — what the tribunal actually foundHogger v Genesis PR is Britain’s most-cited ADHD tribunal ruling. The written Reasons say something different — and almost nobody read them.
- 21 August 2026Resisting neuro-normativity when parenting neurodivergent childrenA new framework reads what families of neurodivergent children already do — eating apart, structuring life around the child — as resistance, not failure.
- 20 August 2026What the research shows about social media and self-esteem in autism and ADHDSixteen studies on social media and self-esteem in autism and ADHD. The findings split by neurotype — but the split follows what the research chose to look for.
- 19 August 2026What twice-exceptional adults say school got wrongSeventeen gifted autistic adults, diagnosed at an average age of thirty-four, look back at school — and describe two exceptionalities it saw neither of.
- 18 August 2026The four reasons why autistic employees lack psychological safety at workPsychological safety was the workplace metric that didn’t move. A new paper names the four barriers that keep autistic employees — and leaders — without it.
- 17 August 2026Absorbed, trapped, or lost — why ADHD hyperfocus isn’t flow, and what the difference tells you about attentionSeven ADHD adults describe hyperfocus from inside: no on switch, no off switch, total control in between. Why it isn’t flow — and what that tells you.
- 14 August 2026ADHD survives because it’s useful to the system, not because it names a single thingA position paper argues ADHD is a pragmatic construct, not a single biological entity — and that the category survives partly because systems need it.
- 13 August 2026Twice-exceptional students — when giftedness and neurodivergence hide each other, and the support system sees neitherTwice-exceptional students are gifted and neurodivergent at once — and new research shows each exceptionality hides the other from a system built for neither.
- 12 August 2026ADHD shame isn’t a symptom — it’s the sediment of a thousand correctionsA clinical viewpoint on shame in ADHD: repeated corrections harden into identity, until a missed deadline confirms a verdict instead of any actual symptom.
- 11 August 2026ADHD’s mortality gap is real — and it’s widest for exactly the people the system finds lastADHD carries a real premature mortality gap — and a new Cardiff review shows it is widest for the late-diagnosed, women, and those that are least supported.
- 10 August 2026Autistic adults find conversation easier with other autistic people — the double empathy problem, measured from the insideAutistic adults say conversation with allistic partners takes more effort, masking and cognitive load. New survey data measures double empathy from inside.
- 7 August 2026Six years of neurodiversity coverage in the creative press — and the word “policy” appears in four articles out of 54Six years of neurodiversity coverage in the creative trade press, and the word “policy” appears in four articles out of 54. That absence explains a lot.
- 6 August 2026Masking, monotropism and autistic burnout all came from the community first — and every one would have been coded “misleading”Masking, monotropism and autistic burnout all came from community accounts before research caught up — and each would have been coded misleading at the time.
- 5 August 2026Autistic youth use sexual health services far less than their peers — and the barrier is the door, not what’s behind itHalf a million Swedish youth records show autistic young people using sexual health services far less than peers — and the barrier sits at the door, not inside.
- 4 August 2026Attention Autism is in schools across the UK on the strength of five studies — here’s what they actually showAttention Autism is used across UK early years settings. The evidence is five studies, two peer-reviewed, none delivered as designed — here’s what they show.
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