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- 3 August 2026The five stages of autistic burnout — and why the recovery tells you what caused itA new lived-experience model maps autistic burnout across five stages. The most telling part isn’t the collapse — it’s what the recovery requires to happen.
- 31 July 2026Neurodivergent students carry twice the emotional burden at schoolNeurodivergent students carry roughly double the emotional burden at school — and a new study shows it’s built into the environment, not the child.
- 30 July 2026Pathological demand avoidance — what’s real underneath a PDA diagnosis that can’t be validatedA systematic review finds the PDA diagnosis rests on circular logic. But something real sits underneath it — and the honest question isn’t whether PDA is real.
- 29 July 2026Neural tracking of social navigation in autistic brains — do autistic people build social maps differently?A 7T fMRI study went looking for a broken social brain in autism. The map-building machinery came back intact across every group — the difference is elsewhere.
- 28 July 2026The business case for neurodiversity isn’t working — three years of data, and the talent is still leavingThree years of UK data on neurodiversity at work and the metric that matters hasn’t moved. The talent isn’t waiting to be included, it’s leaving to go it alone.
- 27 July 2026Why so many women are diagnosed with ADHD in perimenopauseMost women in a new study were diagnosed with ADHD only after perimenopause. The ADHD was always there — what left was the ability to compensate for it.
- 24 July 2026ADHD’s strengths just got their first systematic review — and the fact that it took until 2026 is the real findingADHD’s strengths just got their first-ever systematic review — 125 studies. That the question waited until 2026 to be asked is the finding that matters.
- 23 July 2026Neurodiversity-affirming mental health promotion is indeed overdue — but Autistic Barbie is the tell that we’re not yet thinking critically about itA paper makes the right case: mental health promotion must shift from fixing individuals to changing environments. Then it celebrates Autistic Barbie: the tell.
- 22 July 2026The real driver of autism and ADHD overdiagnosis — why “neurodivergent” became a diagnosis people want, and when it happenedA paper blames autism and ADHD overdiagnosis on loose criteria. The real engine is older: the day “divergent” flipped from deficit to an identity people want.
- 21 July 2026Why autistic children stim — and why it reads as an executive deficitA study links stimming to “executive difficulty” in autistic children. But the deficit may be in the measure — a monotropic mind judged by a polytropic norm.
- 20 July 2026Psychiatry questions itself — Robert Spitzer, autism, and the DSM’s founding ironyA Lancet essay reads the DSM’s architect through the neurodiversity lens he’d have had no category for: and shows a field, for once, turning its gaze on itself.
- 3 July 2026Autistic people named Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria years ago — but the research is still scrambling to catch upAutistic people use Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria to name something vivid and real. The research can barely find it: and the few studies can’t agree what it is.
- 2 July 2026Gambling harm is concentrated in ADHD and autistic people — and the industry is built to exploit exactly thatADHD is several times more common among people harmed by gambling — not from weak willpower, but because the product is built to exploit exactly that neurology.
- 1 July 2026Autism doesn’t cause faster ageing — but autistic people are dying of conditions caught too lateThe first review of ageing in autism finds no accelerated decline — but a system that catches cardiovascular danger too late, and research that ignores most.
- 30 June 2026ADHD symptoms shift across the menstrual cycle — and almost nobody studied itADHD symptoms shift with the menstrual cycle — worse in the luteal phase, with stimulants working less. The research gap is the underdiagnosis machine itself.
- 29 June 202686% of neurodivergent children dread school — and being made to attend isn’t the same as being helped86% of neurodivergent children dread school; and the data says parental background predicts nothing — but caring teachers and friends predict everything.
- 26 June 2026Virtual autism IS real autism, induced rather than imitated — and the irony of an Age that manufactures it AND medicalises it“Virtual autism” isn’t autism imitation. It’s the same real substrate, induced by cybernetics — which then medicalises it so the person continues to contribute.
- 25 June 2026BMJ’s state-of-the-art ADHD review ignores neurodiversity — and claims to be “diversity-affirming” anywayBMJ’s 2026 state-of-the-art ADHD review catalogues sixty pages of management and mentions neurodiversity twice — then calls itself “diversity-affirming.”
- 24 June 2026Anxiety and depression in neurodivergent adults — the cost of lifelong frictionADHD predicts depression. Autism predicts anxiety. Hargitai et al.’s N=4,996 dataset shows internalising is the cost of friction with the round hole.
- 23 June 2026Childhood trauma carves the cognitive profile diagnostic criteria catches as “ADHD” — and the cybernetic age has normalised the carvingHöfels’ umbrella review (639 studies) shows childhood trauma writes the ADHD cognitive signature. The cybernetic age has normalised the trauma producing it.
- 22 June 2026AI scaffolding won’t fix what cybernetics engineered into digital work for ADHD professionalsDigital work was engineered cybernetically. The ADHD substrate doesn’t fit. Deshmukh proposes AI scaffolding — more of the apparatus that produced the mismatch.
- 10 June 2026Standard research scales pathologise neurodivergent students — measuring the mask, not the studentBailey & Baker’s MELA validation (n=213) exposes how standard engagement scales coerce autistic camouflage. The apparatus measures the mask, not the student.
- 9 June 2026Hypoconnectivity, hyperconnectivity, and the autism archetype — what the new Nature Neuroscience subtypes evidence does and doesn’t changeNature Neuroscience identifies two biological subtypes of autism — the substrate varies, the archetype holds; empirical vindication of the frame.
- 8 June 2026The architectural arc from school exclusion to neurodivergent homelessness — “Society Doesn’t Care About You”12% of homeless people are autistic versus 1-2% generally — the architectural arc from school exclusion to neurodivergent homelessness; now studied.
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