How autistic are you? You might have asked yourself that before. Or someone else has. Or you hear about people saying that they have a “touch of the ‘tism” and you may have wondered to yourself: How much autism do I have? From the start, this question is incorrect.  When we think of spectrums, we usually think of a line with two polar opposite ends. Most people will fall in between the ends, a gray area that is a combination of both. The spectrum of autism is much more complex than just two...

Picture this:  You have people coming over soon.  You need to prepare food for them. You’re also starving right now.  Your house is an absolute mess.  And you need to get ready.  And you also have a very, very, very  important presentation tomorrow that you need to rehearse.  Aaaaaand the barista from earlier got your coffee order wrong. What a mess . What do you do? For most people, this might be a bit of a stressful crunch, but they manage to do everything. The coffee? Just throw it out, it...

We all hate when someone asks to do something right when we’re about to do it. It’s like, I was going to do it, but now that you’re telling me to do it, I don’t want to.” This is a common experience, to the point that there have been multiple rounds of memes about it.  While everyone experiences it, for autistic people, it’s not a joke. Being asked to do something can feel terrible, to the point of even painful at times.  As an autist, I personally would always hate when my mother would tell...