Outside View
Understanding instead of training. Guides and background knowledge for parents, partners, professionals, and friends.
Product 2 Articles
AI Risks - Why Generative AI Can Be Dangerous for Autistic People
Generative AI gives autistic people harmful advice. Deficit framing, ABA recommendations, missing crisis detection. What guided AI does differently.
I built an app because I love people. Now the world's most important autism journal is reviewing it.
Autistic Mirror has been submitted for peer review to a leading scientific journal. What that means – and why independent review matters.
Parents 3 Articles
My Child Is Autistic - What Now?
Orientation after your child's autism diagnosis
Autism in Early Childhood - When Behaviour Is a Language
How autistic children experience transitions, circle time, and group routines - and why their behaviour is communication.
Grandparent Guide: Understanding Instead of Comparing
Diagnosis acceptance, generational conflicts, and autism-friendly visits
Partners & Family 3 Articles
Understanding Your Autistic Partner
Understanding relationship dynamics neurologically
My Sibling Is Autistic - What Does That Mean for Us?
Understanding and navigating sibling relationships neurologically
Understanding Autistic Friendship - A Guide for Friends
Understanding and supporting friendship dynamics neurologically
Professionals 8 Articles
Daycare in Practice: Spaces, Senses, and Supporting Autistic Children
Concrete tools for educators: room design, sensory reduction, understanding solo play, and parent conversations.
Autism-Informed Therapy - A Guide for Therapists
Adapting therapeutic approaches to autistic cognition
Autism in the Workplace: A Guide for Employers
Inclusive work environment for autistic employees
Autism in the Classroom - A Guide for Teachers
Understanding autistic perception in the classroom and teaching inclusively
Recognising and Referring Autism: A Guide for GPs
Recognising autism in general practice and referring
Job Coach Guide: Supporting Autistic Clients Neurologically
Disclosure strategies, recognising autistic burnout, mediating Double Empathy in teams, and structuring onboarding neurologically.
Colleague Guide: Understanding Your Autistic Teammate
Direct communication, sensory needs in the office, and how collaboration works without misunderstandings.
Autism School Support: Guide for School Aides
Support vs. autonomy, understanding meltdowns during breaks, and communicating with teachers about autistic neurology.
Background Knowledge 16 Articles
Understanding what happens during your child's / partner's crisis
Meltdown and Shutdown - What Really Happens
A meltdown is not a tantrum. A shutdown is not laziness. Both are neurological overload reactions with different mechanisms.
Why this behaviour should not be stopped
Understanding Stimming
Stimming is neurological self-regulation, not a behaviour problem. What repetitive movements do in the nervous system and why suppression causes harm.
What sensory overload means
Sensory Overload - Why Your Nervous System Does Not Filter
Sensory overload is not hypersensitivity. It is a nervous system without automatic filters. What happens in the brain and which environmental adjustments help.
Why autistic people mask who they are
Masking - The Cost of Adaptation
Why masking is so exhausting, how to recognise it, and what happens long-term. Neurological mechanisms instead of behavioural advice.
When compensation breaks down
Recognising Autistic Burnout
Autistic burnout is not weakness. It is a nervous system that has been compensating for too long. Why skills disappear, how it differs from depression, and what helps.
When demands become threats
PDA Profile - When Demands Become Threats
PDA (Pervasive Drive for Autonomy) explained: Why autistic nervous systems process demands as threats and how PDA differs from defiance.
What really happens in the classroom
Autism and School
School refusal, daily after-school meltdowns, conflicts with teachers. What happens in the autistic nervous system and which accommodations help.
Why sleep works differently
Autism and Sleep
Why autistic people sleep differently. Monotropism, melatonin and shifted circadian rhythms explained neurologically.
Understanding selective eating
ARFID and Selective Eating in Autism
Why autistic people can't eat certain foods. ARFID explained from a neurological perspective - not pickiness, but sensory processing.
When words disappear
Speech Loss During Overload - When Words Disappear
Autistic speech loss is not a choice. Broca's area shuts down during overload. Why typing still works when speaking doesn't - and how others can help.
Why understanding is bidirectional
The Double Empathy Problem
The Double Empathy Problem shows that communication difficulties between autistic and neurotypical people are bidirectional. Neither side has a deficit.
Building safety together
What Your Body Is Missing - Co-Regulation in Autism
Your nervous system doesn't work in isolation. It reads your partner's signals and calibrates itself accordingly. Why physical presence is neurologically essential and what happens during separation.
How autistic attachment works
Why Autistic Children Choose Certain People
Autistic attachment follows neurological patterns. What drives the preference for specific caregivers and why it is not personal.
Why "just do it" does not work
Executive Function in Autism
Executive function in autism works differently. Monotropism, predictive coding and inertia explain why planning and starting tasks costs so much energy.
Why behavioural therapy causes harm
ABA Criticism - Why Behavioural Therapy Ignores the Mechanism
ABA conditions autistic behaviour away instead of understanding the neurology. Private equity makes it worse. Why the method causes harm and what the alternative is.
When a late diagnosis reframes childhood
Adult Children of Autistic Parents
When a parent's late diagnosis shifts the coordinates of an entire childhood. Double Empathy, Predictive Coding and parallel presence as a language of love.