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It’s Christmas time again, and as with every year, I am hearing everywhere about how much autistic people hate Christmas. My family, almost all of us autistic, are atypically atypical this way. We love Christmas! As with so many autistic things, there are three things that create this love/hate polarisation. Sensory: Some people find the lights, crowds, and incessant Christmas...

What I found interesting in my research so far is that there is a common pattern of problems with: executive function, motivation (a lack of which is called a lot of things, including ‘apathy’), and initiation of movement (including slowness and getting stuck). These three areas of impairment (call it ‘Buckle’s triad of initiation impairments’ ;)) are commonly seen to...

I have finally written and submitted my first article on my inertia research. It hasn’t been reviewed yet, but for now I have uploaded it as a ‘preprint’ on PsyArXiv here: “No way out except from external intervention” first-hand accounts of autistic inertia. I’ve included the abstract at the bottom of this post. I’m putting a more accessible summary first....