June 22, 2022

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My book What I Mean When I Say I’m Autistic links to this page and contains information from the sources below. This page also includes resources that expand on concepts I briefly introduced in the book. The list is alphabetical by topic, and each topic is from a specific chapter.

You may also be interested in my free Glossary for young readers.

• Adult Diagnosis
  from Chapter 1: Discovery
  • I Think I Might Be Autistic: A Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis and Self-Discovery for Adults – book by Cynthia Kim
  • Adult Diagnosis – articles by Cynthia Kim
  • Is This Autism? A Guide for Clinicians and Everyone Else – book by Donna Henderson and Sarah Wayland with Jamell White

• Autism in Jane Eyre
  from Chapter 1: Discovery
  • “On the Spectrum”: Rereading Contact and Affect in Jane Eyre – paper by Julia Miele Rodas
  • Jane Eyre, Autistic Heroine – article by Annie Kotowicz

• Autism in Women & Girls
  from Chapter 1: Discovery
  • Women and Girls on the Autism Spectrum: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age – book by Sarah Hendrickx with Jess Hendrickx

• Autistic Inertia
  from Chapter 9: Quirks
  • Inertia – article by Autisticality
  • “No Way Out Except From External Intervention”: First-Hand Accounts of Autistic Inertia – study by Karen Leneh Buckle & others
  • Autistic Inertia – comic by Cy Popps

• Co-regulation
  from Chapter 11: Uplifting
  • Self-regulation Doesn’t Exist – article by Robyn Gobbel
  • The Co-Regulation Effect – article by Kate Double
  • Modern Emotion Regulation Supports for Neurodivergent Learners – article by Kelly Mahler
  • Regulation and Co-Regulation: Accessible Neuroscience and Connection Strategies that Bring Calm into the Classroom – book by Ginger Healy

• Double Empathy Problem
  from Chapter 7: Misunderstandings
  • Double Empathy: Why Autistic People Are Often Misunderstood – article by Catherine J. Crompton & others
  • Autistic peer-to-peer information transfer is highly effective – study by Catherine J. Crompton & others
  • Understanding Social Cognition in Autism – video by Templeton World Charity Foundation
  • On the Ontological Status of Autism: The “Double Empathy Problem” – paper by Damian Milton

• Intense World Theory
  from Chapter 2: Unpuzzling
  • Information gain in the brain’s resting state: A new perspective on autism – study by José L. Pérez Velázquez and Roberto F. Galán
  • Intense World: Autistic Brains Create 42% More Information at Rest – article by Jeremy Dean
  • Interview: Henry And Kamila Markram About The Intense World Theory For Autism – interview by Alex Plank
  • The Intense World Theory – a unifying theory of the neurobiology of autism – article by Kamila Markram and Henry Markram

• Monotropism
  from Chapter 2: Unpuzzling
  • Starting Points for Understanding Autism: Monotropism in Practice – article by Fergus Murray
  • Me and Monotropism: A unified theory of autism – article by Fergus Murray
  • Attention, monotropism and the diagnostic criteria for autism – paper by Dinah Murray & others
  • Embracing Autistic Children’s Monotropic Flow States – article by Helen Edgar
  • Monotropism Questionnaire – based on a study by Valeria Garau & others

• Predictive Coding Theory
  from Chapter 2: Unpuzzling
  • Does autism arise because the brain is continually surprised? – article by George Musser
  • An aberrant precision account of autism – study by Rebecca P. Lawson & others
  • Autism and The Predictive Brain – book by Peter Vermeulen

• Spoon Theory
  from Chapter 10: Optimizing
  • The Spoon Theory – article by Christine Miserandino
  • Teach Me About Spoon Theory – comic by Em Mainey

• Synesthesia
  from Chapter 9: Quirks
  • Is synaesthesia more common in autism? – study by Simon Baron-Cohen & others
  • Some Ways Autism & Synaesthesia Work Together – slideshow by Maike Preißing
  • Exploring the Intriguing Connection Between Synaesthesia and Autism – article by Reframing Autism

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