If you experience autistic shutdowns, you can reflect on signs that came up prior to a shutdown (after you are fully regulated and out of the shutdown, of course). Noticing patterns can help you ...

A new study has challenged the long-held assumption that autistic people are emotionally stunted, finding that, in fact, ...

They may shut down completely and stop responding in any way. Meltdowns are the body’s physical response to an overwhelming sensory or emotional experience. To support someone with autism during ...

Autistic meltdown can be debilitating for autistic adults. Learn how self-advocacy and self-acceptance can help prevent ...

She went into what she now sees as an autistic shutdown, a state of numbness where she could barely speak, and over the next two years crippling anxiety and detailed suicidal thoughts pushed her ...

Here's all about the link, including similarities and differences, between fragile X syndrome and autism spectrum disorder.

And by manipulating neurotransmitters to temporarily shut down the amygdala altogether, the researcher can make food invoke no emotional response whatsoever, he says. The latter, in effect, mimics the ...

Profound autism is a classification researchers have proposed for autistic people who share certain characteristics. These include having no or limited language ability, an intelligence quotient ...

which may result in the autistic student experiencing an explosion: frustration, aggressive panic attack (melt down: fight) or implosion: may not seem themselves, struggles to engage/communicate, ...

“So I just shut down,” she says ... But one email – from the National Autistic Society – stands out. They ask: does Holly realise that Harriet is autistic? “I’m like, 'How dare ...

I have been going through a chain of autistic meltdowns recently. I have attempted to take time off work and to rest, but my life is an unending labyrinth of stress and responsibility that I ...