At this point, if you're active in the autism community and you've not heard of Heartbreak High, then where have you been? I'm joking of course, i'm sure there are people who haven't. But I think this show has already very much solidified itself as a very important piece of media in the Autistic community, being one of the first shows to have an autistic actor play an autistic role. This show is constantly being praised and will go down in autism history for it's representati

It's 2012. I am a little ten year old, I get home after brownies or guides or whatever I was at at the time, and I sit down to watch a new TV show with my parents. It's called touch. It's 2026. I am a 24 year old who now knows they're autistic, and every so often randomly remembers this TV show that felt like a fever dream because it's so obscure no one ever mentions it. And I remember that one of the main characters was an autistic boy. And so, after hunting it down and payi

When you’ve just started to figure out that you might be autistic, it can be a really big and scary world to navigate. So here are some things I would say to my 18 year old self, as I just started going on that journey myself. Hopefully this might be useful to someone who has also just started their journey too. Things will settle At first, it feels like the whole world has been turned upside down. You’ve put on the autism goggles, and now everything, every interaction, every

The first and most important thing to understand about the diagnostic levels of autism, is that they are only implemented when one is diagnosed based of the DSM criteria. Anyone diagnosed based of the ICD or any other criteria, will most likely not be given a level upon diagnosis. Not everyone is diagnosed with a level, and that means that not everyone will know for sure what level they are. Another important thing to note, is that the diagnostic levels only serve a clinical