Assessment Articles

Below is a collection of diagnostic-focused writings related to autistic adults. While all are accessible to a general audience, some are geared toward healthcare professionals.

Updated sporadically.

High-Masking Autistic Adults: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals - Autism presents uniquely in each individual, which often complicates adult diagnosis. This is especially true for high-masking…

Patterns in Late-diagnosed Autistic Assessments - While everyone’s unique, struggling for decades before realizing you’re ND tends to have several fairly common effects on adults…

Differential Diagnosis - A differential diagnosis is the process of analyzing a client information to distinguish between various possible diagnoses…

Waitlists and Diagnosing Autism in Adults in Canada - Canadian adults waiting for a public autism assessment have to wait for years, and private assessments are too expensive…

Sexual Intimacy and Autism - Being autistic can affect sexual intimacy. While many factors unrelated to autism can influence sexual experiences—such as trauma, illness, religious beliefs…

Menopause, Menstruation, and Autism - Menopause in autistic people is a very under-studied area, though in recent years some research has…

Non-Stereotypical Presentations of Autism in Late-diagnosed Adults - Most healthcare practitioners are “behind the times” compared to the modern understanding of autism…