Autistic Adults

Asking your healthcare provider the right questions is the first step to ensuring they can provide you with neuroaffirming care. For autistic adults, access challenges, communication differences, and research gaps all make a difference and need to be acknowledged. 

Reframing shameful thoughts can help you feel better about yourself as an autistic adult, a self-advocate says.

Autistic food aversion can make it hard to stay healthy, happy, and functional. Getting information, treatment, and support can help.

Dealing with autistic burnout in adulthood can be a huge challenge. Here are some tips that can help you cope.

Getting an adult autism assessment can be a lot to deal with late in life. Liv Robinson shares their story of late diagnosis.

Getting diagnosed isn’t necessary for every autistic adult in BC, but it can help improve some people’s personal growth, well-being, and social belonging.

Megan Flamand, an Indigenous Child and Youth Care Worker for Surrey Schools in BC, talks about her realization of being autistic after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

To improve the diagnosis and care of autistic women and girls, it is important to understand the unique challenges they face.

Shannon saw many clinicians in her journey to diagnosis. See just how much misinformation she had to wade through.

A recent AutismBC survey found many respondents couldn’t afford to get assessed and would have to wait months to see a professional. 

Caroline shares how she realized she is autistic and why she feels she will remain self-diagnosed.

Adult assessment for autism in BC can be difficult to get on your own. From doing research to getting your results, here are some of the things you should know before you start.