APUK Blog

Exposure anxiety is the "excruciating sense of audience to one’s own existence".

This piece discusses the later impact of childhood trauma and the recovery process, but does not go into details of specific events.

Why are rates of mental illness so much higher in autistic people, and what can be done to help?

Why is the rate of suicide so high in autistic people, and what can be done about it?

by Zoe Williams Autistic burnout is an experience that is only just beginning to gain formal recognition, despite the fact that Autistic people have been talking and writing about it for years. In fact, an informal poll of our Facebook group showed that a whopping 97% of respondents thought they had experienced autistic burnout (although bear in mind that people are much more likely to respond to polls like this if they have experienced burnout than if they haven't). At th

Account and artwork by Esther Whitney (aka Doctor Doom) In the third trimester, I became all-consumed by anxiety about becoming a mother. It was my first baby and I couldn’t imagine what it would be like, or whether I would cope. The closest comparison I had was my training as a nursery nurse. I expressed my overwhelming anxieties about motherhood to professionals hoping that they would provide some reassurance and support. Unfortunately, I was repeatedly told that they coul

By Autistic Selves After we were first diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), we worked towards total integration of all of...