What if everything we thought we knew about autistic communication was wrong? For decades, autism has been described through a lens of deficit. Communication differences were framed as “deficits.” ...

For most of human history, the mind was a mystery box. Behavior emerged, and we simply accepted it—strange, brilliant, troubled, gifted. But today, we peer inside that box. We map genes. We track ...

But emerging perspectives invite us to see things differently. Rather than a deficit framework, autistic people have distinct ways of communicating—rooted in our culture, values, and neurology. The ...