The campaign is moving. This is where we document it.https://autisticprideday.org/en-AUhttps://autisticprideday.org/allyship/https://autisticprideday.org/allyship/Allyship is something you do. It is not something you are.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/newly-identified/https://autisticprideday.org/newly-identified/You have not become Autistic. You have always been Autistic. What has changed is that you now have a word for it, and a community, and a way of reading your own life.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/the-numbers/https://autisticprideday.org/the-numbers/Autism prevalence is often quoted as one in a hundred, one in seventy, one in forty four, depending on who you ask and where they are counting. The numbers vary. They are not the story.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autism-and-medicine/https://autisticprideday.org/autism-and-medicine/If you are Autistic and you have had a bad experience in a medical setting, you are not unusual. You are in the majority.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autism-in-later-life/https://autisticprideday.org/autism-in-later-life/The late diagnosis cohort is moving into its fifties, sixties, seventies, and the public conversation about autism has not caught up.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autism-went-mainstream-the-systems-did-not/https://autisticprideday.org/autism-went-mainstream-the-systems-did-not/We’ve run Think Autism four times now and I still can’t predict how the day will go.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autism-and-school/https://autisticprideday.org/autism-and-school/Most Autistic adults carry some version of school trauma. The setting failed us early, and it failed us consistently, and many of us did not recover the relationship with learning that we might otherwise have had.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autistic-pride-day-is-no-longer-one-day/https://autisticprideday.org/autistic-pride-day-is-no-longer-one-day/Originally created on 18 June 2005 by autistic led advocacy group Aspies for Freedom, Autistic Pride Day was built as a day for autistic people to define themselves on their own terms.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/parenting-an-autistic-child/https://autisticprideday.org/parenting-an-autistic-child/Most advice about parenting an Autistic child is written for the parent’s anxiety, not the child’s life. The advice tends to be procedural. What to do when they melt down. How to get them to eat.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autistic-parents/https://autisticprideday.org/autistic-parents/There are a lot of books written about parenting an Autistic child. There are very few books written about being a parent who is Autistic. The two are different topics.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autistic-children-social-skills/https://autisticprideday.org/autistic-children-social-skills/When an Autistic child plays alone, someone usually writes it down as a concern. The same child, absorbed and happy, alone by choice, looking for something specific in a toy no one else noticed. That is not a deficit.Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/non-speaking/https://autisticprideday.org/non-speaking/Some of us do not speak. Some of us spoke once and do not anymore. Some of us speak on good days and not on bad ones. Some of us speak in some contexts and not in others.Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autism-and-sleep/https://autisticprideday.org/autism-and-sleep/A large proportion of Autistic people do not sleep well. The figure is sometimes quoted at sixty to eighty percent.Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autism-and-the-internet/https://autisticprideday.org/autism-and-the-internet/The internet was built by people with our brain. That is not a romantic claim. It is a demographic observation about who has spent the last sixty years designing computer systems, networks, protocols, and interfaces.Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autistic-relationships/https://autisticprideday.org/autistic-relationships/Autistic relationships do not look like what the magazines describe. The magazines are describing non Autistic relationships. We have been reading them our whole lives and wondering why the formula has never applied.Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autistic-culture/https://autisticprideday.org/autistic-culture/Autistic culture exists. It does not have a national flag or an anthem, though it has a symbol. It has an aesthetic. It has humour. It has shared references, shared rituals, shared hospitality rules.Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/special-interests/https://autisticprideday.org/special-interests/A SPIN is a specific intense interest. It is not a hobby. It is not a distraction. It is not a phase.Tue, 22 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autistic-joy/https://autisticprideday.org/autistic-joy/Most public writing about autism is heavy. It has to be. The systems are failing us and the record needs to stay visible. But a campaign that only speaks in the register of harm has not understood what it is defending.Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/why-pride/https://autisticprideday.org/why-pride/People ask us why we use the word pride. Why not awareness. Why not acceptance. Why the language of the gay rights movement in a disability context. The question is fair and the answer is specific.Wed, 18 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/audhd/https://autisticprideday.org/audhd/Many of us are both Autistic and ADHD. The word we use is AuDHD. The overlap is large enough that clinicians once argued about whether the conditions could co occur.Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autism-is-a-disability/https://autisticprideday.org/autism-is-a-disability/A lot of campaigns about autism avoid the word disability. Neurodiversity, difference, divergence, variant, are used instead. The reasoning is usually kind.Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/how-we-think/https://autisticprideday.org/how-we-think/Autistic thinking is often described, by non Autistic people, in the negative. Difficulty with generalisation. Difficulty with abstraction. Difficulty with executive function.Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/identity-first-language/https://autisticprideday.org/identity-first-language/We say Autistic person. Not person with autism. The preference is not cosmetic. It is political, and it is specific, and the community has been clear about it for a long time.Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/not-a-disorder/https://autisticprideday.org/not-a-disorder/The clinical world still calls it Autism Spectrum Disorder. We do not use that term here. The word disorder is a claim about us, made without us, and it follows us into every room our lives pass through. Schools.Mon, 03 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/diagnosis-history/https://autisticprideday.org/diagnosis-history/Autism as a clinical category is younger than most people assume. The word entered the medical literature in the 1940s.Tue, 14 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autistic-burnout/https://autisticprideday.org/autistic-burnout/The week I went into burnout, I cancelled three meetings I had been looking forward to and then sat on the floor for an hour because I could not work out what to eat. I had been managing fine the week before.Mon, 16 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/augie-the-ai-seat/https://autisticprideday.org/augie-the-ai-seat/Every advisory board has a chair, a secretary, and a quorum. Ours has something else.Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/celebrate-autistic-pride-day-with-our-toolkit-digital-event/https://autisticprideday.org/celebrate-autistic-pride-day-with-our-toolkit-digital-event/18 June 2024, Sydney, Australia, Today, we celebrate Autistic Pride Day, a day dedicated to honouring and recognising the unique talents, perspectives, and contributions of Autistic individuals around the world.Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/save-the-date-autistic-pride-symposium-2024-in-sydney/https://autisticprideday.org/save-the-date-autistic-pride-symposium-2024-in-sydney/19 January 2024Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/think-autism-conference-and-community-workshops-sydney/https://autisticprideday.org/think-autism-conference-and-community-workshops-sydney/This isn’t just an event. It’s how we invest in the future of autistic entrepreneurship. At Just Gold, we don’t just talk about inclusion, we design for it.Wed, 04 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/how-to-unmask/https://autisticprideday.org/how-to-unmask/Unmasking is not a single act. It is a series of choices made across years, in specific rooms, with specific people, about which parts of ourselves we are going to stop hiding.Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/on-masking/https://autisticprideday.org/on-masking/Masking is the word we use for the work of pretending to be a non Autistic person.Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/join-us-for-autistic-pride-day-melbourne-symposium-on-18-june-23/https://autisticprideday.org/join-us-for-autistic-pride-day-melbourne-symposium-on-18-june-23/I13 June 2023Tue, 04 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/what-i-wish-i-had-known/https://autisticprideday.org/what-i-wish-i-had-known/I wish I had known that the exhaustion was not moral. That the way I fell apart after social events was not a character flaw, not introversion gone wrong, not a failure of willpower, but a nervous system paying its bill.Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/autism-and-women/https://autisticprideday.org/autism-and-women/For most of the history of Autism diagnosis, the clinical tools were built on observations of boys.Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/the-autistic-pride-day-symposium-2024-comes-to-melbourne-sydney/https://autisticprideday.org/the-autistic-pride-day-symposium-2024-comes-to-melbourne-sydney/Following the groundbreaking success of last year’s inaugural event, the Autistic Pride Day Symposium is set to return in 2024 with an expanded vision, reaching both Melbourne and Sydney.Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/sensory-experience/https://autisticprideday.org/sensory-experience/The world arrives at us differently. Not more, not less, differently. The fluorescent light that nobody else registers is a fluorescent light I have been counting for an hour.Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/take-off-the-mask-this-autistic-pride-day/https://autisticprideday.org/take-off-the-mask-this-autistic-pride-day/For too long, Autistic individuals have felt pressure to camouflage their authentic Autistic traits and behaviours, suppressing natural stimming, masking special interests, and altering communication styles.Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/on-shutdowns/https://autisticprideday.org/on-shutdowns/Shutdowns look like nothing is happening. That is why they are the version of distress the system most reliably ignores.Tue, 27 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://autisticprideday.org/meltdown-not-tantrum/https://autisticprideday.org/meltdown-not-tantrum/A meltdown is your nervous system in an emergency. A tantrum is a negotiation tactic. They look similar to an outsider. They are not the same thing, and the insistence that they are has done enormous damage.Tue, 23 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT