Research suggests that around 40% of autistic children and up to 50% of adults with autism experience an anxiety disorder. But numbers alone don’t explain why. A key issue is that anxiety is often treated as the root problem rather than a response to underlying experiences, something that can lead to well-meaning but mismatched interventions.

This piece looks at how anxiety presents in autistic people, what drives it, and why effective support often means reducing triggers rather than just managing symptoms.

Far from ordinary exhaustion, autistic burnout is a deep loss of energy, skills, and tolerance caused by chronic overload. This article explains autistic burnout through lived experience, research, and the hidden toll of masking in everyday life.

You can’t see when a nervous system is at its limit; you only see the behaviour. And behaviour, without context, is easy to misunderstand. Being misread in those moments isn’t just frustrating; it adds to the overload, layering extra pressure onto what the person is already carrying.