Scientific foundation - Autistic Mirror
89 of 97 mechanism entries are peer-reviewed by DOI; the rest encode autistic community knowledge, labelled. Publicly verifiable.
- ableist language guidance
- alexithymia
- anxiety
- aphantasia
- workplace and employment (autism)
- ARFID
- AuDHD
- auditory processing disorder
- autism + PTSD
- autistic inertia
- autistic catatonia
- autistic burnout
- autistic parenting
- employment interview masking
- deliberate eye contact adaptation
- body doubling
- BPD misdiagnosis in autistic women
- camouflaging
- co-regulation / dyadic affect regulation
- default mode network
- depression
- diagnostic overshadowing
- double empathy problem
- dyslexia / dyscalculia in autism
- dyspraxia
- echolalia
- Ehlers-Danlos
- enhanced perceptual functioning
- epilepsy in autism
- eating disorders (anorexia) + autism
- executive dysfunction
- fawn response
- memory and aging in autism
- gender diversity + autism
- sex ratio diagnostic bias
- gestalt language processing
- GI
- HPA axis
- hyperacusis (decreased sound tolerance)
- hyper-empathy
- hyperlexia
- iatrogenic misdiagnosis cascade
- identity-first language
- interoception
- intolerance of uncertainty
- joint attention
- AI tools for autistic people
- physical disability / chronic illness + autism (healthcare access)
- long COVID in autistic people
- loud hands
- masking
- menopause + autism
- migration / ethnic minority diagnostic bias
- misophonia in autism
- monotropism
- autistic-to-autistic rapport / peer transfer
- neurodiversity-affirming practice
- object impermanence (AuDHD)
- OCD
- PDA
- phatic communion
- post-diagnostic support gap
- POTS
- predictive coding
- predictive processing in language
- prosopagnosia
- racial diagnostic bias
- sensory filter exhaustion
- rejection sensitive dysphoria
- restraint collapse
- sleep architecture
- self-identification as autistic
- selective mutism
- sensory perception in autism
- sensory gating
- sensory seeking and sensory avoiding
- sexual orientation in autistic people
- shutdown vs meltdown
- social synchrony in mixed dyads
- social media information bias on autism
- social scripting
- socioeconomic access to autism diagnosis
- late-identified autism
- special interests
- splinter skills
- spoon theory
- stimming
- stress response
- substance use in autism
- suicidality in autistic adults
- synaesthesia
- theory-of-mind deficit hypothesis (empirically refuted)
- time blindness
- Tourette / tics in autism
- triad of impairments
- vestibular and proprioceptive processing
- circadian sleep disturbance in autism