When Australian researchers surveyed 859 trans and gender-diverse young people aged 14–25 about their lives, one number stopped them mid-analysis. Almost a quarter — 22.5 per cent — had been diagnosed with autism. The Australian study, known as Trans Pathways and led by Penelope Strauss at The Kids Research Institute Australia, was at the time…

On 16 February 2026, a Tasmanian pharmacist handed a woman her Vyvanse. There was no fanfare, no press conference at the counter. But two weeks earlier, that same woman, holding that same interstate script from her Melbourne psychiatrist, would have walked out empty-handed. For years, Tasmania had been the last Australian state where a valid…

There is a moment every AuDHD parent knows by heart. It happens at the school gate, about four metres before the car door closes. The child walks out holding it together — shoulders rigid, eyes down, bag strap twisted — and then the seatbelt clicks and the entire day falls out of them: the unfairness…

By the time most Australians with AuDHD learn the word hypermobility, they have already visited a dozen specialists. The shoulder that dislocates in their sleep has been called clumsy. The stomach that refuses food has been called anxious. The dizziness on standing has been called deconditioning. The chronic fatigue has been called depression. Somewhere in…

For thousands of Australian women who have finally — after years, sometimes decades — found a medication that lets them think, plan and stay upright in their own lives, a positive pregnancy test can feel like the start of a countdown. Not to birth. To a decision that used to be framed as simple: stop…

On a Monday in December, almost no one noticed, a regulator changed the floor under every psychology room in the country. From 1 December 2025, the Psychology Board of Australia’s first-ever binding Code of Conduct and updated core competencies came into force, and tucked inside the legalese was something AuDHD Australians have been waiting on…

Only 25 percent of neurodivergent workers say they feel “truly included” in their job. Nine in ten hit at least one barrier when they try to move into a new role. Nearly four in ten plan to quit within the year. Those are the headline findings of the EY Global Neuroinclusion at Work Study 2025,…

If you want to understand how autism is talked about in this country right now, look at a single Crikey headline from last Monday. “NDIS headlines are turning autistic people into the new dole bludgers.” That was the title the cultural critic Dr Clem Bastow put on her column on 13 April. A week later,…

There is a moment many Australian parents describe, almost word for word, when they first hear their child’s diagnosis. The clinician says autism, or ADHD, or — more and more often — both. The parent nods. They ask the practical questions about therapy, the NDIS, school. And then, somewhere on the drive home, a second…