There is huge variety within the autistic population. While all autistic people have some sensory, social, and behavioural differences, these can vary widely between different autistic people and within the same person, both over their lifetime and between different environments and stress levels.

Many of the challenges autistic people face are not self-perceived as ‘symptoms’ of their autism but as difficulties created by their environment: a society that largely refuses to make accommodations for people with cognitive/invisible disabilities.