Health, Sports & Psychology
Struggling in silence: Why we need to talk about autistic people’s experiences of menstruation
...physical realities of periods are likely to affect autistic people. We know that autistic people often have sensory processing differences – and periods are, in their essence, physical processes that affect most of the senses. Similarly, hormonal changes can affect autistic people’s emotional processing, exacerbate any existing mental health difficulties and amplify...
