Autistic people often struggle to tell when they’re too hot. Here are five ways to help

By Daniel Piulats Vilá, Profesor universitario, Universitat de Barcelona

Our senses provide us with fundamental information about ourselves and our surroundings. This includes what and where objects are, the speed of our own movement, the safety of substances we ingest, and the temperature of objects and our environment. However, like all sensory systems, our senses have a limited range.

Recent decades have seen a year-on-year increase in clinical diagnoses of autism. Unfortunately, autism and temperature regulation problems often…

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