Research
Theoretical work on autistic cognition, interoception, and compensation processes. Preprints deposited on Zenodo with DOI.
AURA Protocol: Adapted Hospital Access Methodology for Patients with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Preprint · Zenodo · 2026
This paper documents the clinical needs of an ASD community in a territory with no formalised hospital access protocol, and proposes a replicable operational framework for heterogeneous hospital settings. A mixed observational descriptive study (N=15, structured 23-item questionnaire) identifies four critical domains with mean severity above 4/5. Three sequential interventions reach consensus between 87% and 100% across respondents. The paper introduces the Adaptive Sensory Triage (AST), a seven-domain institution-side profiling mechanism designed to replace the static patient-carried hospital passport with an integrated clinical accommodation process.
Anticipatory Scripting in High-Masking Autistic Adults
Preprint · Zenodo · 2026
This paper proposes anticipatory scripting as a distinct clinical construct: the systematic pre-session generation of conversational trajectories, provisional interpretations, and affective weightings by autistic adults with high cognitive ability. Drawing on a single systematic autoethnographic case, the paper argues that this mechanism may preempt the transformative function of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, producing sessions that appear productive at the level of content while remaining static at the level of process. Four clinical indicators are identified and three preliminary hypotheses regarding disruption conditions are proposed.
Situating Epiphanesthesia in Existing Research
Preprint · Zenodo · 2026
This paper proposes epiphanesthesia as a candidate third functional category of interoceptive content, distinct from physiological homeostatic signals and emotional substrates. The construct is mapped against five research traditions: the aha-experience literature, Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis, Gendlin's felt sense, the frisson literature, and embodied cognition. A neurobiological hypothesis implicates the anterior insula as the candidate substrate, with four testable predictions centred on a dissociation between epiphanesthesic and affective-interoceptive signals in alexithymia.