MARKETING AND AUTISM

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Discover how autism-informed A/B testing reveals response patterns that traditional conversion optimization misses. Learn to design tests that capture neurodivergent user preferences and buying behaviors.

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Autism-Informed A/B Testing: Beyond Neurotypical Response Patterns

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Nov 10, 2025 8:00:01 AM

Every A/B test you've ever run makes an invisible assumption: that your audience processes information, makes decisions, and responds to persuasion techniques the way neurotypical users do. This assumption isn't just limiting—it's actively hiding...

Autism Email Marketing A/B Testing
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Learn how autistic users exhibit distinct visual attention patterns in heat mapping data. Discover three examples of different browsing behaviors and compare Hotjar, Crazy Egg, and Microsoft Clarity for tracking neurodivergent user experiences.

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Heat Mapping Autistic User Behavior: Different Visual Attention Patterns

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Nov 10, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Your heat maps are lying to you. Not intentionally, but by showing you aggregate user behavior that assumes everyone processes visual information the...

Autism Website User Experience
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Discover how autistic consultants can leverage their unique cognitive strengths in service marketing through expertise-based positioning. Learn authentic strategies that align with autistic communication styles and professional values.

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Autistic Consultants and Service Marketing: Expertise-Based Positioning

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Nov 3, 2025 8:00:03 AM

The traditional playbook for marketing consulting services reads like a neurotypical social performance guide: network relentlessly, master small...

Autism Consulting Messaging
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Learn how autistic entrepreneurs can build authentic authority through expertise-driven brand ambassador strategies that leverage systematic thinking and deep knowledge without requiring neurotypical performance.

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Autistic Entrepreneurs as Brand Ambassadors

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Nov 3, 2025 8:00:02 AM

The prevailing wisdom in personal branding tells entrepreneurs to be everywhere: speaking at conferences, hosting networking events, appearing on...

Branding Autism Influencers Entrepreneurs
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Learn how to design content that accommodates sensory processing differences. Discover practical strategies for creating accessible, comfortable reading experiences for neurodivergent audiences.

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Content Design for Sensory-Friendly Reading Experiences

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Oct 27, 2025 8:00:03 AM

Most content creators design for the average reader—assuming standard processing speeds, typical attention spans, and neurotypical sensory responses....

Content strategy Autism Sensory Design
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Discover effective communication strategies for neurodivergent youth and their families. Learn practical techniques for reducing friction, building understanding, and creating supportive dialogue at home.

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Communication Strategies for Neurodivergent Youth and Their Families

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Oct 27, 2025 8:00:02 AM

Communication breakdowns between neurodivergent youth and their families aren't failures of love or effort—they're mismatches in processing styles,...

Neurodivergence Community Communication
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B2B email marketing to autistic decision-makers requires directness, specificity, and information density. Learn communication styles that improve engagement and conversion rates.

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B2B Email Marketing: Communication Styles That Work for Autistic Decision-Makers

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Oct 20, 2025 8:00:02 AM

Your carefully crafted email sequence uses proven persuasion techniques: social proof, strategic ambiguity, relationship building, and emotional...

Autism Email Marketing B2B Marketing
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Marketing conferences to autistic professionals requires practical accessibility beyond ADA compliance. Sensory considerations, communication clarity, and social structure matter more than legal requirements.

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Conference Marketing to Autistic Professionals

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Oct 20, 2025 8:00:01 AM

Your conference website promises "inclusive environment" and "accessible venue." You've checked the ADA compliance boxes. And autistic professionals...

Neurodivergence Events Networking Compliance
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Autistic business leaders approach procurement through systematic analysis rather than relationship-driven sales tactics. Understanding this decision-making framework improves vendor success rates.

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Procurement Decisions by Autistic Business Leaders: Logic Over Persuasion

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Oct 20, 2025 8:00:00 AM

The enterprise software salesperson deployed every trick in the book: rapport building, strategic scarcity, emotional appeals about "partnership,"...

Autism B2B Marketing Procurement
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Autistic consumers buy luxury goods for sensory quality and production consistency—not social status. Here's why high-end brands should market craftsmanship through neurodivergent value propositions instead of exclusivity alone.

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Autism and Luxury Brands: Sensory Quality vs. Social Status

Picture of Writing Team Writing Team: Oct 13, 2025 8:00:01 AM

A client told us about her autistic teenage son who refused to wear anything except one specific designer sweater. Not because of the brand name—he...

Branding Neurodivergence Sensory
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Sports teams offer sensory-friendly games but ignore the executive function, information processing, and social navigation challenges that prevent autistic fans from attending. Here's what actual accessibility requires beyond turning down the volume.

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Sports Marketing and Autism: Fan Engagement Beyond Sensory Considerations

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Oct 13, 2025 8:00:00 AM

The NBA team announced their sensory-friendly game night with considerable fanfare. Lower volume on the PA system. Reduced lighting effects. Quiet...

Niche marketing Autism Community
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Religious autism outreach often relies on healing narratives and charity frameworks that alienate neurodivergent communities. Here's how to market spiritual accessibility that centers autistic dignity and full participation instead.

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Religious Marketing and Autism: Spiritual Community Outreach Strategies

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Oct 9, 2025 4:57:29 PM

The church bulletin announced a new sensory-friendly service with genuine excitement—dimmed lights, reduced music volume, fidget tools available, no...

Niche marketing Autism
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Stock photography reduces autism to puzzle pieces and isolation. Here's why those visual stereotypes harm representation—and what authentic autism imagery should show instead.

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Autism Representation in Stock Photography: Moving Beyond Stereotypes

Picture of Writing Team Writing Team: Oct 9, 2025 4:52:43 PM

We spent forty minutes scrolling through a major stock photography platform searching for autism-related images. The results followed a depressingly...

Art Autism Creative
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Discover effective strategies for marketing autism services and products to rural neurodivergent communities, addressing unique barriers and creating inclusive outreach approaches.

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Rural Marketing: Reaching Underserved Neurodivergent Communities

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Sep 22, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Rural autism communities face distinct challenges that urban-focused marketing strategies often miss. Geographic isolation, limited resources, and...

Neurodivergence Geotargeting
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Learn how to effectively market to autistic women entrepreneurs by understanding their unique business approaches, communication preferences, and decision-making processes.

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Autistic Women Entrepreneurs: Marketing to Female ND Business Owners

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Sep 22, 2025 8:00:00 AM

The entrepreneurial landscape includes a significant but often overlooked demographic: autistic women business owners. These entrepreneurs bring...

Marketing Neurodivergence Startup
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Explore how autistic immigrants navigate consumer choices through cultural adaptation and sensory needs. Discover what brands must understand about this overlooked market segment's unique decision-making patterns.

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Autistic Immigrant Consumer Behavior: Cultural Navigation and Brand Trust

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Sep 15, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Marketing research has a blind spot.

Autism Neurodivergence
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Explore how LGBTQ+ and autistic identities intersect in consumer behavior. Learn why traditional marketing fails this community and discover authentic approaches that build genuine brand loyalty.

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LGBTQ+ and Autistic: Intersectional Marketing Approaches

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Sep 15, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Maya stares at the Pride collection display in Target, feeling simultaneously seen and invisible.

Niche marketing Neurodivergence Diversity
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Discover how aging impacts autistic sensory processing and learn marketing strategies that authentically serve this overlooked demographic with evolving needs.

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Marketing to Autistic Seniors: Aging and Changing Sensory Needs

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Sep 8, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Temple Grandin, born in 1947, didn't receive her autism diagnosis until age 50. She's now 77, representing a vast population of autistic seniors who...

Autism Sensory Communication Seniors
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Discover how food marketers can authentically engage autistic consumers by understanding sensory processing differences and moving beyond limiting ARFID stereotypes.

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Food Marketing to Autistic Palates: Beyond ARFID Assumptions

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Sep 8, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Walk into any marketing meeting about autism and food, and someone will inevitably mention "safe foods"—usually crackers, plain pasta, or chicken...

Niche marketing Autism Food marketing
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1 in 36 consumers experience texture differently due to autism. The fashion industry ignores this $87 billion market by focusing only on visual appeal. Here's how tactile-first design changes everything.

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Fashion Industry and Autism: Texture, Tags, and Tactile Marketing

Picture of Neurodivergence Writing Team Neurodivergence Writing Team: Sep 1, 2025 8:00:00 AM

The fashion industry sells with images. But for millions of autistic consumers, touch determines everything.

Marketing Autism
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