MARKETING AND AUTISM

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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

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

Marketing research has a blind spot.

Autism Neurodivergence

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LGBTQ+ and Autistic: Intersectional Marketing Approaches

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

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

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

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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The autistic travel market represents $13 billion in spending power, but the industry still focuses on basic sensory accommodations. Here's what autistic travelers actually need and want.

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Autistic Travel Consumer Behavior: Beyond Sensory-Friendly Accommodations

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

The travel industry thinks it understands autistic consumers. Quiet rooms. Soft lighting. Noise-canceling headphones.

Autism Digital marketing

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Explore why AI chatbots struggle with autistic communication patterns and discover how businesses can design more inclusive conversational AI that serves neurodivergent users effectively.

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AI Chatbots vs. Autistic Communication: Why Current Models Fail

Neurodivergence Writing Team: Aug 25, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Artificial intelligence chatbots have become the front line of customer service for millions of businesses worldwide. Yet these systems consistently...

Autism Chatbot

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Learn how voice search optimization can better serve autistic users through direct language patterns, sensory considerations, and inclusive design strategies for improved accessibility.

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Voice Search Optimization for Autistic Communication Patterns

Neurodivergence Writing Team: Aug 25, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Voice search technology has revolutionized how people interact with digital devices, but current optimization strategies often overlook the unique...

Neurodivergence Technology Voice search

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Discover how proprioception—the often-ignored sixth sense—shapes customer behavior. Learn practical strategies for designing marketing experiences that honor different body awareness styles and unlock underserved market segments.

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Proprioceptive Marketing: Brands That Understand Body Awareness Differences

Neurodivergence Writing Team: Aug 18, 2025 8:00:00 AM

We design for five senses, but there's a sixth one determining whether your customer feels comfortable enough to buy. Proprioception—our awareness of...

Autism Sensory

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Explore how interoception—awareness of internal body signals—shapes autistic shopping behavior. Discover practical strategies for creating retail experiences that support different styles of internal awareness and decision-making.

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Interoception and Consumer Decisions: How Internal Body Signals Affect Autistic Shopping

Neurodivergence Writing Team: Aug 18, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Your customer's heartbeat might be more influential than your marketing copy. Interoception—awareness of internal body signals like hunger, thirst,...

Autism Neurodivergence Research Retail

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Uncover how diagnostic bias has created invisible ADHD female consumers. Learn why traditional market research misses women with ADHD and how to reach this underserved demographic.

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The ADHD Female Consumer: Addressing Diagnostic Bias in Market Research

Neurodivergence Writing Team: Aug 11, 2025 8:00:00 AM

She's been called "scatter-brained," "too sensitive," and "just anxious." She impulse-buys organizational systems that never work, cycles through...

Autism Research ADHD

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Discover how neurodivergent creators are reshaping the digital economy. Learn about the unique needs of ND entrepreneurs and the tools driving their success in content creation.

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The Neurodivergent Creator Economy

Neurodivergence Writing Team: Aug 11, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Neurodivergent creators are quietly revolutionizing the digital economy, turning their unique perspectives into thriving businesses while working...

Autism Neurodivergence

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Discover how to market career services to neurodivergent professionals. Learn about unique ND workplace challenges and the growing demand for specialized professional development support.

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Neurodivergent Professional Development: Marketing Career Services to ND Adults

Neurodivergence Writing Team: Aug 5, 2025 12:17:36 PM

The traditional career ladder doesn't accommodate brains that work differently. Neurodivergent professionals face unique workplace challenges—from...

Neurodivergence Jobs

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Explore the unique consumer patterns of neurodivergent families. Learn how ND parents navigate product choices while raising ND children, and what marketers need to understand about this growing demographic.

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Neurodivergent Parent Marketing: Advertising to ND Adults Raising ND Children

Writing Team: Aug 5, 2025 12:13:52 PM

The traditional parenting playbook doesn't work when your family's brains are wired differently. Neurodivergent parents raising neurodivergent...

Autism Communication

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Explore marketing strategies for adults newly diagnosed with ADHD, examining sensitive approaches to diagnostic services and therapeutic solutions for late-identified neurodivergent adults.

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ADHD Late Diagnosis Marketing: Reaching Newly Identified Adults

Neurodivergence Writing Team: Jul 21, 2025 8:00:00 AM

The 45-year-old executive finally understands why meetings feel impossible. The 30-year-old parent recognizes their child's ADHD symptoms in...

Marketing ADHD

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Discover how neurodivergent gamers engage differently with gaming marketing, exploring alternative patterns and successful campaigns that resonate with autistic and ADHD gaming communities.

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Marketing to Gamers (Esp. ND Ones)

Writing Team: Jul 21, 2025 8:00:00 AM

Gaming culture assumes everyone plays the same way—quick decisions, rapid social interaction, constant stimulation. But neurodivergent gamers often...

Digital marketing Gaming

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Discover how neurodivergent humor styles differ from neurotypical comedy and which brands successfully incorporate autistic and ADHD humor into their marketing strategies.

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Neurodivergent Humor in Marketing

Writing Team: Jul 17, 2025 10:24:07 AM

Neurotypical humor often relies on timing, social cues, and shared assumptions. Neurodivergent humor operates differently—it's more literal,...

Neurodivergence Communication

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Discover how ADHD processing differences impact marketing effectiveness, exploring why literal language succeeds where metaphorical campaigns fail and strategies for neurodivergent-inclusive communication.

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Literal Language in ADHD Marketing: When Metaphors Miss the Mark

Writing Team: Jul 17, 2025 10:20:00 AM

The creative brief says "think outside the box." The tagline promises to "revolutionize your morning routine." The campaign imagery features abstract...

Language ADHD

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