MARKETING AND AUTISM

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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...

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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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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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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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Discover how autistic pattern recognition abilities can transform product design and development.

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Pattern Recognition as a Marketing Tool

Neurodivergence Writing Team: Jun 3, 2025 10:50:35 AM

While marketing often focuses on what autistic consumers need accommodated, we rarely ask what they offer. This oversight costs us profound insights....

Autism Product marketing

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Predictability Matters More Than Novelty to Many Autistic Consumers

Neurodivergence Writing Team: Jun 3, 2025 10:44:34 AM

Marketing wisdom preaches disruption, unexpected delight, and the element of surprise. We celebrate campaigns that catch audiences off guard, that...

Autism Neurodivergence Product marketing

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Discover communication strategies, rollout approaches, and design principles that honor neurodivergent needs while driving adoption.

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Addressing Change Aversion in Product Updates: Marketing New Features to Autistic Users

Neurodivergence Writing Team: May 26, 2025 2:38:27 PM

Picture this: Your development team has just shipped the most elegant interface redesign in your company's history. User testing showed improved task...

Autism Product marketing SaaS marketing

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Discover how the happiness-desire dichotomy transforms when marketing to neurodivergent consumers.

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What Are Marketers Really Selling to Neurodivergent Audiences?

Neurodivergence Writing Team: May 19, 2025 4:42:41 PM

The relationship between happiness and desire doesn't follow universal neural pathways. For neurodivergent consumers—those with autism, ADHD,...

Marketing Autism Neurodivergence

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Learn why authentic autistic testimonials matter for meaningful product development and marketing in an increasingly neurodiversity-conscious marketplace.

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Consumer Testimonials from Autistic Perspectives

Neurodivergence Writing Team: May 8, 2025 4:13:43 PM

When the latest noise-cancelling headphones hit the market, the reviews pour in. Professional tech reviewers praise the "intuitive controls" and...

Autism Neurodivergence Product marketing Customer retention

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Discover evidence-based strategies for crafting crisis communications that effectively reach autistic individuals. Learn how to adapt messaging, reduce anxiety, and ensure vital information is accessible to neurodivergent audiences during emergencies and uncertain times.

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Crisis Communication for Autistic Audiences

Neurodivergence Writing Team: May 8, 2025 4:06:06 PM

The tornado siren wails. Emergency alerts buzz on phones. News anchors speak with escalating urgency about "seeking shelter immediately." For most...

Marketing Autism Neurodivergence

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Discover how businesses are using geo-targeting technology to help neurodivergent individuals locate sensory-friendly environments.

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Geo-targeting for Sensory-Friendly Businesses: Help Neurodivergent Customers Find Safe Spaces

Neurodivergence Writing Team: May 8, 2025 3:58:47 PM

For most people, finding a coffee shop or restaurant is as simple as opening a maps app and selecting the nearest option. But for individuals on the...

Autism Geotargeting

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Tactile Marketing Materials: When Physical Mail Campaigns Better Serve Autistic Customers

Neurodivergence Writing Team: Apr 10, 2025 12:18:51 PM

We've witnessed the relentless march toward digital-everything in marketing—each pixel optimized, each interaction tracked, each algorithm refined to...

PR Marketing Autism Product marketing

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