The Los Angeles Times (5/5, Reyes) reports on recent interviews with a number of adults with autism who “say that although the pandemic can be especially stressful for people on the spectrum, many are practiced in dealing with the challenges – social isolation, disrupted routines, economic strain – that are now affecting the general populations.” They also “hope that those experiences might help people who aren’t autistic to better understand them.” Brown University adjunct professor Barry Prizant says that unexpected events and a lack of perceived control are “the major stressors for people on the spectrum,” and the pandemic’s effect can exacerbate these stressors even “as they are now major stress factors for neurotypical people – the.