Impact is not a scorecard. It is change that makes life better for people in real conditions: a child whose school stops punishing them for being monotropic, a parent who stops blaming themselves, a teacher who reads one page and changes how they speak to a pupil on Monday morning.
Autistic Realms and More Realms are run by one person, from lived experience and twenty years of teaching, alongside the communities I work with. I don’t measure what I do by how many pages I publish or how many clicks they get. Those are activity markers. I measure it by usefulness, dignity enabled, harm reduced and access expanded, which are harder to count. This page shares the numbers I do have, what they can and can’t tell you, and where I fall short.
Metrics
| Metric | Count |
|---|---|
| Posts and pages published, both sites (reach, not outcome) | 329: 155 posts and 87 pages on Autistic Realms, 60 posts and 27 pages on More Realms |
| Downloadable resources in the shop | 399, pay what you can from £1, 16 free |
| Resource downloads since 2024 | 7,110 (5,366 in 2025) |
| Orders and people served by the shop | 1,782 orders by 1,601 people |
| Website views, all time (reach, not outcome) | 184,000: 178,313 on Autistic Realms, 5,687 on More Realms |
| Website views in 2026 so far | 92,842 across both sites (54,355 visitors to Autistic Realms) |
| Website views per month | 7,141 in the last 30 days |
| Busiest day | 1,562 views on 8 July 2025 |
| Readers by country, 2026 | UK 32,612 · US 26,411 · Australia 7,157 · Canada 4,140 · Ireland 3,079 · New Zealand 1,375 |
| Books | 3 published, 1 more in press |
| Book chapters and contributions | 8 published, 7 forthcoming |
| E-books, workbooks and training packs | 23 |
| Talks, panels, webinars and podcasts since 2023 | About 50 |
| Scholarly works citing autisticrealms.com (Google Scholar) | 11 |
| Social media followers | Facebook 22K (page 10K, profile 12K) · Bluesky 9,685 · Instagram 7,578 · LinkedIn (add) |
| Followers across all platforms | 60,000+ |
| Newsletter subscribers | (add) |
What the numbers can and can’t say
Views tell me something reached a screen. They don’t tell me whether it changed anything. A download tells me a resource was wanted. It doesn’t tell me whether it went on a classroom wall or into a drawer.
Most of what I know about impact arrives in ways no table captures: a message from a parent after a meeting went differently, a teacher who tells me at a conference that they use the burnout guide with every new class, a young person who found the words for their own experience in a post about monotropism. I don’t collect these systematically, and I don’t ask for permission to publish them, because a person who has just told me something tender should not have to think about whether it will end up on a web page. So this page shows you the countable part, and the countable part is the smaller part.
Where readers come from
In 2026, search engines sent Autistic Realms 36,340 visits, which means people are arriving with a question already in mind: a parent typing “autistic burnout child” at midnight, a teacher looking up monotropism. Facebook sent 7,224, LinkedIn 1,324 and Bluesky 1,056. The National Autistic Society’s website sent 666, and Stimpunks and Monotropism.org sent several hundred each. More Realms, the slower, more theoretical sibling site, reaches readers mainly through Facebook and Bluesky, which fits what it is.
The most-read pieces this year are practical and relational: Penguin Pebbling: An Autistic Love Language (7,869 views), Monotropism, Limerence and Autistic ADHD Experiences (4,267), Monotropism vs Polytropism (3,485), Intensive Interaction as Neuro-Affirming Relational Practice (3,249) and the parent and teacher guides to Autistic burnout.
Resources in circulation
The shop holds 399 posters, cards, infographics, e-books and training packs. Sixteen are free and the rest are pay what you can from £1, so the money column says very little and the download column says a lot: 7,110 downloads since the shop opened, by 1,601 people. The most downloaded resource is the free Autism and Neurodiversity Starter Pack, written with David Gray-Hammond, which has gone out 640 times. Everything is licensed CC BY-NC-ND, so it can be printed, shared and put on walls without asking, and that is the point.
Writing, research and recognition
Three books so far: Embracing Monotropism and Supporting Young People to Help Prevent Autistic Burnout (2023), the Neuro-Affirming Glossary (2025) and, with David Gray-Hammond, Re-Storying Autism (2026). Chapters and contributions include Embracing Monotropism and Flow, written with Fergus Murray for It Takes All Kinds of Minds (Routledge, 2026), and pieces in The Scale of the Spectrum, Understanding Autistic Burnout and Ways of Being, Knowing and Doing. Seven more chapters and papers are in press, including two for Neuroqueer Theory and Practice (Autonomous Press) and one for The Monotropism Reader (Pavilion). The full list, in APA style, is on the publications page.
Google Scholar lists eleven scholarly works that cite autisticrealms.com, and my work is cited or featured in books by Viv Dawes, Katy Elphinstone, Kerry Murphy and others. One piece has been translated into French. None of this is why I write, but it tells me the ideas are travelling beyond the people who already agree with me.
Working alongside others
Almost nothing here was made alone. I am Co-Creative Director of Stimpunks Foundation with Ryan Boren, Co-Director and Community Facilitator of NeuroHub Community with David Gray-Hammond, Content Researcher at Monotropism.org with Fergus Murray, Communications and Community Lead at Thriving Autistic, and an Education, Training and Resource Specialist with GROVE Education. Out of those relationships came the Map of Monotropic Experiences, Neuroqueer Learning Spaces, Cavendish Space, Penguin Pebbling, Star Stuff and queering.earth. Since 2023 I have given around fifty talks, panels, webinars and podcast episodes, almost all co-created with other Autistic and neurodivergent people; they are listed on the talks page.
Where I fall short
An impact page that reports only what worked isn’t modest. It’s broken. So this section stays and gets updated when I find new things wrong, which I do.
I don’t know whether any of this changes practice at scale
Guides get downloaded, cited and shared. I cannot tell you whether a single school changed a policy because of one. I have no outcome tracking I would trust, because most of what exists in that genre measures compliance and calls it progress, and I will not do that to the people I work with. What I can honestly say is narrower than a funder usually wants: ideas I published are in circulation, and I do not know what they changed.
The sites were less accessible than they should have been
An audit in October 2026 found 164 images across the two sites with no alt text, dozens of empty or mis-levelled headings, and a shop where most product pages said nothing about the product beyond a licence paragraph. For a site about access, that is a real failure, not a technical footnote. All of it has now been fixed, and the audit is repeated so it stays fixed. The remaining gaps are listed openly in the audit notes.
I publish things that are wrong, and find out later
Some quote cards in the shop carry attributions I now need to check. Some graphics have typos that sat there for a year. Some early posts use language I would not use today. I correct these when I find them, and I would rather say so here than quietly swap them out.
Reach depends on platforms I don’t control
Facebook alone sent more than seven thousand readers this year. A change to one algorithm can halve that overnight, and has. Search engines send most of the rest, and they reward whatever is already popular. The newsletter and this website are the only channels I own, which is why I keep asking people to subscribe rather than follow.
What I deliberately don’t measure
I don’t count hours worked, speed of output or constant availability. I am an Autistic ADHD person who has been through burnout more than once, and a site built on metric fixation would reproduce exactly the conditions I write against. Rest is part of the work. The gaps in posting are not a failure of commitment; they are the cost of being a person.
How you can help it travel
Share a resource with someone who needs it. Print it and put it on a wall. Cite it in your training, your policy, your essay. Pay what you can in the shop if you are able, and take it free if you are not. Join the newsletter so we are not relying on an algorithm to find each other. And tell me when something here helped, or when it was wrong, because both of those are how this page gets better.