Aimee Grant investigates the needs of autistic people

Before becoming a researcher, Aimee Grant worked as a caregiver for six years in Cornwall, England, supporting autistic adults in group homes. But only more than a decade later, after befriending an autistic colleague at a sociology conference, did she realize she was autistic herself.

The stereotypical view of autism as a brain impairment more commonly found in men made it difficult for Grant to make sense of her internal world.