Autism in adulthood is often overlooked, leading to worsened physical and mental health outcomes. Elizabeth argues for a reformation of current support systems to increase safeguarding and support for neurodiverse communities. Elizabeth Weir is a postdoctoral researcher at the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge and a Rokos PDRA Fellow at Queens’ College. Elizabeth strives to fill gaps in current research by highlighting the needs of understudied and underserved groups within the autism community, including middleaged and older people, those with diverse gender identities and sexual orientations, and those assigned female at birth. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx