Autistic adults face many barriers to healthcare access and experience many healthcare disparities. This study aimed to uncover autistic adults' perspectives on their healthcare experiences through Qualitative interviews.

The results show that autistic adults viewed various things as impacting how they received care, including socioeconomic status, educational attainment, work status, physical and mental health problems, and social support. These factors impacted whether or not they were able to receive healthcare services. In addition, they voiced that performing healthcare-related tasks such as accessing preventive care, completing intake forms, taking medications, and completing medical paperwork is more difficult for them. Many of the participants in this study voiced a preference for making an appointment online rather than over the phone. Healthcare providers' training on autism was a recurrent theme, and many autistic adults felt that healthcare providers did not have enough training on working with autistic people.

The authors suggest a number of interventions to improve healthcare access for autistic people, including lengthening appointment times, providing additional training on autism to providers, and online options for appointment scheduling. In addition, sensory rooms and funds for accessible transportation were interventions that were identified as being helpful to improve the accessibility of healthcare services for adults on the spectrum.