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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.
There are too many people who fail to understand the difference between a scale and a spectrum.
Open the schools! 🙃

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

YES: “If parents get their information about parenting autistic kids from the autistic community, they will find people who think their kids are awesome and deserve to be happy, and want their parents to feel the same way. The parents will learn about autism from people who had autistic childhoods.”

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

"Because of the media's relentless negativity, fearmongering, & pseudoscience in covering autism, “ #profoundAutism " communities are often magnets for parents whose goal is to cure or treat autism, instead of understanding how to support an autistic child."

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/04/crea...

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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 1d

Why are some people STILL finding ways to divide (and try to conquer) #Autistic people by categorising them into #ProfoundAutism (tragic! bad!) and "Highly Sensitive People" (barely autistic at all! far more acceptable!)

We've a better way of explaining neurological variety now:

Neurodiversity.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

"Because of the media's relentless negativity, fearmongering, & pseudoscience in covering autism, “ #profoundAutism " communities are often magnets for parents whose goal is to cure or treat autism, instead of understanding how to support an autistic child."

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/04/crea...

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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · May 3

I've long thought that the overlap between autism and ADHD is such that we need a diagnostic tool for AuDHD.
It can seem to depend on the specialist which diagnosis you get when so many people need both! And if you add other neurodivergence or disabilities into the mix, it gets very complicated...

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 2d

These things come across like the various "awareness" campaigns that do nothing to address the problems, just point out they exist. "Have you heard of jobs? Did you know jobs were a thing? It's where you go to a place for a bit every day and do something you don't really want to, but you get money."

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness

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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 2d

The good news is, I've found my Hallowe'en costume 👍

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Joanna Grace PhD @jo3grace.bsky.social · 3d

inclusive start ups she was supporting. I wonder how I can carry that legacy forwards.

Thinking about those times reminded me of a question I used to get all the time in the early days, so here it is revisited: should we be age appropriate?
disabilityhorizons.com/2025/10/age-...

Age Appropriate or Person Appropriate? | Disability Horizons

Joanna Grace reflects on why support for disabled and neurodivergent people should focus on being person appropriate, not age appropriate — celebrating individuality, comfort, and joy at every stage o...

disabilityhorizons.com

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 3d

I think more people should be aware of how much cool stuff Link does in real life. He’s not just a poster.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 4d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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sjvn @sjvn.bsky.social · 4d

My favorite new initialism: AI;DR I'll be using this a lot from here on out.

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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 3d

*takes note*

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 20d

It's not difficult to recognise autism in girls. You just need to pay attention!

Decades of suffering could be prevented if allistics stopped ignoring female autism.

11 signs of autism in girls.

Relies heavily on other children to guide and speak for her. Passionate restricted and specific interests. Unusual sensitivity to sensory challenges. Conversation is restricted to limited topics of interest. Difficulty moderating feelings when frustrated. Unusual depression, anxiety and moodiness. Difficulty making and keeping friends. Often described as quiet or shy. Unusual passivity. Difficulty with social communication increases with age. Epileptic seizures.

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Alex Bertram-Powell @alexbpart.bsky.social · 4d

I think the people who saw no issues with assisted dying being brought in in the UK should take a look at this and think about Britain's lethal contempt for disability.

BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social · 5d

This is utterly heartbreaking. Too sad for words. A direct result of underfunding the NHS.

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Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social · 3d

Semi-regular update on how many jobs there actually are for disabled people in the UK, according to DWP Find a Job

All Jobs: 110,774
Fully Remote: 673
Of which are disability confident: 92
Of which are part-time: 5

BUT 3 of them are in care homes, so TWO WHOLE JOBS

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Semi-Verbal Autistic 🌈 @autisticventing.bsky.social · 4d

Autism is not a set of external behaviours.

It's a fundamental neurological difference that can be visible or hidden, but you're Autistic regardless of which one you are.

#actuallyautistic

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 4d

So, to no surprise, 'brand new ABA' is still barely considering whether its goals are relevant to autistic people.
Sigh.

Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 8d

In the recent (2020-24) ABA literature, 176 articles reported on functional analyses, of which a total of 20 (11.36%) included any assessment of their social validity?--& "no articles... assessed client preferences for functional analyses"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... autism-relevant

A concise review of social validity assessments during functional analyses of challenging behavior

This concise review summarizes the trends and outcomes of social validity assessments specifically related to functional analyses published between 2020 and 2024. Results indicate that very little da...

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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 4d

"Meet the new ABA
It's the same as the old ABA"

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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 4d

Do they consider autistic people to be people at all...?

Black and white portrait photo of Ole Ivar Lovaas, a late middle aged white man, wearing a striped shirt, jacket and tie.

There is a quote beside the photo. The text reads:

"You see, you start pretty much from scratch when you work with an autistic child.
You have a person in the physical sense—they have hair, a nose and a mouth—but they are not people in the psychological sense. One way to look at the job of helping autistic kids is to see it as a matter of constructing a person. You have the raw materials, but you have to build the person"

Ivar Lovaas, a founder of ABA

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 6d

“It is precisely because of this richness that the Neurodiversity Paradigm has become such a vital framework: it refuses reductionism in any direction, whether biological or environmental.”

We refuse reductionism in any direction.

We like the sound of that.

theautisticadvocate.com/the-danger-o...

The Danger of Misunderstanding Neuro-Affirming Practice - The Autistic Advocate

In this balanced and reflective article Kieran Rose discusses the dangers of misunderstanding neuro-affirming practice.

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 6d

Shared via Stimpunks following today's community solidarity session in our Discord server where we were discussing what being neuro-affirming really means to us.

Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 6d

“It is precisely because of this richness that the Neurodiversity Paradigm has become such a vital framework: it refuses reductionism in any direction, whether biological or environmental.”

We refuse reductionism in any direction.

We like the sound of that.

theautisticadvocate.com/the-danger-o...

The Danger of Misunderstanding Neuro-Affirming Practice - The Autistic Advocate

In this balanced and reflective article Kieran Rose discusses the dangers of misunderstanding neuro-affirming practice.

theautisticadvocate.com

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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 6d

Another One Bites The Dust.

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Isabelle Finn-Kelcey @isabellefk.bsky.social · 7d

💯. I’m hugely impressed by the new wave of creative & coproduced #EdRes, such as the @grrand-team.bsky.social & others’ RE-STAR project, investigating the aspects of school life which contribute to poor MH for autistic/ADHD CYP. Hopefully better #inclusion will follow

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

Neurodivergent adolescents experience twice the emotional burden at school

Negative school experiences generate twice the emotional burden in autistic and ADHD adolescents compared to their neurotypical classmates, and this is significantly correlated with depression and anx...

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Empower:ED Scotland @empoweredscotland.bsky.social · 7d

Only 26% of autistic pupils say they feel happy at school.
As of June 2025, 236,225 people are waiting for an autism assessment in England. This is a 53% increase in two years.
Only 3 in 10 autistic adults are in work, among the lowest for any disability.”

Ronnie Barbour @ronniebarbour.bsky.social · 7d

#Autism
#ADHD
#ASN
#SEN

Understanding autism and dispelling dangerous disinformation

Bylines Scotland asked the National Autistic Society Scotland for their response regarding the disinformation about the causes of autism

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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 7d

(Slightly surprised that the National Autistic Society Scotland didn't provide Scottish figures for Bylines Scotland!)

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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 7d

According to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, over 65,000 people are waiting for an assessment for autism and ADHD in Scotland, including more than 40,000 children.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.bsky.social · 8d

Excuse me for being a bit touchy today for obvious reasons but just no. I can't even be bothered to go into how egregiously poor the study they're discussing is because autism is NOT a disease and there is no such thing as a cure for natural, healthy variability in how human brains work

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 8d

Leucovorin may have a role in treatment of some people with #autism. But one of the researchers who studied it warns it's not a silver bullet. @rosebroderick.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/10/01/l...

Leucovorin has a place in autism treatment, researcher says, but he tamps down parents’ expectations

STAT spoke with Robert Hendren, a retired UCSF researcher who conducted a small study of leucovorin in children with autism in 2020.

www.statnews.com

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