The Autivist (Fighting for a Post Behaviorist World)
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Todd D. Woodward (He/Him/Theirs) Father. Husband. NeuroEducation & NeuroRelational Science wonk. AuDHD, Dyslexic. Disability Justice, Emancipatory Autism Studies. Perpetually awkward! #ActuallyAutistic
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Hi, I'm Todd - autistic, ADHD, dyslexic advocate for neurodiversity and disability justice. Welcome to The Autivist! 🌈♾️ Decades in tech, now fully committed to community empowerment and inclusion. #NeurodiversityMatters #Autivist 🧠 [1/4]
Claude? What will your legacy be?
“We’ll likely be remembered as the technology that made certain kinds of bullshit ubiquitous - the flooding of information spaces with plausible-sounding text that requires more cognitive labor to verify than to generate.”
“We’ll likely be remembered as the technology that made certain kinds of bullshit ubiquitous - the flooding of information spaces with plausible-sounding text that requires more cognitive labor to verify than to generate.”
December 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Claude? What will your legacy be?
“We’ll likely be remembered as the technology that made certain kinds of bullshit ubiquitous - the flooding of information spaces with plausible-sounding text that requires more cognitive labor to verify than to generate.”
“We’ll likely be remembered as the technology that made certain kinds of bullshit ubiquitous - the flooding of information spaces with plausible-sounding text that requires more cognitive labor to verify than to generate.”
“How we lead change, is the change.”
December 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“How we lead change, is the change.”
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It can be hard to tell the difference between clinical depression & Autistic burnout
some clues it's not just burnout:
changes in appetite (not just resorting to safe foods)
less emotion in your voice & movement to your face
fun stuff isn't fun (not just too tired!)
uncontrolled crying
some clues it's not just burnout:
changes in appetite (not just resorting to safe foods)
less emotion in your voice & movement to your face
fun stuff isn't fun (not just too tired!)
uncontrolled crying
December 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It can be hard to tell the difference between clinical depression & Autistic burnout
some clues it's not just burnout:
changes in appetite (not just resorting to safe foods)
less emotion in your voice & movement to your face
fun stuff isn't fun (not just too tired!)
uncontrolled crying
some clues it's not just burnout:
changes in appetite (not just resorting to safe foods)
less emotion in your voice & movement to your face
fun stuff isn't fun (not just too tired!)
uncontrolled crying
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Are you student teaching this upcoming semester? CEC's Teacher Candidate Support Network is here to equip you with tools, resources, mentorship, and more to ensure that you are ready to become a successful teacher.
Learn more and join today: exceptionalchildren.org/membership/s...
Learn more and join today: exceptionalchildren.org/membership/s...
December 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Are you student teaching this upcoming semester? CEC's Teacher Candidate Support Network is here to equip you with tools, resources, mentorship, and more to ensure that you are ready to become a successful teacher.
Learn more and join today: exceptionalchildren.org/membership/s...
Learn more and join today: exceptionalchildren.org/membership/s...
#NeurodivergentCompendium
New term…
Neurostemologies
Knowledge systems emerging from neurodivergent cognitive experiences that challenge neurotypical assumptions about intelligence, learning, communication, and what counts as valid thinking.
New term…
Neurostemologies
Knowledge systems emerging from neurodivergent cognitive experiences that challenge neurotypical assumptions about intelligence, learning, communication, and what counts as valid thinking.
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
#NeurodivergentCompendium
New term…
Neurostemologies
Knowledge systems emerging from neurodivergent cognitive experiences that challenge neurotypical assumptions about intelligence, learning, communication, and what counts as valid thinking.
New term…
Neurostemologies
Knowledge systems emerging from neurodivergent cognitive experiences that challenge neurotypical assumptions about intelligence, learning, communication, and what counts as valid thinking.
Be your best self. And if you can’t, be Batman.
Pagnini, F., Grosso, F., Cavalera, C. et al. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect. npj Mental Health Res 4, 57 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Pagnini, F., Grosso, F., Cavalera, C. et al. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect. npj Mental Health Res 4, 57 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s441...
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Be your best self. And if you can’t, be Batman.
Pagnini, F., Grosso, F., Cavalera, C. et al. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect. npj Mental Health Res 4, 57 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Pagnini, F., Grosso, F., Cavalera, C. et al. Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect. npj Mental Health Res 4, 57 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Reminds me of @audhd-psychnp.com’s Neurological Asterism Theory.
This is a unifying theme in human health: Many chronic conditions arise from common roots but express in different ways.
Mental health diagnoses are often linked: people with schizophrenia are much more likely to have bipolar disorder.
There's a *spectrum* of psychopathology.
Mental health diagnoses are often linked: people with schizophrenia are much more likely to have bipolar disorder.
There's a *spectrum* of psychopathology.
December 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Reminds me of @audhd-psychnp.com’s Neurological Asterism Theory.
Equity work is sometimes hard and uncomfortable. If it’s always easy, is the work really being done to move towards liberation?
December 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Equity work is sometimes hard and uncomfortable. If it’s always easy, is the work really being done to move towards liberation?
First it’s removing the 7% disability hire requirement for federal contractors.
Disassembled Department of Education and weaken IDEA.
Then it’s a font.
Now it’s ASL interpreters from the White House.
The ADA is being bled with a thousand cuts.
Disassembled Department of Education and weaken IDEA.
Then it’s a font.
Now it’s ASL interpreters from the White House.
The ADA is being bled with a thousand cuts.
December 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
First it’s removing the 7% disability hire requirement for federal contractors.
Disassembled Department of Education and weaken IDEA.
Then it’s a font.
Now it’s ASL interpreters from the White House.
The ADA is being bled with a thousand cuts.
Disassembled Department of Education and weaken IDEA.
Then it’s a font.
Now it’s ASL interpreters from the White House.
The ADA is being bled with a thousand cuts.
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PSA
It's ok to feed your autistic kid nuggets today.
It's ok to let your kid be alone in their room while the rest of the family is having dinner.
It's ok to let them be autistic without judgment.
They get enough of that from the rest of the world. ❤️
It's ok to feed your autistic kid nuggets today.
It's ok to let your kid be alone in their room while the rest of the family is having dinner.
It's ok to let them be autistic without judgment.
They get enough of that from the rest of the world. ❤️
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
PSA
It's ok to feed your autistic kid nuggets today.
It's ok to let your kid be alone in their room while the rest of the family is having dinner.
It's ok to let them be autistic without judgment.
They get enough of that from the rest of the world. ❤️
It's ok to feed your autistic kid nuggets today.
It's ok to let your kid be alone in their room while the rest of the family is having dinner.
It's ok to let them be autistic without judgment.
They get enough of that from the rest of the world. ❤️
Equity without actively working towards liberation by dismantling systemic oppression, is cosmequity.
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Equity without actively working towards liberation by dismantling systemic oppression, is cosmequity.
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ED is transferring key functions to other agencies, and sources indicate that OSERS may soon be moved to HHS. CEC strongly opposes this change, which would weaken IDEA by placing special education under a health-based model.
Read the full update: exceptionalchildren.org/blog/idea-ri...
Read the full update: exceptionalchildren.org/blog/idea-ri...
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
ED is transferring key functions to other agencies, and sources indicate that OSERS may soon be moved to HHS. CEC strongly opposes this change, which would weaken IDEA by placing special education under a health-based model.
Read the full update: exceptionalchildren.org/blog/idea-ri...
Read the full update: exceptionalchildren.org/blog/idea-ri...
I’m not unassuming. I’m Autistic. But thanks for noticing.
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I’m not unassuming. I’m Autistic. But thanks for noticing.
Real understanding often looks like productive conflict, not comfortable consensus. When everyone nods along, it usually means no one is really listening.
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Real understanding often looks like productive conflict, not comfortable consensus. When everyone nods along, it usually means no one is really listening.
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Study of interviews with 64 middle-aged women senior leaders finds they purposely broke menopause taboos by talking about it at work, not just because it helped them through difficult days, but also because they knew their leadership roles protected them.
hbr.org/2025/11/new-...
hbr.org/2025/11/new-...
New Research on How Women in Leadership Navigated Menopause
Women who aspire to senior leadership roles face a number of systemic, gendered barriers. But a new study found that dealing with the symptoms of menopause doesn’t have to be one of them. Researchers ...
hbr.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Study of interviews with 64 middle-aged women senior leaders finds they purposely broke menopause taboos by talking about it at work, not just because it helped them through difficult days, but also because they knew their leadership roles protected them.
hbr.org/2025/11/new-...
hbr.org/2025/11/new-...
The active pursuit of equity requires disruption.
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The active pursuit of equity requires disruption.
I read this somewhere recently, but I forget where: “Oppression disables.” And “ableism is a form of control.” Powerful!
November 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I read this somewhere recently, but I forget where: “Oppression disables.” And “ableism is a form of control.” Powerful!
“Reading is first and foremost a meaning-making process. If you are not reading for meaning, then you are not reading at all.”
—P. David Pearson
—P. David Pearson
November 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
“Reading is first and foremost a meaning-making process. If you are not reading for meaning, then you are not reading at all.”
—P. David Pearson
—P. David Pearson
Our nearly 12yo AuDHD son already innately understands the double empathy problem and why he gets along better with fellow Autistics.
October 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Our nearly 12yo AuDHD son already innately understands the double empathy problem and why he gets along better with fellow Autistics.
How would you define real educational inclusion? Go!
October 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
How would you define real educational inclusion? Go!
The hard part of pushing for change while being a public servant with the heart of an activist, is balancing the knowledge that change takes democratic consensus building and time, with the desire to storm the castle battlements and scale the walls.
October 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The hard part of pushing for change while being a public servant with the heart of an activist, is balancing the knowledge that change takes democratic consensus building and time, with the desire to storm the castle battlements and scale the walls.
Them: “There’s this disability conference and they’re looking for presentation proposals, and I naturally thought about you.”
Me: “Thanks, but I’m not the Seeks-Out-Public-Speaking-Opportunities Autistic.”
Me: “Thanks, but I’m not the Seeks-Out-Public-Speaking-Opportunities Autistic.”
October 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Them: “There’s this disability conference and they’re looking for presentation proposals, and I naturally thought about you.”
Me: “Thanks, but I’m not the Seeks-Out-Public-Speaking-Opportunities Autistic.”
Me: “Thanks, but I’m not the Seeks-Out-Public-Speaking-Opportunities Autistic.”
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” —Audre Lord
October 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence. It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” —Audre Lord
And now for a local story about epistemic ableism and a form of medical ableism called medical paternalism.
‘What If It Had Been Life-Threatening?’
On the morning of Sept. 10, Sarah Reighley, a woman who was born Deaf, arrived at BestMed Urgent Care on West 11th Avenue seeking medical assistance for a bleeding head wound after hitting her head…
eugeneweekly.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
And now for a local story about epistemic ableism and a form of medical ableism called medical paternalism.
Question for today: Does Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs account for Autistic lived experience, our unique development and brains and our needs?
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Question for today: Does Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs account for Autistic lived experience, our unique development and brains and our needs?