Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Should the Autism Spectrum Be Split Apart?

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 1d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/h...

www.nytimes.com

1 1

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 2d

Why everything you know about autism is wrong | Jac den Houting | TEDxMacquarieUniversity
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1AU...

Why everything you know about autism is wrong | Jac den Houting | TEDxMacquarieUniversity

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

www.youtube.com

After 40 years as an autistic person in the workplace, I realised it was OK to ask for changes | Sandra Thom-Jones

Reposted by Autism

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 3d

After 40 years as an autistic person in the workplace, I realised it was OK to ask for changes
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Many autistic people face barriers due to stereotypes and ableist assumptions, including the belief that the neurotypical way of working is the only right way

After 40 years as an autistic person in the workplace, I realised it was OK to ask for changes | Sandra Thom-Jones

3 4

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 3d

3

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 3d

After 40 years as an autistic person in the workplace, I realised it was OK to ask for changes
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Many autistic people face barriers due to stereotypes and ableist assumptions, including the belief that the neurotypical way of working is the only right way

Feeling in control helps beat daily stress, researchers find

3 4

Reposted by Autism

Multiple Sclerosis @multiplesclerosis.bsky.social · 3d

Feeling in control helps beat daily stress, researchers find
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

People may be more likely to resolve a problem if they feel they have more control over it, according to a new study from a team including researchers at Penn State. They also found that the relations...

Fact or fiction? The ADHD info dilemma

1 1

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 3d

Fact or fiction? The ADHD info dilemma
Does this apply to autism as well? Tell us what you think?
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Syracuse University psychologists conducted a study exploring how misinformation about ADHD spread through TikTok affects college-age individuals’ knowledge and perception of the disorder.

People with self-diagnosed ADHD report more negative self-image and more internalized stigma than clinically diagnosed individuals, and are more likely to seek social validation, per analysis of 450,0...

Reposted by Autism

Yeshes.Online 📎🌻🖖♾️ @yeshes.online · 4d

invisible life
that secret inner third face
lives in such shadow

#haiku4u #lived_experience #resonance
#IfYouMeetTheOtherDoYouKillThem #HowWouldYouKnow #reference #neuroscience #systemic_mismatches_kill_humans

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 4d

People with self-diagnosed ADHD report more negative self-image and more internalized stigma than clinically diagnosed individuals, and are more likely to seek social validation, per analysis of 450,000 ADHD sub-reddit posts
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Improvements in mental health best predict life satisfaction

1 3

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 4d

Improvements in mental health best predict life satisfaction
A new model for evaluating changes to life satisfaction can be used to inform public health measures to improve people’s sense of well-being.
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

 On October 2 in the open-access journal PLOS Global Public Health, Steve Haake from Sheffield Hallam University and colleagues published a model for evaluating life satisfaction. ...

People with self-diagnosed ADHD report more negative self-image and more internalized stigma than clinically diagnosed individuals, and are more likely to seek social validation, per analysis of 450,0...

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 4d

People with self-diagnosed ADHD report more negative self-image and more internalized stigma than clinically diagnosed individuals, and are more likely to seek social validation, per analysis of 450,000 ADHD sub-reddit posts
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 5d

Diet can directly influence brain aging

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 5d

Diet can directly influence brain ageing
Two proteins emerged as especially relevant to accelerated brain ageing. Their levels decreased among participants following the green-Mediterranean diet, which includes green tea and the aquatic plant Mankai
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

A new study led by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Harvard University, and the University of Leipzig has uncovered innovative biological evidence that diet can directly influence ...

Study reveals genetic and developmental differences in people with earlier versus later autism diagnosis

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 6d

4 4

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 6d

Study reveals genetic and developmental differences in people with earlier versus later autism diagnosis
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Researchers find different genetic profiles related to two trajectories that autistic children tend to follow. One linked to early diagnosis, and communication

www.cam.ac.uk

Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 6d

2 3

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 7d

Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Those diagnosed as small children typically have distinct genetic profile from those diagnosed later, study finds

Patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities substantially over-represented among long-stay psychiatric inpatients

1 4

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 7d

October is ADHD Awareness Month. What does this mean for you?

1 1

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 8d

In your view what is the explanation for autism?

3 1

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 8d

1 2 3

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 8d

1 1 6

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 8d

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 9d

Patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities are substantially over-represented among long-stay psychiatric inpatients
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) account for more than one in five patients who have been in Ontario’s mental health beds for over a year.

Autistic people could teach Donald Trump a thing or two about focus, facts and empathy | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

2

Reposted by Autism

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 9d

Autistic people could teach Donald Trump a thing or two about focus, facts and empathy
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While not without its challenges, autism isn’t a curse to be cured of, as the likes of the President and RFK Jr want us to believe, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Autistic people could teach Donald Trump a thing or two about focus, facts and empathy | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

2 3

Autism @autismtalk.bsky.social · 9d

Autistic people could teach Donald Trump a thing or two about focus, facts and empathy
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

While not without its challenges, autism isn’t a curse to be cured of, as the likes of the President and RFK Jr want us to believe, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett