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Federico Parra

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I research neurodiversity at University of Zaragoza, Spain. Latest research: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-025-04995-8 Pronouns are he/him.

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Federico Parra @federicoparra.bsky.social · Apr 10

📝🧠 I'm thrilled to announce that my paper, "Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches" is now published and open access!!
Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #autism #enactivism

Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches - Synthese

Despite some remarkable accomplishments, enactivist and phenomenological approaches to autistic social difficulties remain highly problematic. Their conceptualization of social disablement as a distur...

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Nick Walker @dr-nicky.bsky.social · 12d

The Trump/RFK autism claim makes perfect sense once you remember that MAGA is always about turning the clock back. The claim isn't "Tylenol causes autism," it's "pregnant women taking Tylenol causes autism"... Because the real goal here is to revive the 1950s tradition of blaming autism on women.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 19d

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

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Francesca Brencio @ipazia76.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Exploring lived experience in mental health", first workshop of the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health.
Happening now, at the Studio (Central Birmingham)
@matthewbroome.bsky.social and @jelliedsours.bsky.social delivering the opening remarks

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Federico Parra @federicoparra.bsky.social · Sep 3

Oh, it shows! Glad to see you were able to fulfil your 'greedy' desire to have both the presentation and the speaker's camera on screen

Federico Parra @federicoparra.bsky.social · Sep 3

Loving the talks this morning at @uobphenomenal.bsky.social's event. We are learning about really interesting topics with some lovely speakers and great moderation by @jelliedsours.bsky.social

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Valencia Philosophy Lab @vlc-lab.bsky.social · Sep 2

📖🎉Excited to share that the book chapter “It Doesn't Feel Like Myself: A Mindshaping View on Self-Illness Ambiguity” (Virginia Ballesteros, Fernández-Castro & Núñez de Prado-Gordillo) has been accepted for publication with Routledge!

🔗Pre-print: roderic.uv.es/rest/api/cor...

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Olivia When @oliviawhen.com · Aug 16

Doggust Day 15: Havanese. Unqualified and too small for this job.
#doggust #doggust2025

A small tan and white dog sitting in a big office chair, framed by big office chairs in the foreground, on the other side of a conference table. They're in a corporate meeting room. On the desk are papers, a laptop, some blue post its and a pen. The dog has a blank look, as though they have no idea how they got here or what to do. The overall colors are teal and and ochre.

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Dave Sayers @davesayers.bsky.social · Nov 15

Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.

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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · Jul 23

Making Sense of the 4E Cognition Turn in Mental Health Research

Miguel Núñez de Prado-Gordillo, Pablo López-Silva

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Project MUSE - Making Sense of the 4E Cognition Turn in Mental Health Research

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Jodie Russell @jelliedsours.bsky.social · Jul 23

New on the #projectEPIC blog today is a post from Virginia Ballesteros, summarising her recent paper "Objectivity, Standardization, and Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatry". It's an excellent read - you should check it out!

epistemicinjusticeinhealthcareproject.blogspot.com/2025/07/obje...

Objectivity, Standardization, and Epistemic Injustice in Psychiatry

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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · Jul 17

PUBLIC LECTURE:

My end of @leverhulme.ac.uk fellowship lecture is on the 24th of September! It will be in person at @durhampsych.bsky.social and also streamed online. Tickets are available on Eventbrite.

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Centre for Neurodiversity and Development Public Lecture

Why autism isn't what you think it is (and why that matters) - end of fellowship Public Lecture by Dr Monique Botha

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Sonny Hallett @scrappapertiger.bsky.social · Jul 14

#Neurodiversity is a vital concept, and understanding the difference between neurodiverse and neurodivergent is much more important than just splitting hairs over linguistics. I made a comic explainer.

Higher quality images & questions for reflection here:
medium.com/@sonnyhallet...

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · Jul 14

Want to do better by autistic people? OK:

1) Check how someone prefers to communicate
2) Allow more time to process responses
3) Avoid assumptions based on body language
4) Be open to written or direct communication when that works best

@drstevenkapp.bsky.social et al:

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* - Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · Jul 8

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

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Federico Parra @federicoparra.bsky.social · Jul 2

Oh right! Yes, it sounded weird to me too but worth asking for just in case. Thank you for your kind reply!

Federico Parra @federicoparra.bsky.social · Jul 1

The MSc looks great!! May I ask in what sense is it free? I'm not a native english speaker, but, as a ND scholar, I'm very interested in the course

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Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · Jul 1

"Research on autism has suggested that autistic people use neologisms more than nonautistic people, but no previous work has carefully examined these words to understand what they mean and why autistic people might be creating them in the first place" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... free

An Autistic “Linguatype”? Neologisms, New Words, and New Insights

In this commentary, we present new ideas about autistic neologisms. This essay has two primary goals. First, we argue that an autistic predilection to form neologisms generates intriguing new hypothe...

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FiloLab @filolab.bsky.social · May 26

🧠 3rd Workshop on Mental Health and Normativity
📍 University of Granada | 🗓️ May 29–30, 2025

How do norms shape our understanding of mental health?
Join us to explore philosophical insights on psychiatric harm, self-perception, autism, and identity.

🔗 sites.google.com/view/philoso...

3rd Workshop Mental Health and Normativity

3rd Workshop Mental health and normativity: Philosophical Reflections

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Catherine Crompton @cjcrompton.bsky.social · May 14

New paper alert!

Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com

nature.com/articles/s41...

THREAD! 🧵⬇️

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · May 10

Deeply concerning:
The British Journal of Occupational Therapy have published this:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... in which 16 autistic children are 'normalised' using a robot to teach them how not to ever appear or sound autistic.
What on earth is going on, in Occupational Therapy?/

Qualitative outcomes and impact of a robotic intervention on children with autism spectrum disorder: A multiple embedded case study - Eva Yin-Han Chung, Kenneth Kuen-Fung Sin, Daniel Hung-Kay Chow, 20...

Most studies of social robot interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder have been laboratory experiments focusing on component skills. There is in...

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Thriving Autistic @thrivingautistic.bsky.social · May 2

Our favourite monthly round-up is out from @annmemmott.bsky.social and #neurodiverseconnection

ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-...

Autism, ADHD, Dyspraxia and Learning Disability Research—What’s New in April — Neurodiverse Connection

In this month’s research roundup, Ann Memmott explores a wider array of research, showcasing and reflecting upon some of the latest papers on Autism, ADHD, Dyspraxia and Learning Disability.

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Nicole Filippone, Autistic Advocate & Author @sensorystories.bsky.social · Apr 15

Self-diagnosis is valid.

Also, telling someone who landed on self-diagnosis after months, if not years of researching and learning about autism, that they're not autistic because they don't have a piece of paper saying so, is classist and ableist. Please don't do this.

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Federico Parra @federicoparra.bsky.social · Apr 14

Plus, it's easy! Just ask and listen to autistics. If you offer a neurodiversity-affirmative perspective on autism, the rest of us researchers want to know about you and your work, we want to support you, specifically if you are an autistic researcher yourself!

Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · Apr 11

Meantime, my huge thanks to the increasing number of researchers who are being allies. Learning about autistic communication. Understanding why we are anxious about the stuff above. Wanting to truly learn from us & respect us, collaborating fully throughout the projects.
That's how progress happens.

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Graham Mead @twillierod.bsky.social · Apr 4

Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches

Federico Parra Rubio

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Intersubjective, systemic, and sensory roots of autistic social difficulties: a critical evaluation of enactivist and phenomenological approaches - Synthese

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