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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 11d

Not the point of this piece exactly but a great example of how chatbot validation could increase polarization

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/w...

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Jess Aiston @jessaiston.bsky.social · 14d

**CALL FOR PAPERS**

Upcoming workshop at QMUL in January, looking at autism, focused interests, and communication across diverse contexts. How can we centre autistic interests as a strength rather than a symptom?

Contributions outside academia welcome.

Please share widely!

Workshop: Focused Interests, Identity, & Autistic Communication Across Contexts. 8-9th January, Queen Mary University of London.

Speakers:
- Dr Liam Cross & Dr Gray Atherton, leading a co-design session to create a board game highlighting strengths of neurodiversity
- Pete Wharmby, neurodiversity advocate
- Professor Rebecca Wood, Glasgow

This workshop will explore how autistic people engage with focused interests in diverse communication settings. Bringing together discourse, narrative, interactional approaches, sessions will examine how intense interests shape storytelling, knowledge exchange, and social connections. We consider how focused interests are differently valued in society and ask what it would mean to centre interests as a strength rather than symtom.

We invite proposals for individual papers and contributions to a roundtable discussion. Contributions from autistic individuals and allies, practitioners, clinicians, and education professionals are especially welcomed.

Submit your proposal to j.aiston@qmul.ac.uk by Friday 14th November

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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 15d

Amazing postdoc job with absolutely lovely Jelle Van Dijk in Twente, Netherlands

Closing date October 10th

Please shared widely on academic jobs lists.

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Postdoc Neuro-Inclusive Participatory Interaction Design - Looking for a job that matters? | Jelle van Dijk | 10 comments

Please share widely: We are hiring! Are you the Postdoc we are looking for? 📌 Deadline: Oktober 10! Design for Neurodiversity! University of Twente is looking for a Postdoc on a project about co-de...

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Fermion @weylfermion.bsky.social · Jun 12

Joining the war on autism, on the side of autism

Training to max out RAADS-R

5 reps of infodumping

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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 16d

AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT: “one of this pile of 50p pieces isn’t actually a 50p piece, it’s a minutely-different Mauritian 10 rupee piece”

Sounds like a cliche?? But this happened to me today!

lena @lenazun.bsky.social · 16d

AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT: “we’re going to the same restaurant where I always go with you specifically and I’m ordering the same thing.”

Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 16d

AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT: “This is the wrong kind of spoon. It is not a good spoon. The bowl shape is all wrong.”

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lena @lenazun.bsky.social · 16d

AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT: “we’re going to the same restaurant where I always go with you specifically and I’m ordering the same thing.”

Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 16d

AUTISM ANNOUNCEMENT: “This is the wrong kind of spoon. It is not a good spoon. The bowl shape is all wrong.”

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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 16d

On Trump, autism and tylenol:

A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim

“It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain”

There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.

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Josh Trebach, MD @jtrebach.bsky.social · 16d

hi, medical toxicologist that knows a lot about Tylenol here👋 Claiming that tylenol use in pregnancy causes autism is fearmongering

here's what you need to know 🧵

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17d

Greta Thunberg and the Flotilla have made their last stop, they are now less than 1000 miles from Israel

Sometime within the next 6 days Israel is going to try to stop them

The people of the world stand with them, it's time the Governments did, they must be protected

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EerilyPhD 👻 @ejwillingham.bsky.social · 16d

&stated other findings were v likely bc of confounding. Also, pet studies of theirs done by guy whose COI is “expert witness for plaintiff…on matters of general causation involving acetaminophen use during pregnancy&its potential links to neurodevelopmental disorders”
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17d

Breaking News: Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized Palestinian statehood.

Britain, Australia and Canada Recognize a Palestinian State

The announcements came on the eve of the annual gathering of the U.N. General Assembly.

nyti.ms

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 19d

Hurrah!

What an honour to join @thrivingautistic.bsky.social's Discovery Celebration event last night!

Read the Discovery report:
www.thrivingautistic.org/discovery-ev...

Watch the 2 new animations about Autistic experiences:
www.thrivingautistic.org/autistic-exp...

Educational Animation Videos about Autistic Experiences

Our two new neuro-affirming educational animation videos celebrate Autistic experiences and perspectives.

www.thrivingautistic.org

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 19d

Hurrah!
We can finally share the animations I have been working on with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social
First short film is: Discovering You're Autistic
Please do let us know what you think and share if you find valuable!

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Discovering You're Autistic

YouTube video by Thriving Autistic

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Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social · 20d

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

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Anne Corwin @feliscorvus.bsky.social · 20d

Yes! I don’t even know if he remembers he already declared “Antifa” a terrorist org more than once, but he absolutely has.

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 20d

Gentle reminder that Trump also declared Antifa a terrorist organization once in 2019 and once in 2020, and Congress also entertained resolutions to this effect in 2019, 2021, and in January of this year.

I don't think democracy is dead. I think Trump is, once again, flailing.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20d

It's pretty clear that they got their Reichstag Fire with the Kirk assassination. Democracy is dead.

We now have a fascist dictator.

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 20d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:
He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group.

There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi.

He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 20d

Yep that’s right. IMHO.

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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 20d

Delighted to be at Experimental Pragmatics in Cambridge #XPRAG2025 to talk about how adopting a neurodiversity paradigm foundation combined with autistic scholarship (Milton’s double empathy problem) and participatory methods allowed us to reveal new insights into autistic communication & culture

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 21d

The Wheel of Life is a popular coaching & productivity tool. Stimpunks Co-Creative Director Helen Edgar developed a "Neuro-Affirming Neurodivergent and Disabled Wheel of Life". It's a gentle, flexible tool for checking in with yourself & honouring your needs.

autisticrealms.com/neuro-affirm...

The Neuro-Affirming Wheel of Life Journal is here Designed for neurodivergent & disabled people, this gentle tool helps you reflect on your energy, flow, sensory needs, and more—at your own pace. Honour your rhythms. Follow your flow.

Explore the Neuro-Affirming Wheel of Life Journal created by Helen Edgar of Autistic Realms. A reflective, neurodiversity-affirming tool designed for neurodivergent, Autistic, ADHD, and disabled…

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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 21d

I would say “neurodivergent people” for that.

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♾️Clear Autism♾️ @clearautism.bsky.social · 25d

It probably reflects my personal "words mean things" conviction, but this is one of my personal bugbears and whenever I see this it's like an itch I cannot scratch 😭

Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 25d

This meme is flagging the problems that arise when people use “neurodiverse” to talk exclusively about neurodivergent people - and often exclusively about those with confirmed diagnoses.

Yes we need language that identifies separate groups but “neurodiverse” connects us all together.

A meme showing two pictures of Winnie The Pooh (a children’s book character who is a bear). In the top image he is looking disapproving and wearing a red T-shirt. The text next to him says “welcome to our neurodiverse student hub”. In the below image he is wearing a bow tie and dinner jacket and looking impressed. The text next to him says “welcome to our neurodiverse school”

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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 25d

…the thing to avoid is using neurodiverse to refer EXCLUSIVELY to non-neurotypical people.

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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 25d

If I wanted to describe a population or large group of people who are all not neurotypical I’d probably say “neurodivergent people”

Another option is “people from neuro-minorities”

That group might be neurodiverse in terms of including lots of neurotypes, but so is any group. So for me…

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 25d

The words in capital say everything!

Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 25d

So my keynote at #AECongress25 involved a lot of memes to illustrate my points about how to understand and apply the neurodiversity paradigm.

The focus is on LIBERATION from OPPRESSIVE systems and beliefs.

This will work best, I believe, when we COLLECTIVISE our action.

Here we go…

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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 25d

And It Takes All Kinds Of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School

Edited by @drrachaeldavis.bsky.social and @claruineill.bsky.social

www.routledge.com/It-Takes-All...

It Takes All Kinds of Minds: Fostering Neurodivergent Thriving at School

It Takes All Kinds of Minds provides an inspiring and accessible introduction to neurodiversity in educational settings, informed by research and real-world experience. Drawing upon core principles th...

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