This is your friendly reminder that when it comes to debates about autism being over or under diagnosed, there are more options than 1) expand autism or 2) leave people who would likely benefit from a diagnosis without a diagnosis. #autism
“50%–94% of children with FASD meet the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-fifth edition diagnostic criteria for ADHD”
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder stimulant trial in children
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Autism in Viet Nam: A systematic scoping review
Leoni Boyle, Prithvi Perepa, Kerry Thalia, Laura Crane
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New paper in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social exploring autistic adults embodied experiences of offline and online sociality.
The paper is co-authored with @joelkrueger.com, and funded by @carlsbergfondet.dk.
#Autism #Neurodiversity #Phenomenology #Embodiment
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Research note: Kanner's original N=11 autistics had extremely heterogeneous later outcomes, as generally did the autistics he reported on, as generally did diagnosed autistics in the literature before the "spectrum" became a thing (just a brief reminder, in case anyone's forgotten)
Preprint
Pernicious diversity, neutrality, and right values
D. Hicks
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28499/
If you are capable of critiquing old school autism research, you cannot be autistic. 😂😂😂
Rather than ask what’s driving the increase in neurodivergent students in education, ask what’s driving education policy to fail increasing numbers of neurodivergent students.
RIP Martyn Butler, cofounder of the Terrence Higgins Trust. A truly important, groundbreaking and campaigning figure. For me an icon to be proud of
a gay man who fought the filth of people like Thatcher and the homophobics and brought succour to so many xxxxx
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
"Reality Is Not a Controlled Hallucination" by yours truly iai.tv/articles/rea...
Imv, autistic researchers and advocates should cease saying that autistic people don’t know they are as a consequence of masking. It is an enfeebling narrative and feeds into anti trans and anti self diagnosis narratives.
“There is also likely to be an increased prevalence of children and young people presenting to the NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service with severe forms of mental health problems which may in some cases constitute a ‘disability’ for the purpose of the Act”
“Around 35% of young people referred to the NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service may present with moderate to severe autistic traits”
“Around 70% of people with autism also meet diagnostic criteria for at least one psychiatric disorder that further impairs psychosocial functioning”
Draft for the purpose of public consultation
NHS Children and Young People’s Gender Service: Proposed adoption of a ‘Non Routine Commissioning’ Clinical Commissioning Policy for Masculinising and Feminising Hormones
www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/u...
From heterogeneity to idiosyncrasy in the autistic brain
Hsiang-Yuan Lin, Michael Breakspear, Laurent Mottron
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
The recent Maudsley debate
Autism and ADHD: does the global rise in diagnosed neurodivergence reflect increased awareness of undiagnosed cases?
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
On the difference between learning THE world and learning FROM THE world
A Preposition That Changed Everything
donothingparenting.substack.com/p/on-the-dif...
Blaming AI for the deaths of Iranian schoolgirls is like blaming lifestyle choices for poverty. Totally mendacious narrative.
The Cass Review’s findings are synonymous with the eugenic notion of “feeblemindedness”. Both trans and neurodivergent people are asserted to be unable to decide who they are, either due to disrupted internal mechanisms or susceptibility to “social contagion.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
For me, Kathryn Stott’s exquisite interpretation of Fauré’s piano music warrant this award.
Unsurprisingly, the reactionary intellectual coalition of evolutionary psychology, transhumanism and new atheism were also fellows at the Epstein network...
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
Dominant Psychiatric Explanations, Self-Narration, and Master Narratives
Nina S. de Boer
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Hot spots and frontiers in autistic traits in the general population from 2008 to 2023: A bibliometric analysis
journals.lww.com/md-journal/f...
Pretty good overview of the non-medical uses of polygenic screening in IVF - good to see comments from Peter Thompson and Sarah Norcross. The legal position is indeed now hard to enforce in the UK, as the article explains. One thing I'd like to see emphasized more...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization
Kim TallBear
kimtallbear.substack.com/p/holding-ou...
Another take on Uta Frith’s recent article.
When the Spectrum Collapses
shergriffin.substack.com/p/when-the-s...
We show that synesthesia is sensory and automatic in nature: the pupil scales with the brightness of experienced synesthetic colors. doi.org/10.7554/eLif...
Now in its new dress @elife.bsky.social (convincing & valuable in round 1).
If anyone wants to pick up the method, happy to share & explain!
The United States slaughtered school children in Iran, aided by AI.
Photographs of 1970s East London Squatters Found After 50 Years
Joyce Edwards' portraits of East London squatters in the 1970s show us the people who saved abandoned homes and created a social housing project that survives to this day.
flashbak.com/photographs-...
"... One Grateful Dead show at the old Auditorium that is generally missing from most chronologies (including Deadlists) was the band's appearance at a Black Panther Benefit celebrating Huey Newton's birthday, among various other things. The Black Panther Party were a crucial cause celebre in the East Bay and throughout the Nation, and Oakland Auditorium was about a mile from the Panthers birthplace just across the Grove Shafter freeway. The story of the Black Panthers and their complicated relationship with hippies and liberals is well outside the scope of this blog, but suffice to say that the normally non-political Grateful Dead could feel comfortable supporting the Panthers since they were seen as trans-political: supporting the Panthers at the time was like opposing the Vietnam War or being pro-Ecology, a moral position that superseded any immediate political issues...."
March 5, 1971
Oakland Auditorium, Oakland CA
Huey Newton Birthday Celebration with The Grateful Dead
