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Enactive Autistic Synaesthete https://neurodissidence.org.uk/ Alice in Wonderland Syndrome Posts from this account may contain madness Path Diversity

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Happy to share our new Opinion now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social, with Catherine Tallon-Baudry and Anthony Clément!

A dual-function framework of interoception: the information and coordination modes of interoceptive signaling

Full access:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1miOLbotqB...

#neuroskyence

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Multimethod research on precarious work under disabling capitalism: Methodological reflections - Ioana Cerasella Chis, 2026 This article offers methodological reflections on the possibilities and challenges of multimethod research on disability politics and precarious work. These ref...

'Multimethod research on precarious work under disabling capitalism: Methodological reflections' - Bulletin of Sociological Methodology
[out now]
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#DisabilityStudies #DisabilityResearch #Anticapitalism #AntiWork

10.03.2026 12:03 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1

Like most autistic folk I found Uta Frith’s recent remarks rather shocking in her dismissal of autistic lived testimony. It should be noted that Frith’s theory of ‘weak central coherence’ has been reorientated from a deficit account to a difference account by some autistic researchers and advocates.

11.03.2026 12:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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

10.03.2026 20:51 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

“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

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjo...

10.03.2026 15:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Autism in Viet Nam: A systematic scoping review - Leoni Boyle, Prithvi Perepa, Kerry Thalia, Laura Crane, 2026 Autism research has predominantly focused on Western contexts, with limited studies in Vietnamese cultural settings. Through conducting a systematic scoping rev...

Autism in Viet Nam: A systematic scoping review

Leoni Boyle, Prithvi Perepa, Kerry Thalia, Laura Crane

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

10.03.2026 15:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

10.03.2026 09:25 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1

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)

10.03.2026 10:27 👍 12 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Pernicious diversity, neutrality, and right values - PhilSci-Archive

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Pernicious diversity, neutrality, and right values

D. Hicks

philsci-archive.pitt.edu/28499/

10.03.2026 10:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If you are capable of critiquing old school autism research, you cannot be autistic. 😂😂😂

10.03.2026 04:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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.

09.03.2026 23:01 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Martyn Butler obituary Co-founder of the Terrence Higgins Trust, the leading HIV charity, in 1982

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...

09.03.2026 21:01 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Reality is not a controlled hallucination <p><em>The idea that 'reality is a controlled hallucination' has been recently popularised by figures such as philosopher Anil Seth. But this claim, which purports to be hard, down-to-earth science, i...

"Reality Is Not a Controlled Hallucination" by yours truly iai.tv/articles/rea...

09.03.2026 13:08 👍 61 🔁 13 💬 7 📌 7

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.

09.03.2026 19:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“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”

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“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”

09.03.2026 19:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

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...

09.03.2026 19:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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From heterogeneity to idiosyncrasy in the autistic brain - Nature Mental Health In this Perspective, the authors present a dynamical systems perspective to autism emphasizing a more person-focused view in autism research. This framework explains why group-average approaches are o...

From heterogeneity to idiosyncrasy in the autistic brain

Hsiang-Yuan Lin, Michael Breakspear, Laurent Mottron

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

09.03.2026 19:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Autism and ADHD: does the global rise in diagnosed neurodivergence reflect increased awareness of undiagnosed cases? Diagnoses of autism and other neurodivergence are rising. Jessica Eccles and Elizabeth Weir say that the trend is real—and that claims of “overdiagnosis” and insistence on exact case numbers are unhel...

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/...

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On the difference between learning THE world and learning FROM THE world A Preposition That Changed Everything

On the difference between learning THE world and learning FROM THE world
A Preposition That Changed Everything

donothingparenting.substack.com/p/on-the-dif...

09.03.2026 18:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Blaming AI for the deaths of Iranian schoolgirls is like blaming lifestyle choices for poverty. Totally mendacious narrative.

09.03.2026 10:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NHS England pauses new prescriptions of cross-sex hormones for under-18s The health service said young people who already receive the drugs will continue to do so.

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...

09.03.2026 10:06 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

For me, Kathryn Stott’s exquisite interpretation of Fauré’s piano music warrant this award.

09.03.2026 09:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

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...

08.03.2026 17:42 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Dominant Psychiatric Explanations, Self-Narration, and Master Narratives - Topoi Dominant psychiatric explanations, i.e., explanations of why mental disorders or specific collections of psychiatric symptoms occur that are popular and widely adopted in a given community or society,...

Dominant Psychiatric Explanations, Self-Narration, and Master Narratives

Nina S. de Boer

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

08.03.2026 17:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hot spots and frontiers in autistic traits in the general population from 2008 to 2023: A bibliometric analysis

journals.lww.com/md-journal/f...

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Hoping for a ‘perfect’ baby? Genetic testing startups lur... Fertility experts say strict UK laws are no bar to accessing a booming industry that has led to concerns about eugenics

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...

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Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization March 18-19, 2026 Symposium, McNamara Alumni Center, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis

Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization

Kim TallBear 

kimtallbear.substack.com/p/holding-ou...

08.03.2026 10:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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When the Spectrum Collapses Complexity, Cognition, and the Limits of Containment

Another take on Uta Frith’s recent article.

When the Spectrum Collapses

shergriffin.substack.com/p/when-the-s...

07.03.2026 16:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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!

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