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Yes, and targeted relentlessly by predators. The statistics for e.g. how many autistic women are attacked are too awful to relate here. "Less vulnerable", eh? "Let's take their diagnosis away - that will make them safe" eh?
Absolute rubbish, isn't it.
The other 95% of autistic people certainly are suffering from something - Professors whose key work in the field of autism happened decades ago, and who cannot understand that research has moved on.
Thank goodness we found the women, the adults, the Black and Brown people, etc. It's been a mess.
As is also true for the alleged 'gold standard' criteria for autism, which turns out to be measuring young white boys, and failing to identify nearly everyone else. Also true for the 'gold standard' treatments that don't have a shred of good RCT evidence behind them. It's all a mess.
Good question.
Noting some sharing her doubt about testing of masking, in autism. For me, the personal accounts of 1000s of autistic people, & work of research specialists, hold huge value. I appreciate some say only a full scale RCT will ever be good enough - but qualitative work is as important.
Repetitive behaviour.
In some cases it's because some of their now-famous pupils are now earning massive money in cure-groups, whose wealth now depends on providing neat groups of identical people for testing and enforced cure - and the concept of diversity threatens that wealth. Wish I was joking.
Thanks - one of many who wade through the outdated and bizarre thinking of the past, and put up modern research & compassionate findings instead.
From the fervent belief that starving vulnerable people will make us all better off, see?
Sigh.
It never ends, does it.
annsautism.blogspot.com/2025/06/auti... May be helpful for those that prefer modern research findings, grounded in curiosity, deep listening, and humility in knowing when we could have done better in the past.
Uta's been saying this kind of things for years, alas. The world moved on. I fear she cannot.
Have put up a quick summary. I think my initial 'Oh dear' is right.
Ah, another of Prof. Uta's regular, "The world moved on & I don't like it" articles, claiming that autism is a disease, & inferring most autistic women are likely misdiagnosed - not autistic, that if you can manage a conversation you're not autistic, & there's no such thing as masking.
Oh dear.
Indeed so, in my view.
Trouble is, when one is committed to the idea that autism = cannot communicate, it becomes a perfect excuse not to listen.
Oh dear. Will have a look. Thanks.
"The YouGov weekly voting intention poll puts Reform UK on 23%, down one, Greens on 21%, up four, Labour and the Tories tied on 16, both down two, and the Lib Dems unchanged on 14."
"The online survey will run from Monday, 2 March to Monday, 30 March 2026 and aims to gain an insight into demographic data, the single-sex spaces people have been questioned for using and the wider effects of the ruling on people’s day-to-day lives."
Today is the disability day of mourning, a day to mourn the loss of disabled people who were killed by their caregivers, and the way that society responds to these deaths.
Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
My goodness.
Added a reply showing the Alt Text for them. it would be good to see all posters ensuring they do this, eh.
I'd like to congratulate Hannah Spencer on her election as the new MP for Gorton and Denton. This result shows people are bitterly disappointed with Labour but horrified by the rise of Reform. Keir Starmer's government has been consumed by the Westminster soap opera instead of delivering on the issues that matter most, tackling the cost of living crisis and fixing the NHS. It's clear people are willing to vote tactically for the party best placed to beat Reform, and across huge swathes of the country that is the Liberal Democrats. We've seen that in our record gains in local elections, and we will see it again come the elections in May. Daisy Cooper, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats
This time with Alt Text.
This is critically important for our future. The struggle over ethical parameters for AI use will determine whether authoritarian states can enact mass surveillance of their populations at granular level and allow machines to decide to kill people.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Very well done the Greens in the Gorton & Denton by-election. Whilst I'm a Lib Dem, I never object to the Greens displacing Reform in the polls and final results.
"Grandparents may feel very worried when they hear that their grandchild is autistic. This may be because they may be confused about what autism is, and what it isn’t." A friendly and neuro-inclusive autism primer, from @annmemmott.bsky.social:
www.autismcentral.org.uk/news/blog-gr... #autism
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Reform are finding their anti migrant & divisive rhetoric is not working anymore. I think people are sick of it and want solutions.. Farage doesn't have any of those solutions because he pretends to be a man of the people but he's a man of the wealthy people.."🎯
Please add your voice … the ECB’s decision has had a devastating impact on my mental wellbeing as a long term player of women’s cricket …
www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/spi... This is good news. Too many people use all manner of spiritual/immigration-based coercive control and violence against others, and it's been hellish for Courts to find them guilty. I really hope this helps.
Hurrah! It is time for another Monthly Round-Up of Research from @annmemmott.bsky.social and @ndconnection.bsky.social
Autism, Neurodivergence, Support Needs and Inclusion — What’s New in February from Neurodiverse Connection
ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-...
Aye. I wish we were joking, but this is a very real and very sobering time in the US and it needs to wake up.
