Have you seen our new paper from Autistic Doctors International on #autistic psychiatrists? PSI SIG in Autism Thriving Autistic AsIAm Neurodiversity Ireland

🗞️🗞️NEW PAPER🗞️🗞️ "medical education will fundamentally fail in its mission to support neurodivergent learners unless we undergo a significant transformation" Read free: …epublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… BSMS #Neurodiversity #MedEd

💬 "this paradigm promotes critical thinking around things we have previously passively accepted as real. This considers the influence of power on how we constructed such historical ‘truths’ and how these are then maintained as part of the wider status quo"

Laurence and Elysia have collaborated with Anna, Rosiel, Scout, Kai, and Jane to write a paper about neurodivergence, intersectionality, and eating disorders from the perspective of lived experience. InsideOut Institute Butterfly Foundation Beat link.springer.com/article/10.118… #neurodiversity

When your ACF supervisor is researcher goals 🔥🔥🔥 As always, a hugely ‘lightbulb’ and engaging talk from Dr Jess Eccles on the interaction between body and brain! BendyBrain: Dr Jessica Eccles #NDPSIG2024

Ulrich Müller-Sedgwick BendyBrain: Dr Jessica Eccles Beyond the neurotype: Dr. Eccles explores complex but ever present brain-body links & overlap across neurodevelopmental conditions,especially hyper-mobility in neurodevelopmental & psychiatric conditions & beyond @SamuelJTromans Dr Sana Fatima RCPsych Digital Psychiatry SIG RCPsych Northern & Yorkshire #NDPSIG2024

We are pleased to see more accurate terminology used by Seb Shaw (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈, something we have been publishing & advocating for many years ! #thinkingDifferently #neurodiversityParadigm vs neurodiversity and #neurodivergence

BendyBrain: Dr Jessica Eccles Wowed by Sam Porter speaking the TRUTH about perinatal challenges for women with autism and ADHD. Why are clinicians so reluctant to allow patient autonomy? #NDPSIG2024

BendyBrain: Dr Jessica Eccles Sam Porter The neurodivergence paradigm - stimulating presentation from Seb Shaw (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 dispelling common myths Royal College of Psychiatrists #NDPSIG2024

Ulrich Müller-Sedgwick BendyBrain: Dr Jessica Eccles @SamuelJTromans Dr Sana Fatima RCPsych Digital Psychiatry SIG RCPsych Northern & Yorkshire University of Sussex BSMS University of Surrey Sam Porter Seb Shaw (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 Ben Erin sharing a refreshing perspective on Neurodivergence and Creativity. Researching on this fascinating theme ‘with’ neurodivergent people and how these learnings help us understand NDV in different contexts. BSMS #NDPSIG2024 #RCPsychThinkingDifferently 🧠🔆

Really exceptional talk from Ben Erin (BSMS) at NDP SIG this afternoon, exploring his research (with BendyBrain: Dr Jessica Eccles) on why neurodivergent people may be more creative

The last speaker panel of the day from this wonderful conference with various speakers and Chairs NDP SIG #NDPSIG2924 #thinkingDifferently #UlrichMullerSedgewick BendyBrain: Dr Jessica Eccles #BErin Sam Porter #MKinnear Seb Shaw (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 #MEvison

I was so delighted to be part of the NDP SIG conference and hear from so many interesting speakers before and during it. Here is a snapshot of some of them and not least SEDSConnective patron Dr Eccles Chair of NDPSIG who I felt did the most amazing plenary speech.

Huge congrats to Autistic Doctors International member Dr Samantha Samantha 💙 #LiveableNHSBursary, blazing a trail for #autistic medical students & doctors everywhere🩺🎉 Watch out for her project at Autism-Europe Congress, deepening our knowledge of the experiences & support needs of autistic medical students

New paper out from Dr Helen Smith Mary Doherty 🏳️‍🌈 Seb Shaw (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈 and Jon Ives: Reasonable adjustments for autistic clinicians: A qualitative study.  doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Epistemic injustice... being autistic means one’s credibility and capacity to relate an accurate account of one’s own experience is often questioned. How can I be a doctor if I am autistic? Conversely, how can I be autistic if I am a doctor? thelancet.com/journals/lance…

The release of this book snuck up on me! Finally The Neurodiversity Child Autism Assessment Handbook is to be released soon (April 21st), which will take you step by step through a truly neurodiversity affirmative child Autistic identification.

Happy to share that our commentary (with amazing Harikeerthan Raghuram (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈), was published y’day in the Medical Education by Association for the Study of Medical Education. Since then, we’ve been receiving deeply personal messages—from neuroatypical superspecialists who had to drop out mid-course 1/ …epublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…