'Struggling with self-acceptance is a vulnerability we autistics would often prefer to hide. Personally, I used to dismiss any and all compliments. If someone praised me, I would close up emotionally and not express acknowledgment or thanks.' New at TPGA:

thinkingautismguide.com/2024/04/accept…

Spread awareness in the black community. It would help someone they know who is autistic. I cannot wait to see y'all on April 19-21! Also, get your tickets to the conference. The link to get the tickets: autisminblack.org/conference2024 or go my Linktree to get the tickets. /2

One thing many autistics frequently do is use a conversation style called cooperative overlap. You might call it an enthusiastic (autistic) way of interrupting! is.gd/L2y4ZP #Autism #Autism Awareness

Join my upcoming online talk 'Colonialingualism and the pervasive practices of inequitable multilingualism' for Andrea MacLeod's Social Justice and Multilingualism Research series.
🗓 May 9, 2024
🕰 1:30 - 2:30pm EDT
Register ➡️eventbrite.com/e/dr-paul-meig…
Thank you for the invite!

Hope to see the thousands of NHS staff trained making sustainable positive changes the lives of thousands of autistic people. We can all be the change we need to see and #NATPmentalhealth helps a lot! Funded by NHS England Workforce, Training and Education
Join the conference open to all: annafreud.org/training/healt…

We asking people to post using #CAMHSDontCareIfAutisticKidsDie

Strong words, I hope this article will help you understand why

emergentdivergence.com/2024/04/12/cam…

Excited to be collaborating with Josh St Pierre & Chris Constantino on a 4-part advanced workshop series ‘Bridging Dysfluency Theory & Clinical Practice’ starting on 13/05/24: app.groupize.com/e/bridging-dys…
HURRY! Only 1 more day to take advantage of the 13/04/24 early bird deadline

Really pleased to share our first publication from our AASP study: “Adapting Safety Plans for Autistic Adults with Involvement from the Autism Community”. Free to access here: liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

Autistic adults tend to see autistic stimming 'as an adaptive mechanism that helps them to soothe or communicate intense emotions or thoughts, & thus objected to treatment that aims to eliminate the behaviour.' Research says so! From Steven Kapp et al.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30818970/

Parents/Guardians with kids with disabilities please take a minute to complete this survey.

Can everyone retweet it please. For too long our schools have not been given the resources to cherish all the children of the state equally.

Caroline is also leading work on Democratic Schooling - an alternative approach to education in England
ucl.ac.uk/grand-challeng…
Visual participatory methodology  was used to elucidate conditions, values and mechanisms that underpin democratic education and generate inclusivity.

Please follow the Caroline Oliver if you have an interest in sociology & disability and you can thank us later ;)
Caroline recently presented important points of tension in home-school relationships when a student is #autistic .
Access full talk here:
youtube.com/watch?v=9kB06H…

Excellent talks at the ROLE symposium by Kamran Khan on native speaker ideologies in citizenship and Vijay Ramjattan on accent ideologies. Thank you organisers for creating this space!

#ADHD user led #ActuallyADHD charity voices

The inquest into Marcus’ death begins on Monday.

His 80 year old mother, Anna, will want answers and I’m sure she won’t want to hear the words, ‘lessons have been learnt’.

'Hospital bed-blocking' or in other words where sick or recovering people who required a hospital bed when ready for discharge are being failed by a lack of appropriate social care resources to allow them to discharge safely home or to a care setting offering appropriate support.

Thanks and plaudits to Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚 for writing another neurodivergent-affirming and anti-ableist book.

' 'Maybe it's because they want to send us away' Bonnie finally says quietly.'

It's so important to use the word -- disability is not a dirty word.

Hi all! I am now recruiting participants for my MSc OT research project. Please see below the details of my research project and please do contact me if you are interested in taking part.

Marcus Hanlin was 57 when he died. I spoke to his mum Anna 'This is an appalling event that has happened in a context. People and things happen, behind those people and things is context, back and back' georgejulian.co.uk/2024/04/12/mar…

I'll be at his inquest on Monday #LearningDisability

Autistic and Zoning Out when the Social Battery Runs Out…