You Might Be Autistic Honestly I think I just would not have gone to highschool

You Might Be Autistic That being different is not a moral failing and that if I be myself, there will be people who appreciate that. Some people won't, but that's ok. My people are out there and I can find them. Also that it's ok to walk away. If something is making me miserable I can always walk away

You Might Be Autistic I would tell my younger self that who he is and the way his brain works is great and he is beautiful. And that just because literally no one else in his life can see that does not mean it is not true.

You Might Be Autistic That you do not have to be in cultures that bully you. There are tons of alternative schools/unschooling/healthy communities where bullying is simply not acceptable.

Quite a stat

Creepy.org bikers have more ethics than our politicians

When you don't you are Autistic or Sensory Sensitive, you are unaware of why you are feeling so rubbish, you don't realise its the lighting, the feeling of sweat trickling down your body or the internal symptoms that are triggering your distress. It increases the fear not knowing

If you could go back and better prepare your #Autistic young self for the bullying. What advice would you give? What tools would you impart?

Pretty much every child excluded at primary school has SEND. Every so often a stat stops you in your tracks, and this is one of them.

#Katy Elphinstone Bill Wong, OTD, OTR/L sciencegate.app/document/10.11…

The Therapist Neurodiversity Collective is a great resource for all things neuro-affirming and understanding autistic experiences!!

therapistndc.org/positive-behav…

#Katy Elphinstone “A consequence of everything being about 'children with autism': no one thinks about the adults. They desire desperately to make us indistinguishable from peers… and then as soon as we meet that goal, we're allbetternow.”
timetolisten.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-ty…

#Katy Elphinstone Kuperstein’s 2018 study links it to PTSD, Dettmering, 2024 admitted behaviour change isn’t about making people happy or healthy, Therapist Neurodiversity Collective might know more, or Lauren C. , several studies on distressed behaviours increasing as a result

#Katy Elphinstone This is a comprehensive article here about harms in #ABA autisticscienceperson.com/why-aba-therap…

#Katy Elphinstone As a matter of interest, there's also 'Why Categivers Discontinue ABA': hennyk.com/articles/

#Katy Elphinstone the74million.org/article/americ…

Does anyone know of any research studies linking behavioural therapies ( #ABA , #PBS , etc.) with mental health problems in autistic people?

#AskingAutistics #ActuallyAutistic #Research #ABA

Liz Peecock #Katy Elphinstone I think to be honest with therapies such as CBT or DbT they are all about telling people that the way they think or act is wrong. Eg if you are anxious or depressed it is because you are thinking or behaving wrong. That is not good either for autistic people or for NTs

Liz Peecock #Katy Elphinstone Both CBT and ABA are based on ‘fake it till you make it’, do something even if it makes you feel uncomfortable or you are exhausted or anxious to get there in the end

Liz Peecock #Katy Elphinstone Fake it till you make it doesn’t work for autistic people, they get burn out and crash

#Katy Elphinstone autistic violinist (´･ᴗ･ ` ) This paper on a Social Skills Intervention discusses improvements to the 'school climate' and there was a mention of 'cost effectiveness' in there too. Yuk!
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…