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We're excited to collaborate with the amazing F.E.A.S.T. to establish a Carers and Supporters Advisory Board that will guide our project.

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'Patients weaning themselves off antidepressants are turning to online support groups due to a lack of information and support, with a new study finding Facebook and other platforms are filling a gap left by clinicians.'

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🤦‍♀️ The Guardian ????

'the prevalence of autism..., the popularity of ABA as a treatment for autism..., and the funding availability for ABA services have resulted in the proliferation of the ABA industry'? link.springer.com/article/10.100… 'some estimates figure that ABA is at least a $4 billion industry'

My 1st first author paper is published! In this scoping review, we examined the strengths, challenges and research recommendations to using participatory methods with #autistic youth in K-12 public schools. frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… n/1

‘…staff called her pathetic, shouted at her and accused her of harming herself deliberately when observations were due’
#NeglectedToDeath nottinghampost.com/news/nottingha…

Homeless people who have been labelled with a so-called 'personality disorder' are 'super-difficult patients'...
Stigma and prejudice 😩. Obviously these vulnerable people need some more marginalisation and discrimination to make them feel better.

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It's ironic to me that when I talk with my autistic friends about the challenges we face socially, a lot of it is about how little empathy non-autistic people have with us and our experience. Sigh.

(1/2) “Autistic masking is the conscious or unconscious suppression of natural responses and adoption of alternatives across a range of domains including social interaction, sensory experience, cognition, movement, and behavior.” Pearson & Rose, 2021

If you're working with autistic young people, it's important to understand alexithymia - a difficulty in identifying, describing and expressing emotions.
Our trustee Emily explains what it's like to have alexithymia -bit.ly/AGNAlexithymia

#Neurodivergence #Neurodiversity

Autistic people must be at the heart of #Autism research to ensure ethical practice.

Read our The Conversation article by Dr Gemma L. Williams 🌈 (she/they) Willow Holloway of Autistic UK #TheFutureIsGold & I, as part of our Wellcome funded project.

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New review finds that many autistic people use camouflaging to pursue friendships but find it exhausting and ineffective, highlights need to understand and support other ways of obtaining satisfying relationships liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au…

The audio book version of Young, Autistic and ADHD has cracked two top 100 besteller lists in separate categories! (And is being referred to as a hot new release🤯)

Thank you to everyone who is pre-ordering! and if you haven't so already ⬇️

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I think depression is sometimes just a great ‘no’ to the conditions of life. And the worst thing you can do is try to convince someone that something’s wrong with their brain instead of acknowledging that the world/their situation/etc is fucked and they are correctly seeing that.

Internalising Autistic Meltdowns #Autism #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent #Disability

'A physician is suing the FDA for its lack of action to inform consumers taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) about potential long-term side-effects.'

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Due to a lack of training ppl forced to get advice on how to safely come off antidepressants from social media. When will curricula be updated to stop this from happening? Not just dizziness/headaches but suicidality and akathisia. Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines might help

Our reminder that 'profound autism' is defined any way a team happens to invent that day. Utterly meaningless term.

Quite a peculiar turn of events when social media sites have more accurate information about drug withdrawal effects than professionals - the results of decades of misinformation from industry playing down these effects which has entered guidelines. Leads to rampant mis-diagnosis

People coming off antidepressants are looking for help online pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/peopl…