TheAutisticAdvocate A recent review of 389 studies showed that masking/camouflaging lacks conceptual validity, that the research has been mostly carried out on late-diagnosed females and that masking hasn’t been shown to be autism-specific. A large number of studies is not the same as high quality

Masking has no scientific validity, says Uta Frith, after sixty years of autism research. Yet masking resonates with so many autistic people. It feels true and it feels like an explanation. Both of those things can be true at the same time. Masking does resonate with many

He's just envious (I'm not sure jealous is the correct word) that Musk is a self made multibillionaire and he's never had a job or made a dollar in his life that did not come to him due to the patronage of the Getty and Pelosi families. #recallnewsom

Tony Attwood has stated he has the "autistic profile" rather than it being a disabling condition for him. I feel this is very irresponsible - autism is a disability, you can't just have the profile, that is something else, not autism.

This is why I do think the NDM is massively harming the autism diagnosis, because ppl like me with severe impairments could be not understood if ppl say anyone can claim autism without impairment.

Interesting, a conflict between two very famous celebrities, one a #neurodiversity proponent and one an anti-vaxxer who believes #autism is caused by vaccines and Tylenol. aol.com/lifestyle/cher…

He wasn't bullying you. Just making the factually correct statement that you have a learning disability that would likely interfere with her ability to run the country in the horrible hypothetical situation that you might be Potus. This is aside from the fact you've never had a

Not really it's just that the majority of #neurodiversity proponents are late dxed women (if they have a dx at all) and they want to legitimize themselves as authentic #autistics and to show that girls are discriminated against in autism dx, so this is how the entire camouflage

I don't give a shit about awareness I just want a cure and an end to this misery acceptance is nothing but a #neurodiversity con job to make behavioraly challenged people believe society will ever put up with them and they can have a satisfactory social life and success in the

Probably a #neurodiversity proponent

Eric Daugherty Newsom in an enemy to the people

This article is nothing but a lie. The IACC_Autism has never done anything to influence research in #autism. They are complaining about FC, but don't give a shit that former IACC member and #neurodiversity proponent Hari Srinivasan used a keyboard to communicate. They don't

just another #neurodiversity type trope from our esteemed governor, but even assuming that is true (e.g. Einstein had dyslexia) Newsom certainly does not have one of the greatest minds in history. He was born with a platinum spoon in his mouth, was set up in his winery business

commentary on construct validity of social camouflage in #autism by Independent autism coordinating committee member Zack Williams Zack Williams, MD, PhD It was sort of hard for me to understand this, but I guess Williams makes some valid points that the validity of the various

Oh yeah, and on an interesting side note Williams has received consulting fees from Roche pharmaceuticals (I have no idea what this entails but I'll see if I can dig deeper and find out) This is interesting because of the obsession that the anti-vaxxers and the Kennedy IACC

"Zachary Williams: One of the key recommendations was to co-design clinical trials with members of the autism community. If you want to run a trial with people who are autistic and have gastrointestinal problems, then have some autistic people with gastrointestinal problems on

he'd make a better president than just about anyone else running, but I doubt he'd win.

new novel coming out soon by an allegedly #autistic novelist who lives in Los Angeles (my city). He's partially nonverbal I've written five novels, had no success. After I'd written my first novel, "The School of Hard Knocks" , jjmore than 20 years ago, I dreamed of using my