Amazing to see so much love for Dr Anna Stenning's Narrating the Many Autisms at their book launch this evening. I think everyone touched by autism should have the opportunity to read this book - and it's open access, so now you do! taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/…

Shared doc info: docs.google.com/document/d/1jh…

Hey, fam! I’m doing a follow up panel with my amazing PANS/PANDAS & Lyme crew to field parent/caregiver questions and needs in triaging challenges. Please feel free to add questions/thoughts to this shared doc if you have something to ask! Questions needed by 4/29. Intl fam too!

In this lovely film, autistic adults explain how their difficult experiences of school haven’t held them back or defined them youtu.be/SnqSSA573Lk?si…

Our article received enough citations to be #TopCitedArticle in CogSci Society journal😹

Don't you dare rain on my parade! So little wins in academia lol

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“We urgently need more joined up health & educational relationships too, seeing a young person who can, not who can't”

Insightful thread from lisa chapman about systems meeting needs.

Huge shout out to Holly Sprake-Hill 🌈 Occupational Therapy is #StrengthsInAction 💚 for a fab podcast podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/autis… shared so much at work over the last 2 days. Essential drive time listening for parents & professionals of #ActuallyAutistic CYP. It's already on the NDA.CEN padlet. Looking forward to more 💜

📽️ Westminster debate: Over a quarter of carers live in poverty, rising to half of those who care for more than 35 hours a week.

45% of people receiving Carer's Allowance are struggling to make ends meet due to punitive policies limiting their ability to earn an income 🧵 (1/)

Exactly this. Typer Durden speaks to this with his concept of 'structural shame' (i.e. the personal responsibility we feel for systemic issues, when really the responsbility lies with the underlying structures of power which enable these in the first place). I'm going to (1/2)

In other words, researchers haven't ever bothered to ask us.

Now, wouldn't it be the most sensible thing in the world to actually ask people what their experiences were, of autistic stimming versus OCD?

This is yet another example of how utterly bizarre the research field is/

Ha. There is new research.
It looks at how researchers spotted the difference between autistic stimming etc, and OCD.
link.springer.com/article/10.100…
29 bits of research studied by them.
'No studies reported explicit input from autistic individuals or individuals with OCD'/

Una llamada a profesionales en distintas áreas para el cambio en la mentalidad sobre el #autismo #CEA #TEA researchgate.net/publication/37…

A few months ago I wrote a blog post about how hard it is going to baby groups as an #autistic parent. autisticslt.com/babygroups

more backlash against neurodivergents demanding state support in the telegraph today.

It is time to remind the so-called “civilised” world about non-pathologising and coherent theories of human ways of being that are integrated into ecologies of care and the evolutionary flows of life in-formation autcollab.org/2023/09/07/coh….

I love my special interest. Even when it's all-consuming, my SpIn isn't the problem.

Workshops about 'reducing' or 'making constructive use' of interests are a problem (below).

Let's try workshops on changing the education system so students can learn from their interests!

Tony Attwood often wishes autistic ppl would engage less in our 'special' interests, but evidence of course supports their benefits. It's telling he recommends that parents/carers, care workers, teachers & mental health professionals but not autistic ppl otherwise attend his talk

We're launching the Neurodivergent Peer Support Toolkit (NEST) this summer! ☀️

This is a suite of free resources co-designed with neurodivergent young people & adults to help mainstream secondary schools establish a peer support group for neurodivergent students🌈

Square Peg on the main stage at #SAASHOW . Who’d have think it?

Register your free place to join: invt.io/1txbiso454z Schools & Academies Show Jon Severs Children & Young People's Mental Health Coalition Crown House Publishing Independent Thinking Dr Chris Bagley 👋 Ben Davis Steve B

Education, what’s the point? Maybe this? independentthinking.co.uk/resources/the-…