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Hup bodes. En laat ze eens een crisis in het land - de ggz bijvoorbeeld - oplossen in plaats van hun eigen rampenpolonaise. Maar ja. Op de steun voor een debat hierover kon Lisa Westerveld 🟥 niet rekenen. Want ze waren te druk met zichzelf. Pijnlijk treffend filmpje.

Gisèle Pelicot, my Person of the Year.

I still can’t get over how I was admitted to a children’s mental health unit at sixteen and discharged three months later with a diagnosis of mixed personality disorder when my notes describe daily meltdowns and list my triggers as change, lack of routine, noise & strangers.

Day 19 Neurodiversity Affirming Autism Resources from lisa chapman; @commonsenseslt.bsky.social & @Autistic Realms Changes to clothing can be difficult for sensory reasons. Having dress codes is not inclusive and ableist. More reading: Stimpunks Foundation stimpunks.org/glossary/dress…

Wait – is that it? Are you coming back tomorrow?' A participant in South Africa asked at the end of an interview. Bothello & Bonfim (2023) write the participant had “expectation that the interview would yield further interactions and reciprocity stemming from the exchange."

So, my PhD by publication has just been approved by London South Bank University - LSBU. “Autistic doctors: leveraging insider perspectives to improve healthcare for autistic people”. I should be ecstatic. I’m not. Why not?? 🧵👇🏻

Wat een enorm goed artikel van ⁦Jan-Hein Strop⁩ over oneerlijkheid in procedures over uithuisplaatsingen met zinnige bijdragen van veel collega’s. Het is een algemeen gedragen beeld. Helaas. ftm.nl/artikelen/geen…

New paper: autistic ppl found stimming to be positive when not self-injurious nor stigmatized (latter led to masking). Most felt stimming helped their friendships w/ & connections to other autistics, in part through inferring others’ emotions from stimming journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/27…

After 3 years, a new blog post: 'What I Learned When I Couldn't Rewrite My Papers' – a brief tale of researching my own identity through screens and mirrors. tdbianco.netlify.app/post/what-i-le…

Politie-echtpaar, allebei Long Covid: "Ik heb me 40 jaar ingezet voor de baas. Ik hoef er niet rijk van te worden, maar ook niet arm" "Wij hebben hier ook niet om gevraagd. Tegen de politieorganisatie zou ik willen zeggen: sta voor mensen en geef ze geen trap na" In het AD van

"[...] when he saw me cry and demand to know what treatment I was going to get, if any, he stormed out in a huff, and I was told shortly afterward by the team manager that my diagnosis had been changed from bipolar disorder to EUPD; a diseased ego."

New study: autistic and non-autistic adults in North America were more likely to use and prefer identity-first terms than person-first terms. Many were critical of functioning labels. liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au…