journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… Important paper about autistic people and the menopause. Very good to see this work. So little is known about this topic, and yet there are hundreds of thousands in need of its findings.

Great editorial from Damian Milton & Green on the production of knowledge… with added shout-out to neologistic thinkers who come up with new words to do the heavy lifting.

doi.org/10.1177/136236…
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Dear occasional teachers or care workers who take noise cancelling tech off autistic children '...because in real life, you'll have to cope with noise'.
No.
We don't have to.
I know this is wild, but...we can still use our headphones etc...everywhere else also.
Get a grip.

ASAN welcomes the FDA’s proposed ban on electric skin shock devices for behavior modification. Once the public comment period opens tomorrow, we need everyone to submit commits telling the FDA to #StopTheShock !
fda.gov/medical-device…

📣 Our survey results on views of autistic people regarding ABA in Europe have just been released!
It shows 78% of the participants were against or strongly against ABA, with only 4.2% in favour or strongly in favour.
See more about it here: eucap.eu/projects/aba/
#Autistic

Please share this recruitment call for a brilliant neurodivergent high school student's honors thesis.

In autistic vs typical children, 'no discernible difference in the extent of social attention... when they are interacting with an adult partner during recreational tasks'--calling into question social motivation/development theories psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-54… from Mikhail Kissine

New study from the Project AIM team, examining selective and inadequate reporting practices in early childhood autism intervention research, led by the brilliant Micheal Sandbank. 1/3 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Finding multiple reporting biases pervading the early autism intervention literature, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… in autism research, 'compounded reporting failure can ultimately lead to the designation of practices which are ineffective or even harmful as being evidence-based'

Can ABA Therapy Affirm Neurodiversity, as a recent paper suggests? The answer is no, writes Max Sparrow Maxfield Sparrow—as ABA therapy cannot affirm neurodiversity without becoming something that is …not ABA therapy. At TPGA:

thinkingautismguide.com/2024/02/can-ab… #neurodiversity

Here’s an ARFID / sensory hot take for you 🔥🔥🔥
Autistic children will try new foods when they feel safe enough to - That’s sensory AND emotional safety. Anxiety and sensory all wrapped up in a complex bundle of human feels 🥰

...using Therapist Neurodiversity Collective's excellent 'Performative Neurodiversity – the appropriation and watering down of a Human Rights Movement for profit' 2/2
therapistndc.org/performative-n…

How many hundreds of thousands of autistic children have been forced to do this stuff, based on no evidence?
What happened to them?
Where are they now?

Why do we keep doing this?
I sense that questionnaire is why. It's about prejudice and making us pay 100% of the price of that

And then, autistic children are forced to stop learning in their own natural & authentic ways, & made to play in ways to please other people.
No-one asks them if this is adding quality of life.
No-one checks for adverse effects.
They are irrelevant, as long as they 'look normal'.

We are thrilled that SB483 has passed through the California Senate! #ShineOnMax

📊 Poll Question 📊

Do you believe that physiotherapists have enough medical knowledge and are qualified to assess the potential danger of restraint holds and their potential to cause death, serious physical, or psychological injury to children? #Physiotherapists #RestraintHolds

‘Go play with your friends’

Most kids: Okay!

Autistic me as a kid: These are my classmates not my friends. Plus, I’m so exhausted. Please may I spend some time alone?

When you can’t show what you know, people assume you just don’t know anything. #nonspeaking doesnotequalnonthinking #nonspeaking #Autism #autistic #ActuallyAutistic

We have a great opportunity to share #ActuallyAutistic perspectives on autism research! The IACC is looking for public comments on research about conditions that commonly co-occur with autism. Learn more: autisticadvocacy.org/2024/01/share-…