Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

This page lists public posts integrated from @autismcrisis.bsky.social on Bluesky and archived posts from Twitter/X in one chronological feed. It supports reading, filtering and structured review of Michelle Dawson’s public posts used in the autism science watch project.

Twitter/X and Bluesky

14985 posts:

"Although greater autism... severity has been assumed to increase the risk of traumatic dental injuries, this association was not observed in this study" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... based on DSM-5-TR autism "severity" levels in N=441 autistics aged 3-15 years in Atlantic Canada, free

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Autistic (vs other developmentally disabled & general population) adolescents have lower daily living skills? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... note: based on caregiver-report, & "the study was unable to examine other contextual factors, such as the opportunity to learn or perform a skill..."

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Autism double empathy problem studies, critical review, free link.springer.com/article/10.1... "Most studies made measurements that did not directly measure cognitive or affective empathy" "Many studies had setups that were not conducive towards attaining cognitive or affective empathy..." etc

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In 12-30 year-olds, "symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)" do not differ for autistic vs typical groups, but are lower for the LAD ("loss of autism diagnosis") group? link.springer.com/article/10.1... "One important finding was the generally low rate of ODD symptoms across the 3 groups"

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New "profound autism" criteria--"(1) cannot care for basic daily needs, (2) does not use words to communicate, and (3) has a current diagnosis of intellectual disability (ID)"? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... among N=238 autistics aged 12-16, N=6 (2.5%) met all 3 of these "profound autism" criteria?

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The "Introspective Predictive Processing Inventory" for autistic adults? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with 2 factors, capturing "challenges in integrating sensory and social inputs with predictive models" & "need for environmental predictability and distress responses to unexpected changes"?

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Registered: aiming to "evaluate the extent to which existing early-in-life supports for infants and toddlers who are autistic or at elevated autism likelihood align with community perspectives as identified in prior research"? www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

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How autistics, parents of autistics, & professionals view language interventions for autism, survey acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "a minority of participants—from across the sample... did not see any potential risk of harm from participants taking part in language interventions"?

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Autism, education, & "the widespread use of noise-cancelling headphones" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "little empirical research" "limited research exploring the long-term use of noise-cancelling headphones... for autistic students" "a need for future studies with rigorous research designs"

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Autism & ageing, roundtable journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "think about mistreatment through medications which are wrong for you if you have been wrongly diagnosed... & you got different kinds of psychiatric medication, what does that mean for your body ageing & your mental cognitive ageing?"

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