Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

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Post published on Bluesky on 12 Mar 2026 10:52

ABA preference assessments do not help autistics, again link.springer.com/article/10.1... e.g. one autistic "engaged in incompatible behaviors (i.e., loud vocalizations, falling to floor, walking to door)" & one autistic's preferences are dismissed as biased & "not presented in the graphs"

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Hugo Curiel, Courtney K. Tolfree, Merilan Reyes Barrera, Mallory Dines, Ivana Garcia, Sathyanarayana Ramesh, Hoping Raising (2026). Paired-Stimulus Preference Assessment for Videos. Behavior Analysis in Practice. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 11 Mar 2026 10:17

In autistics aged 2-6 years, PRT "regardless of intensity, was not significantly associated with improvements in any domain of child QoL (physical, emotional, social, or school) compared to treatment as usual" link.springer.com/article/10.1... note: PRT is an NDBI, which means it is ABA-based

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Rachel K. Schuck, Emily F. Ferguson, Emily K. Spackman, Ella Jevtic, M. Estefania Millan, Katherine Paszek, Hamidreza Komaki, Qianheng Ma, et al. (2026). Child Quality of Life as an Outcome Following Pivotal Response Treatment: Findings From Four Randomized Controlled Trials With Autistic Children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Mar 2026 11:27

Research note: Kanner's original N=11 autistics had extremely heterogeneous later outcomes, as generally did the autistics he reported on, as generally did diagnosed autistics in the literature before the "spectrum" became a thing (just a brief reminder, in case anyone's forgotten)

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Mar 2026 11:09

Combining autism & ADHD to make yet more new subgroups? link.springer.com/article/10.1... "ADHD with reduced social communication and RRBI symptoms" "ASD/ADHD with moderate social communication and RRBI symptoms" "ASD with moderate symptoms in all domains" "ASD with high symptoms in all domains"?

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Aneta D. Krakowski, Katherine Tombeau Cost, Marlee Vandewouw, Peter Szatmari, Evdokia Anagnostou, Jennifer Crosbie, Russell Schachar, Eric Duku, et al. (2026). Identifying Neurodevelopmental Domain Subgroups in Autism and ADHD. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 9 Mar 2026 10:11

Registered: "Developing and applying new autistic-led standards for social care environments: a participatory action research study of Ethical Quality Autistic Led Support" www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN12256307 "The project will make new tools to help care services provide better care for autistic people"

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Post published on Bluesky on 8 Mar 2026 10:37

"autistic youth had weaker grip strength and more difficulty with motor skills compared to non-autistic peers, with the gap in strength widening in adolescence and the gap in overall motor ability remaining the same or narrowing"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... data from age 6 to 18, free

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Allison R. Block, Emily C. Skaletski, Claire M. Sheedy, Ella A. Vanderpool, Brittany G. Travers (2026). Motor Performance in Autistic Youth From Childhood Through Adolescence: Evidence for Both Sustained and Widening Group Differences. Autism Research, 19(4), e70211. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 7 Mar 2026 12:00

Survey results "challenged traditional intrapersonal and pathologising accounts of autistic suicidality... conceptualising this instead in response to systemic injustices, requiring coordinated, preventative and multisector responses to make lives worth living" sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

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Rachel L. Moseley, Sarah J. Marsden, Mirabel Pelton, Elizabeth Weir, Tanya Procyshyn, Carrie L. Allison, Tracey A. Parsons, Sarah Cassidy, et al. (2026). “The best way we can stop suicides is by making lives worth living”: a mixed-methods survey in the UK of perspectives on suicide prevention from the autism community. eClinicalMedicine, 93, 103793. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 6 Mar 2026 11:34

Among autistic and/or ADHD and dyslexic adults, "preferences, offensiveness, acceptability, and self-use of six neurodiversity-related terms"?--UK & US survey, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "neurominority was the least preferred and considered the most offensive of all presented terms"

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Simon M. Bury, Patrick Dwyer, Rebecca L. Flower, Ellen K. Richardson, Jennifer R. Spoor (2026). Divergent, Minority or Spicy? Neurodiversity Language Preference for Autistic, ADHD, Dyslexic, and Autistic+ADHD People. Neurodiversity, 4, 27546330261430009. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 5 Mar 2026 12:01

Autistics (N=17) on ageing journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... e.g. an autistic aged 46 on Parkinson's: "I have traits in common with Parkinson’s already... But it also might be that they don’t really have Parkinson’s, it’s just what autistic people look like when they get old. I’d like to know"

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Rebecca Aitken, Katherine Berry, Emma Gowen, Laura JE Brown (2026). How do autistic adults experience ageing? A qualitative interview study. Autism, 30(4), 1047-1061. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 3 Mar 2026 12:15

On data sharing in autism, which may "exacerbate irresponsible or biased interpretation of data" leading to "promotion of interventions damaging to the autistic community" & "greater misunderstanding of autism" & "deterioration in the QoL of autistic people" journals.plos.org/digitalhealt... review

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Alexandra Lautarescu, Brett Trost, Azadeh Kushki, Bethany Oakley, Síofra Heraty, David Belton, Alison Boyle, Sarah Douglas, et al. (2026). Autism data sharing: Benefits, challenges, and recommendations. PLOS Digital Health, 5(3), e0001249. Public Library of Science (PLoS).

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