Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

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Post published on Bluesky on 21 Jan 2026 11:33

While building objects, right-handed autistic vs non-autistic adults show "profound group differences in hand use and visuomotor control"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... autistics "showed reduced right-hand preference, moved more slowly, and demonstrated more variability in their movements"

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Emily Fewster, Bat‐Sheva Hadad, Erez Freud (2026). Reduced Hand Specialization and Idiosyncratic Visuomotor Strategies in Autism During Naturalistic Object Manipulation. Autism Research, 19(3), e70180. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 20 Jan 2026 12:24

In an autism oxytocin RCT, what happened during the placebo lead-in?--results "provide evidence of the importance of placebo controlled randomised designs..." acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "providing an inert treatment can still result in substantial clinical improvement over time"

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Kelsie A. Boulton, Rinku Thapa, Yun Ju Song, Andrew J.O. Whitehouse, Marilena M. DeMayo, Simon G. Gregory, Izabella Pokorski, Joanna Granich, et al. (2026). Evaluating placebo responses to intranasal oxytocin in autism: findings from the placebo lead‐in phase of a randomised controlled trial. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 67(7), 1085-1094. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 19 Jan 2026 11:07

"autistic and non-autistic adults produce different angry, happy, and sad facial expressions" "autistic and non-autistic faces may be essentially 'speaking a different language' when it comes to conveying emotion" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... based on posed (not spontaneous) expressions

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Connor T. Keating, Sophie Sowden‐Carvalho, Holly O′Donoghue, Jennifer L. Cook (2026). Mismatching Expressions: Spatiotemporal and Kinematic Differences in Autistic and Non‐Autistic Facial Expressions. Autism Research, 19(2), e70157. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 18 Jan 2026 11:52

Among N=1694 Memorial University of Newfoundland students responding to a 2023 survey (N=1072 identified as female, 63%), 3% (N=50) reported being autistic, of whom 82% (N=41) identified as female www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 84% of autistics agreed that "I feel I belong at my university"

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Ken Fowler, Erin Walters (2026). Autistic students at an Atlantic Canadian University: Exploring prevalence, academic performance, mental health, social relationships, university belongingness and potential to flourish. Research in Autism, 131, 202809. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 17 Jan 2026 12:49

In communication with non-autistics, autistics "are constantly on high alert, overthinking how their words might be misinterpreted" & "often try to read between the lines, which is tiring & can lead to speaking less or feeling less confident" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... mixed methods study

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Hannah De Laet, Annabel D. Nijhof, Jan R. Wiersema (2026). Adults with autism’s communication preferences with others with and without autism: A mixed-methods study. Research in Autism, 131, 202814. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 16 Jan 2026 12:48

"this study identified a 11.7% co-occurrence of selective mutism and autism" "delayed autism diagnoses observed in older age groups suggest that selective mutism may initially mask autistic traits, leading to under-recognition and diagnostic overshadowing" link.springer.com/article/10.1... free

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Ina Helgesen, Anders Nordahl-Hansen (2026). Breaking with the Criteria; Selective Mutism and its Forbidden Connection with Autism. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology, 54(1), 4. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 15 Jan 2026 12:20

"Clinical intuitions have long suggested that statistical learning deficits might explain some of the challenges and characteristics of autism"?--but "the behavioral data are generally inconsistent with this hypothesis" link.springer.com/article/10.1... systematic review including 37 studies 2007-25

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Rebecca R. Bell, Hannah R. Thomas, Jenny R. Saffran, Inge-Marie Eigsti (2025). A systematic review of statistical learning in autism spectrum disorder. Molecular Autism, 17(1), 2-2. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 14 Jan 2026 12:04

"Currently, there are no measures of neurodiversity knowledge or attitudes with high-quality evidence showing sufficient validity, reliability, and responsiveness to warrant a recommendation that they be used in research" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... systematic review, autism-relevant

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Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Ruoxi Guo, Jessica Hinson-Williams, Yueyang Shen, Caroline Braun (2026). Systematic COSMIN Review of Neurodiversity Attitudes and Knowledge Measures. Autism in Adulthood, 25739581251414516. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 13 Jan 2026 11:54

For decades, promoters of facilitated communication, rapid prompting, etc, chose not to fairly test their benefits vs harms to autistics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... and in 2026 this still has not changed--commentary authors reject RCTs, ignore autistics harmed by these hyped methods, etc

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Vikram K. Jaswal, Barry M. Prizant, Morgan D. Barense, Kristie Patten, Gary Stobbe (2026). Why We Need to Study Assisted Methods to Teach Typing to Nonspeaking Autistic People. Autism Research, 19(5), e70176. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 12 Jan 2026 10:41

Reflexivity & positionality in ABA?--behavior analysts "challenge and encourage our field to utilize qualitative reflexivity and positionality in the research process"?--which means elaborate lengthy positionality statements while COIs are ignored? link.springer.com/article/10.1... autism-relevant

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Maria Paula Mello, Samantha E. Goldman (2026). Leveraging Qualitative Reflexivity in Behavior Analysis. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 19(2), 542-555. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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