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.

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Post published on Bluesky on 12 Dec 2025 10:39

In the general population, pragmatic language use has 3 distinct components?--"an ability to understand social conventions, an ability to extract meaning from intonation, and an ability to make causal inferences based on world knowledge" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... autism-relevant

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Sammy Floyd, Olessia Jouravlev, Moshe Poliak, Zachary Mineroff, Edward Gibson, Evelina Fedorenko (2025). Three distinct components of pragmatic language use: Social conventions, intonation, and world knowledge–based causal reasoning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(50), e2424400122. National Academy of Sciences.

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Post published on Bluesky on 11 Dec 2025 12:32

"Interventions for aggression in school-aged autistic children should consider aggression towards others, SIB, and social skills as separate targets, as changes in one domain did not appear to be related to changes in other domains"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... based on parent-report

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Hannah M. Rea, Anika A. Lindley, Waylon Howard, Emily Neuhaus, Susan Faja, Raphael Bernier, Katarzyna Chawarska, Geraldine Dawson, et al. (2026). A longitudinal investigation of aggression and social skills in autistic youth. Research in Autism, 130, 202767. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Dec 2025 11:33

Report from HEARD ("Healthy Engagement in Autism Research Dialogue") about autism genetics www.cell.com/trends/genet... HEARD's aims: "allowing productive disagreement, critical examination of one’s perspectives, and improving our collective capacity for holding conflicting perspectives in mind"?

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Benjamin E. Life, Taylor R. Thomas, Rachel Asher, Zandre Bruwer, Karen Leneh Buckle, Dorothy Chepkirui, Kirsten A. Donald, Patrick Dwyer, et al. (2026). Autism genetics: perspectives, discourse, and community engagement. Trends in Genetics, 42(4), 300-304. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 9 Dec 2025 12:13

Factors associated with types of self-injury in autistics aged 3-19?--"The main finding was that distress associated with disruptions to routines was the strongest predictor of all types of self-injurious behavior"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... note: everything here is parent-reported

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Emily F Ferguson, Emily Spackman, Antonio Y Hardan, Mirko Uljarević (2026). Self-injurious behaviors with increased likelihood of injury in autistic youth: The role of distress linked to a strong preference for sameness. Autism, 30(6), 1620-1631. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 8 Dec 2025 10:35

Registered: "How do autistic people describe their experiences of meltdowns, shutdowns, and burnout?" "What similarities and differences do autistic people describe about the experience of meltdowns, shutdowns and burnout?" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... qualitative systematic review

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Jasmine Wells, Danielle Shore (2025). The Experience of Meltdowns, Shutdowns and Burnout in Autistic People: A Qualitative Systemic Review. CRD/PROSPERO. Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research, University of Oxford.

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Post published on Bluesky on 7 Dec 2025 11:14

Self-compassion in autism? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... autistics experience "stigma and victimization... much more than non-autistic people" ergo "relational factors may play a more significant role than individual-specific factors such as cognitive-affective attitude toward oneself"

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Ru Ying Cai, David M. Dueber, Michael D. Toland, Vicki Gibbs, Chris Edwards, Abigail M. A. Love (2026). Understanding Self‐Compassion in Autistic Adults: Validity Evidence and Its Links to Loneliness and Depression Across Autistic and Non‐Autistic Individuals. Autism Research, 19(2), e70150. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 6 Dec 2025 12:02

Mixed methods in ABA? "Adding qualitative approaches to a single-case experimental design may further individualize the numerical data by offering a richer understanding of the personal experiences of people who receive ABA services and supports"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... autism-relevant

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Priscilla V. Burnham Riosa (2026). A Coherent Investigation or a “Dog’s Breakfast”? Exploring the Integration of Qualitative Inquiry and Behavior Analysis Through Mixed Methods Research. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 19(2), 425-435. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 5 Dec 2025 11:45

Driver's license status vs travel patterns in autistics? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Regardless of licensure status, most autistic young adults reported not traveling everywhere they wanted to go; nearly 80% appear to be interested in a transportation modality they did not currently use"

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Emma B Sartin, Lauren O’Malley, Alexis Z Tomlinson, Laura Bennett, Rachel K Myers, Kristina B Metzger, Haley J Bishop, Benjamin E Yerys, et al. (2026). Autistic young adults’ routine travel pre- and post-license. Autism, 30(5), 1360-1367. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 4 Dec 2025 12:00

"a small elephant or an elephant missing a leg is not less of an elephant than a large, healthy elephant, and a rhinoceros is not a horned fraction of elephant-ness. Autistic-ness is not a continuous variable" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... argument against autism as dimension & spectrum, free

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Laurent Mottron, Olivier Lafrance McGuire, David Gagnon (2025). Autism-ness Does Not Exist, but Autism Does. Part 1: A Critic of the “Spectrum” Position Used to Describe, Diagnose, and Research Autism, and Its Alternative. Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 10, 23969415251404764. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 3 Dec 2025 13:01

"profound autism" now means "IQ or DQ ≤50, minimal verbal skills, and adaptive functioning ≤70"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... 25.9% (N=121/468) of autistics under age 8 "were classified as ‘at risk of profound autism’"?--vs only 2.2% (N=1/45) age 8-16 who "met criteria for profound autism"?

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M. A. Hodge, K. A. Boulton, R. Sutherland, S. Baracz, N. Ong, B. Bennett, G. Brooks, A. J. Guastella, et al. (2025). Clinical Features of Children at Risk of Profound Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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