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 Nov 2025 10:34

No, "old age" in autism does not start at 50 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Given these distinctions between midlife and old age, autism researchers must move away from referring to all people over the age of 50 as ‘older adults’ and begin to label their samples more accurately"

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Gavin R Stewart (2026). Distinguishing midlife and old age: A recommendation for autism researchers. Autism, 30(3), 834-836. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 11 Nov 2025 11:50

"preliminary evidence" that "ABA therapy may be associated with increased odds of mental health hospitalizations and more frequent hospital stays among autistic youth" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "future inquiry into the safety of ABA and who may or may not be harmed by it is essential..."

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Nahime G Aguirre Mtanous, Jamie Koenig, Melica Nikahd, Sarah E Effertz, Sal Silinonte, J Madison Hyer, Brittany N Hand, Lauren Bishop (2026). Mental health outcomes associated with applied behavior analysis in a US national sample of privately insured autistic youth. Autism, 30(2), 484-494. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Nov 2025 10:54

Registered: systematic review aiming "to synthesize the existing qualitative research on the lived experience of transgender autistic people" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... including "mental health, experiences and responses to discrimination, identity development, masking/identity concealment"

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Mark Somerville, Sue Fletcher-Watson, Sarah MacPherson, Elinor Taylor (2025). Exploring the lived experience of transgender autistic people – A systematic review and thematic meta-synthesis. CRD/PROSPERO. University of Edinburgh.

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Post published on Bluesky on 9 Nov 2025 11:15

BCBAs endorsing "pseudo-ABA" terminology? "Failing to detect nuanced differences in technical language may lead practitioners to endorse interventions that sound behaviorally appropriate but do not adhere to established principles of ABA"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... autism-relevant?

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Jennifer L. Posey, Fina M. Robertson, Emma I. Moon, Craig A. Marrer, Mark R. Dixon (2025). Over and undergeneralization of behavior analytic terminology and their influence on the trouble with terms. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 38, 100958. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 8 Nov 2025 11:22

"studies have found little evidence for uniformly increased sensory precision in autism, but instead point to aberrant context-sensitive modulation of prediction errors"? which explains "why autism is associated with both hyper- & hyporeactivity to sensory input"? www.cell.com/trends/cogni... review

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Corina U. Greven, MacKenzie D. Trupp, Judith R. Homberg, Heleen A. Slagter (2026). Sensory processing sensitivity: theory, evidence, and directions. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 30(6), 530-545. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 7 Nov 2025 12:08

"Our findings point to previously unknown strengths in autistic children who are minimally speaking across statistical learning and social attention, suggesting that spoken language differences in this population might be unrelated to these domains" www.nature.com/articles/s41... free

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Eleonora Paolizzi, Gioia Cavalli, Nancy Raitano Lee, Giacomo Vivanti (2025). Visual statistical learning and social attention in neurotypical, minimally speaking and speaking autistic preschoolers. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 38952-38952. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 6 Nov 2025 11:54

In autistics aged 8-21 years, "older age was associated with more challenges in adaptive functioning"? acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... autistics "may not develop adaptive functioning skills at the same rate as their non-autistic peers, resulting in an increasing discrepancy with age"?

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Johan Isaksson, Filippa Eklund, Karl Lundin Remnélius, Melissa H. Black, Sven Bölte (2026). Neurodevelopmental conditions and adaptive functioning – a co‐twin control study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 67(5), 777-787. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 5 Nov 2025 12:10

"The prevalence of autistic people in generic inpatient settings is much higher than estimates for autistic people in the general population. High levels of heterogeneity mean we cannot be exact, but we estimate the prevalence rate to be between 6 and 16%" link.springer.com/article/10.1... free

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Philippa Tivey, Holly FitzHerbert, Chris Jones, Andrew D. R. Surtees (2025). Prevalence of Autism in Psychiatric Inpatient Settings: a Meta-analysis. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 4 Nov 2025 12:12

"Burnout as experienced by autistic people is characterised by profound exhaustion, loss of functional abilities, and a chronic course marked by intermittent crises, with impacts on sensory, emotional, cognitive, and daily life functioning" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... systematic review

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Dorota Ali, Mackenzie Bougoure, Brodie Cooper, Alice M.G. Quinton, Diana Tan, Jack Brett, William Mandy, Murray Maybery, et al. (2025). Burnout as experienced by autistic people: A systematic review. Clinical Psychology Review, 122, 102669. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 3 Nov 2025 11:11

Registered: nonpharmacological interventions for young autistic children, systematic review update www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... aims to "Summarize the quality & risk of bias of autism early childhood intervention literature" "Track the reporting of adverse events, adverse effects & harms" etc

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Micheal Sandbank, Tiffany Woynaroski, Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Jacob Feldman, Shannon LaPoint (2025). Project AIM Update: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Studies of Nonpharmacological Interventions for Young Autistic Children. CRD/PROSPERO. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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