Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

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Post published on Bluesky on 2 Oct 2025 13:07

"different developmental trajectories" in earlier- vs later-diagnosed autism? ("as relative terms"--"there is no consensus on age thresholds for early versus late diagnosis") www.nature.com/articles/s41... based on autistics born in 1999-2003 & diagnosed at age 5-17 years (see Fig 1)?

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2 Oct 2025 13:10

Note: this paper's authors "focus on individuals who received their diagnosis in childhood or adolescence, because older adults may have missed an earlier diagnosis of autism owing to secular changes in societal attitudes towards autism"?

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Xinhe Zhang, Jakob Grove, Yuanjun Gu, Cornelia K. Buus, Lea K. Nielsen, Sharon A. S. Neufeld, Mahmoud Koko, Daniel S. Malawsky, et al. (2025). Polygenic and developmental profiles of autism differ by age at diagnosis. Nature, 646(8087), 1146-1155. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 1 Oct 2025 12:59

Autistics diagnosed with BPD on their experiences of inpatient mental health services, interviews, free link.springer.com/article/10.1... "The language used by the participants to describe their experiences of being inpatients led to a sense that they were not in a hospital but a prison"

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Katherine Woods, Rebecca Dunn, Ian Smith, Daniela Di Basilio (2025). “I Don’t Think Anyone’s Ever Asked Me About the Two Before”: Making Sense of Co-occurring Autism and BPD in Inpatient Mental Health Settings. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 30 Sep 2025 12:12

"Prototypical autism as an asymmetric developmental bifurcation of information processing"?--based on "the contrast between social bias and the possibility of doing without it, in the sense that, during childhood, autism follows a non-socially biased path..." www.nature.com/articles/s41... free

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Laurent Mottron, Alix Lavigne-Champagne, Boris Bernhardt, Guillaume Dumas, Sébastien Jacquemont, David Gagnon (2025). Asymmetric developmental bifurcations in polarized environments: a new class of human variants, which may include autism. Molecular Psychiatry, 30(12), 6155-6164. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 29 Sep 2025 10:37

Registered: "Is there a difference between gesture comprehension in autistic individuals compared to non-autistic individuals, and are there any variables that may moderate gesture comprehension in autistic individuals?" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

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Nicole Dargue, Naomi Sweller (2025). Understanding the Unspoken: A Systematic Review of Gesture Comprehension in Autism. CRD/PROSPERO. Griffith University.

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Post published on Bluesky on 28 Sep 2025 11:03

In school-aged children (N=37, age 5-12 years), "more negative first impressions of autistic compared to non-autistic children"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... "Children in this study rated the autistic children they viewed in brief video clips as more strange, mean, and less likeable..."?

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Natalia Van Esch, Troy Q. Boucher, Grace Iarocci, Nichole E. Scheerer (2025). First Impressions Matter: Exploring Children’s Negative Perceptions of Autistic Children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 27 Sep 2025 12:27

In autistics, "dissociation between objectively measured perceptual sensitivity and self-reported sensory experiences" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "sensory challenges in autism are unlikely to be explained solely by increased low-level sensory input or basic perceptual sensitivity"

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Caroline Candy, Declan Ryan, Elizabeth Milne, Abigail Dickinson (2025). Dissociation Between Subjective Sensory Reactivity and Visual Perceptual Sensitivity in Autistic and Non‐Autistic Adults: A Brief Report. Brain and Behavior, 15(9), e70865. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 26 Sep 2025 12:26

In autistics with vs without "regression," no differences on 4 outcomes--"composite social ability score, incidence of epilepsy, IQ at age five, and IQ in adulthood"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... note: "regression" included "definite & probable regression cases" (N=32/168 autistics; 19%)

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Satoru Minami, Mitsuaki Iwasa, Hiroko Ohzono, Daimei Sasayama, Hideo Honda (2025). Comparison of Adulthood Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder With and Without Regression: A Population‐Based Birth Cohort Study. Autism Research, 18(11), 2334-2344. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 25 Sep 2025 11:42

On a numerosity task, autistics (vs non-autistics) "had shorter non-decision times... they took less time to process the stimuli and/or generate their responses" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... but in the general population, "no correlation between autism-related traits and non-decision time"

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Hodo Yusuf, Nathan J Evans, Grant Taylor, Amber Cameron, Jemima Greenhalgh, Lou J Thomas, Gaia Scerif, Catherine Manning (2025). Perceptual Decision-Making in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults and Relationship with Autism- and ADHD-Related Traits. Neurodiversity, 3, 27546330251370662. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 24 Sep 2025 10:59

COI policies for medical journal editors & peer-reviewers, autism-relevant, free www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "journals rarely describe how disclosed interests are assessed, how they may influence the editorial process, and how journals enforce the consequences of policy violations"

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Christoffer Bruun Korfitsen, Helena Van Beersel Krejčíková, Camilla Hansen Nejstgaard, Isabelle Boutron, Lisa Bero, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, Andreas Lundh (2025). Conflict of interest policies for editors and peer reviewers in medical journals: cross-sectional study. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 188, 111980. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 23 Sep 2025 11:55

An aphantasia taxonomy?--autism-relevant, free www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "A striking paradox characterizes congenital aphantasia. These individuals consistently deny any subjective experience of visual images, yet they can accurately recall the visual properties of objects from memory"

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Paolo Bartolomeo (2025). Mapping the imageless mind: Towards a taxonomy of aphantasia. Neuropsychologia, 219, 109276. Elsevier BV.

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