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 2 Sep 2025 13:06

Behavior analysts prefer answers to ABA questions from an AI chatbot, vs from a team of human "expert clinician" BCBAs?--e.g., on the question "is it ethical to target stereotypy for reduction," over 90% preferred the AI answer (see Fig 1) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... autism-relevant

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Sara Peck, Conor O'Brien, Jason Bourret, Darryl Agostinelli (2025). ChatGPT versus clinician responses to questions in ABA: Preference, identification, and level of agreement. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 58(4), 731-743. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 1 Sep 2025 10:41

Registered: "the experiences of autistic people who self-harm & the factors that lead to this" "the experiences of autistic people accessing support for self-harm/suicidality (including crisis support) & the barriers they face to seeking help" etc www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

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Catherine Turvey, Fiona McFarlane (2025). What do we know about the experience of self-harm and suicidality in autism, and what are the specific risk factors in this population? A mixed-methods systematic review. CRD/PROSPERO. University of Oxford.

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Post published on Bluesky on 31 Aug 2025 11:25

How to define autism?--editorial, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "We are at a critical point of the nosological evolution of autism where the diagnostic concept and operationalization can be jointly shaped by autistic and non-autistic clinicians, scientists, and interest-holders"?

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Mishel Alexandrovsky, Margot Frayne, Meng-Chuan Lai (2025). What is autism? Identity in jeopardy and the collaborative way ahead. Autism, 29(10), 2371-2378. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 30 Aug 2025 12:00

In autistic, non-autistic & mixed pairs, autistics "generally reported lower rapport"? journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... "the effect of participants’ diagnostic status on the overall level of rapport did not significantly depend on whether their interaction partner shared the same diagnostic status"

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Themis Nikolas Efthimiou, Stephanie Lewis, Sarah J. Foster, Charlotte E. H. Wilks, Michelle Dodd, Lorena Jiménez-Sánchez, Danielle Ropar, Robert A. Ackerman, et al. (2025). Diagnostic status influences rapport and communicative behaviours in dyadic interactions between autistic and non-autistic people. PLOS One, 20(8), e0330222. Public Library of Science (PLoS).

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Post published on Bluesky on 29 Aug 2025 11:54

CAIM ("complementary, alternative and integrative medicine") for autistics?--umbrella review, free www.nature.com/articles/s41... "In addition to the generally... low levels of evidence supporting most CAIMs, a critical finding was that safety assessments were missing for most interventions..."

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Corentin J. Gosling, Laure Boisseleau, Marco Solmi, Micheal Sandbank, Lucie Jurek, Mikail Nourredine, Gabriella Porcu, Elisa Murgia, et al. (2025). Complementary, alternative and integrative medicine for autism: an umbrella review and online platform. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(12), 2610-2619. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 28 Aug 2025 12:44

Autistic adults on their strengths journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "61% of participants reported strengths in Cognitive & Executive Functioning... The high level of endorsement is notable, considering that many autistic individuals also exhibit and report challenges with executive functioning"

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Linnea A Lampinen, Joseph Singer, Xinyue Wang, Benjamin VanHook, Ellen Wilkinson, Vanessa H Bal (2026). Self-reported strengths and talents of autistic adults. Autism, 30(1), 37-48. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 27 Aug 2025 11:56

Behavior analysts teach autistic children (N=4, age 6-10) "to reduce perseverative speech in conversational exchanges" (i.e. to stop talking about their interests)--"to ensure individuals with ASD continue to have positive social interactions"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... this is ABA in 2025

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Carole A. Deitchman, Sharon A. Reeve, Ruth M. DeBar, April N. Kisamore, Linda A. Meyer (2025). Using Video Training with Contingency-Specifying Rules to Teach Conversation Cues. Education and Treatment of Children, 48(4), 397-413. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 26 Aug 2025 11:21

Autistic SPACE "is gaining momentum in the educational landscape" & "has been widely adopted in medical and psychiatric settings and in medical professional development programs..." (etc) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... but still no tests (or any planned?) of its benefits vs harms to autistics

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Elaine McGoldrick, Aoife Munroe, Rachel Ferguson, Carina Byrne, Mary Doherty (2025). Autistic SPACE for Inclusive Education. Neurodiversity, 3, 27546330251370655. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 25 Aug 2025 10:39

Registered: autistic burnout--"conceptualisation and definition" & "risk/protective factors" & "trajectory" & "differentiation from other conditions and consequences of misdiagnosis" & "autistic burnout/fatigue in children and young people" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

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Emma Stacey, Manuela Martinez-Barona Soyer, Amy Crawford (2025). Autistic burnout: A Systematic Review with Narrative Synthesis. CRD/PROSPERO. University of Bath.

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Post published on Bluesky on 24 Aug 2025 10:50

Finding "poor agreement between self-and caregiver-proxy-reported QoL in school-aged autistic children" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "higher caregiver-proxy-reports of a child's QoL related to less prominent autism features" but "self-reported QoL did not relate to autism... features"

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Emily C. Skaletski, Rebekah M. Rodriguez, Sharon G. Gartland, Karla K. Ausderau, Lauren Bishop, James J. Li, Brittany G. Travers (2025). Quality of Life in Autistic Children: Discrepancies Between Self‐ and Caregiver‐Proxy Reports and Associations With Individual Characteristics. Autism Research, 18(10), 2063-2075. Wiley.

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