Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

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Post published on Bluesky on 12 Jul 2026 10:52

Dear Autism in Adulthood: you're the most paywalled (inaccessible) autism journal. You finally post an open access paper. Many hours later you make it disappear, without any explanation. It has not come back. The paper's DOI exists but you have erased the paper. This is neurodiversity affirmative?

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12 Jul 2026 10:59

Note: very sorry to everyone for having posted that paper here (that post is now deleted), last time I will post anything from that journal

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Jul 2026 12:31

Autistic & non-autistic aphantasics describe their experiences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... quote from an autistic: "I have a very good sense of direction, and when I imagine scenes in my mind, I mainly focus on where everything is relative to everything else, but not what it looks like"

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Sheng Zhong, Katherine Jones, Kathryn F. Knight, Fraser Milton, Ginny Russell, Adam Zeman, Francesca Happé (2026). Exploring the experiences of autistic and non-autistic aphantasics: A qualitative study. Neuropsychologia, 231, 109540. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 9 Jul 2026 12:02

Autistic (vs Williams syndrome & Down syndrome) 5-25 year-olds "use significantly more self-defeating humor"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Self-defeating humor... involves self-disparaging humor, that is, trying to integrate or gain approval by letting others mock and ridicule oneself"

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Noémie Treichel, Ana Milosavljevic, Verena Hofmann, Jo Van Herwegen, Andrea C. Samson (2026). Humor Styles in Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Their Links to Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Strengths and Difficulties. Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 11, 23969415261464457. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 8 Jul 2026 11:32

"from the selection of experiments in this meta-analysis, it appears that the fMRI evidence for generally altered predictions/prediction errors in autism is inconsistent" "this picture could be indicative of a... need to develop more specific hypotheses"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

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Hjalmar Nobel Norrman, Yating Huang, Annelies van’t Westeinde, Tessa M. van Leeuwen, Peter Fransson, Sven Bölte, Janina Neufeld (2026). Prediction and Prediction Error in Autism: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Results. Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 6(5), 100760. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 7 Jul 2026 12:27

Autistics on early autism interventions, review, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... autistics "recalled mindless, repetitive, extensive training that was not enjoyable & felt like a punishment" "mentioned how the experience of being trained to comply negatively affected their life later" etc

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Elizaveta Nosova, Alexandra Sturrock, Neil Humphrey, Kathy Leadbitter (2026). The Views of Autistic Adults on Early Autism Interventions: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Literature Review. Autism, 13623613261460931. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 6 Jul 2026 10:57

Registered: "masking behaviors in autistic children and adolescents, the age that masking behaviors have been shown to begin, and how masking presents in high masking autistic youth"? www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review, age range 15 or younger, "formally diagnosed or self-identify"

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Gabrielle Jays, Nicole Dargue, Stephanie Malone (2026). Identifying Masking Behaviours in Autistic Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review. CRD/PROSPERO. Griffith University.

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Post published on Bluesky on 5 Jul 2026 11:53

Across 6 countries, "substantial cross-national variation in how authority, participation, and implementation are structured within national autism guidance systems"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... "differences reflect governance choices about expertise, legitimacy, and accountability..."?

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Caleb P. Hwang, Roald A. Øien, Fred R. Volkmar (2026). Who Shapes National Autism Guidance? A Cross-National Comparison of Autism Guideline Development, Representation, and Implementation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 4 Jul 2026 11:18

Autistics on how they relate to autistics, online survey, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Not all autistic individuals felt inherently compatible with other autistic people" "This study appears to be the first to highlight the presence of conflict within autistic–autistic relationships"

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Hannah Minnell, Hannah Waddington, Phoebe Jordan, Beth Noble, Chris J. Bowden (2026). “I Accept Them, They Accept Me, We Enjoy Our Time Together”: Autistic Adults’ Preferences and Perceptions of Relationships With Other Autistic People. Autism, 13623613261451898. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 3 Jul 2026 11:27

Caregiver-reported "wandering" in N=258 autistics, up to age 16? "45% never wandered, 41% wandered only in early childhood, and 14% wandered at least once in adolescence..."? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Public places were the most common locations from which adolescents wandered"?

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Lisa D. Wiggins, Carolyn DiGuiseppi, Katherine Overwyk, Patrick Powell, Angela Thompson-Paul, Eric Moody, Cy Nadler, Nuri Reyes, et al. (2026). Longitudinal Examination of Wandering in Children and Adolescents With Autism. Autism, 13623613261459642. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 2 Jul 2026 12:17

A new "consensus" definition of "profound autism"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... 96% of participants (chosen as "experts," only 2 are autistic?) agreed that "profound autism" can be identified at age 8 and is "a life-long condition" (once "profound autism" at age 8, always "profound autism")?

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Matthew Siegel, Catherine L. Lord, Helen Tager-Flusberg, Judith Ursitti, Alycia Halladay, Alison T. Singer (2026). Developing a consensus research definition for profound autism using a modified Delphi method. Molecular Autism, 17(1), 28. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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