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 13 Jul 2025 11:24

"when primary care clinicians classified a child as having definite autism... they were 100% accurate, but only 57% accurate when they indicated a child definitely did not have autism"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... diagnostic impressions of toddlers referred for developmental concerns

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Andrea Trubanova Wieckowski, Ashley de Marchena, Alexia F Dickerson, Erika Frick, Georgina Perez Liz, Ashley Dubin, Diana L Robins (2025). Autism diagnostic impressions in young children formed by primary care clinicians and through telemedicine expert assessments. Autism, 29(11), 2898-2905. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 12 Jul 2025 12:20

Behavior analysts require autistic & other children to work for "30s of access to social interactions with a novel adult or a leisure item" but "the work requirement doubled on each successive trial (i.e., 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and so on)"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... this is NIH-funded?

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Samuel L. Morris, Nathan A. Call, Joanna Lomas Mevers, Pierce M. Taylor (2025). A behavioral economic measure of sensitivity to social rewards in children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism, 127, 202663. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 11 Jul 2025 13:28

Neurodiversity-affirming means "interventions that support autonomy, self-determination & wellbeing...remediate areas that cause discomfort, distress or risk to the autistic person or their family...do not try to change nonharmful autistic traits..."? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free review

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Zoe Wagland, Julia Sterman, Louise Scott-Cole, Natasha Spassiani, Janet Njelesani (2025). Promoting Neurodiversity-Affirming Care for Autistic Children: A Scoping Review. Neurodiversity, 3, 27546330251357479. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Jul 2025 12:01

Authors create 4 classes of autism?--"Social/behavioral" (37%), "Mixed ASD with DD" (19%), "Moderate challenges" (34%), "Broadly affected" (10%)? www.nature.com/articles/s41... based on SCQ, CBCL, & RBS-R scores & developmental milestones, in N=5392 autistics aged 4-18 years, free

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Aviya Litman, Natalie Sauerwald, LeeAnne Green Snyder, Jennifer Foss-Feig, Christopher Y. Park, Yun Hao, Ilan Dinstein, Chandra L. Theesfeld, et al. (2025). Decomposition of phenotypic heterogeneity in autism reveals underlying genetic programs. Nature Genetics, 57(7), 1611-1619. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 9 Jul 2025 11:37

"... challenges associated with cross-neurotype communication... would suggest that Autistic parents might feel a deeper and easier connection with their Autistic child, than their non-Autistic peers. This study, however, challenges such an assumption"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free

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Melanie Heyworth, Catherine McMahon, Diana Weiting Tan, Elizabeth Pellicano (2025). “There is Nowhere Else That I’d Rather be Than with Them”: Parents’ Positive Experiences Parenting Autistic Children. Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 10, 23969415251357222. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 8 Jul 2025 13:04

In data from "youth involved in child welfare, indicating that they had experienced at least one reported case of maltreatment"--prevalence of substance use disorders is lower in autistics (1.7%) vs non-autistics (3.8%)? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "Contrary to our initial hypothesis"

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Jeanette M. Garcia, Kristy A. Anderson, John R. Moore, Tanya Renn, Jessica E. Rast (2025). Prevalence of Substance Use Disorder Among Autistic Youth With and Without Co‐Occurring Mental Health Conditions and a History of Trauma. Autism Research, 18(8), 1704-1713. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 7 Jul 2025 10:50

Registered: aiming to "explore the underlying mechanisms that lead to effective health check outcomes for people with an intellectual disability and/or autistic people" & to "understand the context of the health checks..."? www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... annual health checks "realist" review

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Barry Ingham, Geoff Wong, Laurence Taggart, Jeremy Parr, Sam Brice, Angela Hassiotis, Sheila Wallace, Jessica Lister, et al. (2025). A realist review of the acceptability and implementation of annual health checks for people with a learning disability and for autistic people.. CRD/PROSPERO. Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.

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Post published on Bluesky on 6 Jul 2025 11:41

Most "sensory" research in autism uses questionnaire measures with multiple shortcomings--"limiting our understanding of autistic sensory processing" (e.g. "We may not even know how many autistic people experience sensory processing differences") journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... editorial, free

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Catherine Manning, Georgina Mohan, Lara Maher, Aamina Khan, Samantha L Tyler (2025). Our understanding of autistic sensory processing is limited by our questionnaire measures. Autism, 29(8), 1915-1920. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 5 Jul 2025 11:46

An autistic (age 15) is harmed by years of ABA interventions, with terrible outcomes for him--so behavior analysts strap him to a restraint chair (lap, shoulder, arm straps) & punish him with "an edible bitter solution" applied to his lower lip? link.springer.com/article/10.1... this is ABA in 2025

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Alison D. Cox, Angeline Savard, Thurka Thillainathan, Asude Ayvaci, Meghan Dunnet (2025). A Clinical Demonstration of Individualized Restraint Fading. Behavior Analysis in Practice. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 4 Jul 2025 12:21

"psychosocial impacts" of autism genetic testing, review, free www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Most studies lacked participant diversity, were not longitudinal, & did not address the impact of receiving genetic testing results on autistic people, indicating significant gaps in the literature"

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Ben Curran Wills, Margaret M. Matthews, Josephine Johnston, Isabel Bolo, Ruth Ottman, Paul S. Appelbaum (2026). Systematic Review: The Psychosocial Impacts of Autism-Related Genetic Testing. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 65(4), 505-526. Elsevier BV.

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