Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

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Post published on Bluesky on 2 May 2025 11:45

The real-world experiences of prosopagnosic adults, autism-relevant, free journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... "41% of participants reported that they were unable to reliably recognise their three closest friends out of context, and around 35% reported being unable to recognise immediate family"

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Judith Lowes, Lesley M. McGregor, Peter J.B. Hancock, Bradley Duchaine, Anna K. Bobak (2025). This condition impacts every aspect of my life: A survey to understand the experience of living with developmental prosopagnosia. PLOS ONE, 20(4), e0322469. Public Library of Science (PLoS).

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Post published on Bluesky on 1 May 2025 11:19

For decades, autism interventions have been advocated for, promoted as effective, & implemented before or without fair tests of their benefits vs harms to autistics--this has not helped autistics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... but this is now demanded as "neurodiversity affirmative"?

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1 May 2025 11:38

Note: unfounded claims that fair tests of the benefits vs harms of interventions are bad for autistics, are too difficult to do, are too much trouble, cause dangerous delays, etc--claims promoted by this "neurodiversity affirmative" letter--underly every harmful intervention imposed on autistics

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Schea Fissel Brannick (2025). Risky business: How assumptions about evidence can exclude autistic voices. Autism, 29(10), 2632-2634. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 30 Apr 2025 11:31

After decades of harming autistics, behavior analysts still don't know what ABA functional analyses mean link.springer.com/article/10.1... "rates of target behavior were higher during programmed-establishing-operation-absent periods than during programmed establishing-operation-present periods" etc

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Isaac J. Melanson, Tara A. Fahmie, Kendall M. Kastner (2025). The Potential Evocative Effect of Leisure Item Omission in the Attention and Escape Conditions of a Functional Analysis. Behavior Analysis in Practice. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 29 Apr 2025 13:01

A scoping review of neurodiversity research?--"Qualitative methods were dominant" "research methods commonly included interviews, surveys, review of content in blogs/newspapers/social media, and ethnography" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "a review of study quality was not completed"

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Helen McLennan, Rachel Aberdein, Beth Saggers, Jenna Gillett-Swan (2025). Neurodiversity: A scoping review of empirical research. Neurodiversity, 3, 27546330251337874. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 28 Apr 2025 10:53

Late registered: aiming to "understand the experiences of neurodivergent healthcare professions students/trainees, based on a systematic review of existing qualitative and mixed methods studies" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... in which "neurodivergent" means "diagnosed and/or self-identified"

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Rachel Ison, Yonatan Ben-Zion, Scott Steen, Barbara Rishworth (2025). A Systematic Review of the Experiences of Neurodivergent Students in Healthcare Professions Training. CRD/PROSPERO. University of Hertfordshire.

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Post published on Bluesky on 27 Apr 2025 11:12

Non-autistics "changed their face-directed gaze by looking at the open-ended questioner’s face significantly less compared to their gaze during the easier-to-answer, yes/no question" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... but autistics "showed no such gaze difference across question type"?

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Ruth B. Grossman, Amelia Rees, Julia Mertens, Emily Zane (2025). Impact of conversational context on gaze patterns of autistic and non-autistic adolescents. Research in Autism, 125, 202606. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 26 Apr 2025 11:12

Autistics' early sensory experiences, focus group study, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "under-reporting pain... has potentially severe implications for the autistic child (e.g. serious illnesses remaining untreated), as well as for health and medical practitioners (e.g. misdiagnosis)"

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Katy L Unwin, Kelsey Philpott-Robinson, Josephine Barbaro, Patrick Dwyer, Nancy Sadka, Perrin Date, Alison E Lane (2025). ‘We’re quite good at thinking outside the box: Early autistic sensory experiences expressed by autistic adults and caregivers of autistic children. Autism, 29(8), 2084-2096. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 25 Apr 2025 12:49

"it is incumbent on all behavior analysts to be aware of prominent misinformation related to ABA"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... authors (COIs) alarmed about 1 minor paper, while totally ignoring the avalanche of misinformation from behavior analysts about the science & ethics of ABA in autism

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Cody Morris, Dana B. Morris, Biancé J. Ferrucci, Chloe A. Calkins, Sarah M. Sudhoff, Nicole M. Nenninger (2025). A Review of Behavior-Analytic Articles that Cite a Source of Misinformation about ABA. Behavior Analysis in Practice. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 24 Apr 2025 11:20

"Interestingly, negative first impressions towards autistic individuals appear to occur regardless of autism status, with both autistic and non-autistic rater participants rating autistic people less favorably than non-autistic people" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... systematic review, free

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Lashindri C. Wanigasekera, Murray T. Maybery, Romina Palermo, Andrew J. O. Whitehouse, Diana Weiting Tan (2025). First Impressions Towards Autistic People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis. Autism Research, 18(5), 983-1010. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 23 Apr 2025 11:18

Interviews with autistic adults about "experiencing poor mental health" & "seeking and obtaining help and support" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "most participants described using non-verbal communication--including signs/gestures, body language, and facial expressions--to signal distress"

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Adelaide Beckwith, Beatriz López (2025). Mental health in autistic adults: Key stages in the journey from experiencing psychological distress to recovery. Research in Autism, 124, 202584. Elsevier BV.

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