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 22 Apr 2025 12:25

"results demonstrate clear evidence for susceptibility to illusions in the perception of size both in the autistic and non-autistic groups"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "the study provides clear evidence for autistic people forming priors and using long-term knowledge in perception"?

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Yarden Mazuz, Bat‐Sheva Hadad, Tzvi Ganel (2025). Intact Susceptibility to Visual Illusions in Autistic Individuals. Autism Research, 18(6), 1257-1268. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 21 Apr 2025 10:28

Registered: aiming "to synthesise existing qualitative research to provide a deeper understanding of the support and interventions that autistic adults perceive as improving their psychological well-being..." www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review & thematic synthesis

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Nicholas Garner, Melanie Hodgkinson (2025). Improving Psychological Well-being in Autistic Adults: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis.. CRD/PROSPERO. University of Southampton.

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Post published on Bluesky on 20 Apr 2025 10:54

"providing and receiving help do not always produce positive outcomes"--authors calling for "more research on how helping promotes negative perceptions of the self or others and when and how it perpetuates inequality and hampers learning" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... autism-relevant

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Jellie Sierksma, Kristin Shutts (2025). The Unintended Negative Consequences of Help in Childhood. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 34(4), 247-252. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 19 Apr 2025 11:34

In recent (2002-22) ABA single case studies targeting "problem behavior" in autistic & IDD adults, "it appears large effect sizes may be generally associated with multi-protocol treatments that featured a punishment element"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... dubious unregistered review, free

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Nazurah Khokhar, Alison D. Cox, Asude Ayvaci, Thurka Thillainathan, Sonia Stellato (2026). Research Patterns in the Treatment of Adults With Problem Behavior and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Quantitative Systematic Review. Behavior Modification, 50(1), 3-31. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 18 Apr 2025 13:01

"enhanced auditory perceptual learning" in autistic (vs typical) children? link.springer.com/article/10.3... autistics (N=48, age 7-12) showed "typical visual discrimination learning after progressive training and enhanced auditory discrimination learning after progressive training and exposure"

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Barbara A. Church, Jonathan D. Rodgers, Brooke N. Jackson, Matthew G. Wisniewski, Stacy Moppert, Christopher Lopata, Marcus L. Thomeer, Eduardo Mercado (2025). Perceptual discrimination learning in children with and without autism: The effect of feedback, modality, and progressive-learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32(5), 2175-2188. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 17 Apr 2025 11:37

Review "intended to summarize... research on non-social cognitive functions and both structural and functional brain changes in older autistic adults" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "the plurality of results... does not allow forming a clear cerebral and cognitive aging pattern in autism"

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Marine Bessé, Shasha Morel‐Kohlmeyer, Emmanuelle Houy‐Durand, Philippe Prévost, Laurie Tuller, Badiâa Bouazzaoui, Laurence Taconnat, Julia Capdeville, et al. (2025). Cognitive and Cerebral Aging Research in Autism: A Systematic Review on an Emerging Topic. Autism Research, 18(6), 1122-1145. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 16 Apr 2025 11:14

CONSORT update, autism-relevant journals.plos.org/plosmedicine... with "added item on financial and other COIs of manuscript authors" "added item on how harms and other unintended effects were assessed" "revised item to include reporting of important changes to the trial after it commenced..." etc

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Sally Hopewell, An-Wen Chan, Gary S. Collins, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, David Moher, Kenneth F. Schulz, Ruth Tunn, Rakesh Aggarwal, et al. (2025). CONSORT 2025 statement: Updated guideline for reporting randomised trials. PLOS Medicine, 22(4), e1004587. Public Library of Science (PLoS).

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Post published on Bluesky on 15 Apr 2025 12:05

Autistics (N=8) discuss social communication, focus group study, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "There was, in some online autistic spaces, a perceived intolerance of disagreement, a lack of good-faith assumptions when people phrased things poorly, and an over-eagerness to start fights"?

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HEA Sutherland, Catherine J Crompton, Joseph Long, Sue Fletcher-Watson (2025). ‘Read My Lips, Not My Body’: A Thematic Analysis of Autistic People's Social Communication Preferences, Experiences, and Expectations. Neurodiversity, 3, 27546330251333919. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 14 Apr 2025 10:30

Registered: "experiences of misophonia"--including "adults' or children's accounts of their experience of living with misophonia" & "family members experiences of their family member's misophonia" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review of qualitative studies, autism-relevant

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Megan Morris, Fiona Gullon-Scott, Joe Logan (2025). The Experiences and Impact of Misophonia: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies. CRD/PROSPERO. Newcastle University Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.

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Post published on Bluesky on 13 Apr 2025 11:06

Autistic (vs non-autistic) narratives "were overall less coherent"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... autistic narratives "included more comments unrelated to the story and more image descriptions, less causal connectives, less internal state language and fewer mentions of main characters"

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Marie Belenger, Charlotte Dumont, Philippine Geelhand, Mikhail Kissine (2025). Investigating sex differences in narrative production of autistic pre-adolescents and adolescents. Research in Autism, 124, 202589. Elsevier BV.

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