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 1 Jul 2026 11:39

Now there are "emotion dysregulation" subgroups in autism?-- "Global High" "High-Reactivity Dominant" "Moderate-Internalizing Dominant" "Global Low"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... these 4 subgroups did not differ in "verbal ability, intellectual disability, or severity of autism traits"?

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Safaa Eldeeb, Jessie Northrup, Caitlin Conner, Shalini Sivathasan, Ligia Antezana, Matthew Siegel, Carla Mazefsky (2026). Identifying Unique Subgroups of Emotional and Behavioral Presentations in a Large Inpatient and Community Sample of Autistic Youth. Autism Research, e70307. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 30 Jun 2026 12:06

In autistics & others subject to ABA procedures, "renewal" of "challenging behavior" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "renewal can pose significant challenges for clinicians and caregivers implementing treatment"?--behavior analysts ignore harms to autistics from ABA procedures, again

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Matthew J. O'Brien, Alexander M. Pauls, Sara R. Jeglum, Carla N. Martinez‐Perez, Christopher T. Franck, Ishita Aggarwal, Christopher A. Podlesnik (2026). Latency and persistence of renewal in an intensive outpatient clinic. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 59(3), e70071. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 29 Jun 2026 10:46

Registered: in autistic children, "how do developmental trajectories and later outcomes differ between those who experience developmental regression and those who do not?" & "How is developmental regression defined and operationalized...?" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

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Sofie Boterberg, Ellaina Andersson, Katrina Williams, Mohammed Alshawsh, Kirsten Furley (2026). Trajectories and Outcomes of Autism-Related Developmental Regression: A Systematic Review of Prospective Cohort Studies. CRD/PROSPERO. Ghent University.

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Post published on Bluesky on 28 Jun 2026 11:28

"the label of autism carries stigma, atypical behaviour is stigmatised, and, as this exploratory study found, so are efforts to camouflage autistic traits, which are seen by non-autistic observers as less moral and acceptable compared to disclosure"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

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Valeria Khudiakova, Joel M. Le Forestier, Alison L. Chasteen (2026). How do non-autistic people view autistic camouflaging?. Research in Neurodiversity, 2, 100049. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 27 Jun 2026 12:34

The quality of systematic reviews in ABA journals, autism-relevant, free journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... "all eligible studies were rated as being of ‘critically low’ quality..." "The widespread absence of sufficiently comprehensive risk of bias assessment is... particularly concerning" etc

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Richard May, Olivia Campbell, Magda Apanasionok, Josh Molina, Christopher Seel, Vaso Totsika, Aoife McTiernan, Alan Tennyson, et al. (2026). Evaluating the quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses published in behaviour analysis journals: An umbrella review. PLOS One, 21(6), e0350142. Public Library of Science (PLoS).

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Post published on Bluesky on 26 Jun 2026 11:57

Are autism and aphantasia related?--autistics "are slightly more likely to report having weaker than average imagined sensations... but this association is weak, and any autistic individual might well report having vivid, weak or no visualisations at all" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

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Derek H. Arnold, Loren Bouyer, Blake W. Saurels, D. Samuel Schwarzkopf, Elizabeth Pellicano (2026). Autism and Aphantasia. Consciousness and Cognition, 143, 104085. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 25 Jun 2026 12:31

The "solitude-loneliness (SOLO) paradox" in autism? Autistics "appear to experience a distinctive imbalance. Despite expressing a stronger preference for solitude than their typically developing peers, they report heightened levels of loneliness"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... review, free

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Peter Muris, Anne Deckers, Franc Donkers, Thomas H. Ollendick, Sander Begeer (2026). The Joy and the Pain of Being Alone: Managing the Solitude-Loneliness (SOLO) Paradox in People High on the Autism Spectrum. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 24 Jun 2026 11:42

"on-task behavior" (as it is currently defined & measured) "could be a poor proxy for certain forms of academic engagement (e.g., work completion, accuracy)... care should be taken in using it as a measurement strategy or intervention goal" link.springer.com/article/10.1... autism-relevant

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P. Raymond Joslyn, Milad Najafichaghabouri, Emma Preston (2026). Toward Improved Measurement of Academic Engagement. Journal of Behavioral Education. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 23 Jun 2026 12:10

Deep brain stimulation for self-injury in N=6 autistics (age 7-14), long-term follow-up www.nature.com/articles/s41... "this work represents a foundational step toward establishing a novel treatment paradigm for children with the most severe and treatment-resistant forms of self-injurious behavior"?

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Karim Mithani, Sara Breitbart, Thiemo Dinger, Hrishikesh Suresh, Andrea LeBlanc-Millar, Joelene Huber, Elizabeth N. Kerr, Margot J. Taylor, et al. (2026). Deep brain stimulation of the nucleus accumbens for severe self-injurious behaviour in children: long-term outcomes from a first-in-human pilot trial. Molecular Psychiatry. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 22 Jun 2026 10:55

Registered: "What are the motivations for camouflaging from the perspective of autistic individuals?" "Is there any evidence that different camouflaging strategies are associated with different motivations?" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

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Clara Lee, Sam French (2026). Systematic review of the Motivations for Camouflaging from the perspective of autistic individuals. CRD/PROSPERO. University of Oxford.

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