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 2 Apr 2025 11:29

"transdiagnostic dimensional alternatives" vs "the diagnostic conceptualization of autism"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "While RDoC and HiTOP hold significant promise, they are still evolving and are not yet ready to replace the conceptualization of autism provided by the DSM or ICD"?

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Lacey C. Chetcuti, Emily K. Spackman, Thomas W. Frazier, Andrew J. O. Whitehouse, Mirko Uljarević (2025). The autism phenotype and transdiagnostic dimensional frameworks. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 67(9), 1130-1136. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 1 Apr 2025 12:04

Public views of the neurodiversity movement?--most "approved of the NDM, but they also had some critiques" including "concerns that the NDM is too extreme or excludes the perspectives of people with severe disabilities..."? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... note: this public is 57% autistic

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Rachel A VanDaalen, Alessandro A Vallefuoco, Margarette Lorraine Fernandez, Sarah Y Liu, Cecilia JA Lemaire (2025). Public Perceptions of the Neurodiversity Movement: A Thematic Analysis. Neurodiversity, 3, 27546330251325973. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 31 Mar 2025 10:43

Registered: "measures that assess knowledge and attitudes about neurodiversity"--systematic review www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... also including "instruments that assess knowledge or attitudes of specific disabilities (e.g., autism) if they use neurodiversity as a conceptual framework..."?

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Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Ruoxi Guo, Jessica Hinson Williams, Yueyang Shen, Caroline Braun (2025). A Systematic Review of Neurodiversity Knowledge and Neurodiversity Attitudes Assessments. CRD/PROSPERO. Boston College.

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Post published on Bluesky on 30 Mar 2025 11:53

"Of children presenting to EDs for drowning incidents, a significantly higher proportion of children diagnosed with autism... died, in comparison to all children presenting to the ED for drowning related incidents" link.springer.com/article/10.1... US emergency department unintentional drowning data

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Kristal Xie, Ashley Blanchard, Stanford Chihuri, Matthew Russell, Caleb Ing, Carolyn DiGuiseppi, Guohua Li (2025). Unintentional Drowning Incidents Involving Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Treated in US Emergency Departments, 2016–2020. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 29 Mar 2025 10:47

"While autistic adults may differ in how they process emotional stimuli, they can do so effectively when given sufficient time" link.springer.com/article/10.1... findings reflect "the ability of autistic individuals to perform in an area often thought to be one of considerable impairment"

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Robert M. Jertberg, Sander Begeer, Hilde M. Geurts, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Erik Van der Burg (2025). Intact but Protracted Facial and Prosodic Emotion Recognition Among Autistic Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 28 Mar 2025 11:45

Among autistic adults (15.9% men, 67% diagnosed), "approximately 75%... reported using some noise-cancelling device, including earplugs and over- and in-ear noise-cancelling headphones"? www.nature.com/articles/s41... which they report using for under 30 min to over 16 hours, on an average day

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R. Poulsen, D. W. Tan, P. F. Sowman, D. McAlpine, E. Pellicano (2025). Auditory environments influence the link between Autistic traits and quality of life. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 10612-10612. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 27 Mar 2025 10:40

FInding "the most autism-distinctive criteria pertain to repetitive and stereotypical perception-based behaviors, special interests, and sensory reactivity..."? www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... calling into question "the heavy focus on social deficits in research and clinical practice..."

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Jack Stanley, Emmett Rabot, Siva Reddy, Eugene Belilovsky, Laurent Mottron, Danilo Bzdok (2025). Large language models deconstruct the clinical intuition behind diagnosing autism. Cell, 188(8), 2235-2248.e10. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 26 Mar 2025 10:44

RCT of A-FFIP (an NDBI, i.e. ABA) vs EIAU (early intervention as usual) for young autistic children? COIs acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A-FFIP "did not improve social communication, cognitive or behavioral outcomes beyond EIAU after 1 year but may improve repetitive behavior and EF"?

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Christine M. Freitag, Marietta Kirchner, Lukas D. Sauer, Solvejg K. Kleber, Leonie Polzer, Naisan Raji, Christian Lemler, Ulrike Fröhlich, et al. (2025). Complex, low‐intensity, individualised naturalistic developmental behavioural intervention in toddlers and pre‐schoolers with autism spectrum disorder: The multicentre, observer‐blind, parallel‐group randomised‐controlled A‐FFIP trial. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 66(10), 1500-1513. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 25 Mar 2025 12:09

Early career researchers claim "a mismatch between the dire need for autism providers and the limited supply of trained providers, as highlighted by a study on the supply of ABA providers"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... note: still no evidence that ABA providers help (vs harm) autistics

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Michele E. Villalobos, Giacomo Vivanti, Subhashini Jayanath, Kimberly Carpenter, Mark D. Shen, Frederick Shic, Jill Locke (2025). Identifying and Responding to Gaps in the Academic Research Pipeline: Findings From the International Society for Autism Research (INSAR ) Early Career Committee. Autism Research, 18(4), 717-724. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 24 Mar 2025 09:41

In children referred for autism, "lower adaptive and language skills but similar cognitive levels" in those diagnosed vs not diagnosed autistic? "Discrepancy between adaptive & language skills compared to cognitive function should heighten concern for autism"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... free

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Nancy Roizen, Sandra Friedman, Douglas Vanderbilt, Jaclyn Cacia, Jill Fussell, Robin Hansen, Johannes Hofer, Georgio Sideridis, et al. (2025). Developmental Profiles of Young Children Referred for Concern for Autism Spectrum Disorder: DBPNet Study. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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