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 23 Mar 2025 09:58

In autistic (vs non-autistic) adults, finding "increased postural sway variability and less smooth (or jerkier) postural sway trajectories"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "autistic adults may... face an elevated risk of postural control impairments and a heightened likelihood of falls"?

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Hang Qu, Jingying Wang, Desirae J. Shirley, Hanna M. Gemmell, Danielle Christensen, Ann‐Marie Orlando, Regilda A. Romero, Brandon A. Zielinski, et al. (2025). Atypical Postural Control Variability and Coordination Persist Into Middle and Older Adulthood in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research, 18(4), 752-764. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 22 Mar 2025 10:24

"a high proportion of adults with intellectual disabilities living in community homes and supported living accommodations in the UK received psychotropic (mental health) medicines often off-licence for behaviours that challenge..."? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... autism-relevant, free

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S. Deb, B. Limbu, V. Allgar (2025). Pattern of psychotropic prescribing in adults with intellectual disabilities in the community settings in the UK: A cross-sectional view. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 160, 104968. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 21 Mar 2025 11:13

ABA programs harming autistics, again: "challenging behavior resurged for most participants (75%), applications (80%), and transitions (60%) and tended to increase to clinically significant levels" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "clinicians may expect resurgence to occur often..."

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Kendall M. Kastner, Stephanie A. Hood, Daniel R. Mitteer (2025). An evaluation of durability during and following delay‐and‐denial tolerance teaching. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 58(2), 344-362. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 20 Mar 2025 11:20

Measuring "sensory over-responsivity" (SOR) in autism via heart rate, parent report & observed behavior? jneurodevdisorders.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... "Accurate measurement of SOR... is a major priority given the importance of identifying & treating sensory processing difficulties in autism"?

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Apurva Chaturvedi, Sapna Ramappa, Ariana Anderson, Megan Banchik, Urvi Shah, Michelle Craske, Shulamite Green (2025). Integrating parent report, observed behavior, and physiological measures to identify biomarkers of sensory over-responsivity in autism. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 17(1), 13. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 19 Mar 2025 10:18

"To design and implement effective school-based mental health interventions, the issues of potential harm and their related measurement and reporting challenges must be addressed" acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... scoping review, autism-relevant, free

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Carolina Guzman‐Holst, Rowan Streckfuss Davis, Jack L. Andrews, Lucy Foulkes (2025). Scoping review: potential harm from school‐based group mental health interventions. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 30(3), 208-222. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 18 Mar 2025 11:14

Based on parent report, dividing autistics into "social motivation" subgroups--engaged, inhibited, aloof, avoidant? acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... the factors used "provide limited insights into individuals’ strengths & fail to capture unconventional expressions of social motivation"

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Lacey Chetcuti, Antonio Y. Hardan, Emily Spackman, Eva Loth, James C. McPartland, Thomas W. Frazier, Eric A. Youngstrom, Mirko Uljarevic (2025). Parsing the heterogeneity of social motivation in autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 66(9), 1376-1389. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 17 Mar 2025 09:46

"motor stereotypies as a common, transdiagnostic phenotype"?--autism-relevant commentary www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "If MS are frequent but do not interfere with the child’s functioning in academic, social, or other adaptive settings & cause no distress, treatment might not be necessary"?

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Nathalia Garrido-Torres, Amy Giguere Carney, Megan Lyons, Suzanne Macari, Chelsea Morgan, Kelly Powell, Mariana Torres-Viso, Angelina Vernetti, et al. (2025). Understanding Motor Stereotypies as a Transdiagnostic Phenotype. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 64(8), 865-869. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 16 Mar 2025 10:13

In a baby sibs study, "across the first year, volubility is similar in typically developing infants and infants later diagnosed with autism..."? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... note: volubility means "rate of protophone production" & protophones are "speech-like vocalizations"

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D. Kimbrough Oller, Edina R. Bene, Hyunjoo Yoo, Pumpki Lei Su, Helen Long, Cheryl Klaiman, Stormi L. Pulver, Moira L. Pileggi, et al. (2025). The robustness of speech-like vocalization in typically developing infants and infants with autism. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 159, 104949. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 15 Mar 2025 11:05

In this study, an autistic with a performance IQ of 92 is judged to be ID, while an autistic with a PIQ of 73 is judged to be not-ID? link.springer.com/article/10.1... & adaptive functioning (ABAS) social scores range up to 107 in autistics judged to be ID, vs 102 in autistics judged to be not-ID?

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Alexandra P. Key, Dorita Jones, Blythe A. Corbett (2025). Social Functioning in Autistic Children with Below-Average vs. Average IQ: Limited Behavioral and Neural Evidence of Group Differences. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 14 Mar 2025 12:04

Comparing autistic & non-autistic adults on executive functioning tasks, free onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "findings suggest that being autistic does not necessarily imply executive dysfunction on a basic cognitive level, contradicting theories assuming universal impairments therein"

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Robert M. Jertberg, Sander Begeer, Hilde M. Geurts, Bhismadev Chakrabarti, Erik Van der Burg (2025). Slow but Steady: Similarities and Differences in Executive Functioning Between Autistic and Non‐Autistic Adults. Autism Research, 18(4), 802-819. Wiley.

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