Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

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Post published on Bluesky on 3 Mar 2025 10:33

"individuals with lived experience might express opposing views" "dissensus should be actively encouraged and nurtured, not only among researchers with lived experience, but also as an asset among all partners involved in science" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... on dissensus, autism-relevant

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Helene Speyer, Marte Ustrup (2025). Embracing dissensus in lived experience research: the power of conflicting experiential knowledge. The Lancet Psychiatry, 12(4), 310-316. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 2 Mar 2025 11:13

Review of recent studies using ABA punishment procedures "to reduce challenging behavior"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... in autism & other disabilities, punishment was mostly used for "stereotypy" (68%)?--followed by "self‐injurious behavior" (13%), "aggression & non‐compliance" (11%)?

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Sarah Ferrier, Mirela Cengher, Ally Clearfield (2025). Punishment happens, but the state of behavior analysis is changing for the better. Behavioral Interventions, 40(2), e2064. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 1 Mar 2025 12:48

ABAS scores ("adaptive functioning," AF) for autistic vs non-autistic 16-24 year-olds?--"levels of agreement between parents and youth... were relatively low" link.springer.com/article/10.1... "autistic, but not non-autistic, youth rated social AF abilities significantly higher than their parents"

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Jo A. Yon-Hernández, Ana-Maria Iosif, Apurv Srivastav, Marjorie Solomon (2026). Adaptive Functioning Across Contexts: A Comparison of Parent and Self-Reported Ratings in Autistic and Non-Autistic Youth. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 56(7), 2839-2850. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 28 Feb 2025 11:59

"findings corroborate evidence from self-report questionnaire and health-record-based investigations indicating frequent earlier contacts with specialist psychiatric care among autistic individuals, without being diagnosed with autism" acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Swedish data, free

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Miriam I. Martini, Ralf Kuja‐Halkola, Agnieszka Butwicka, Ebba Du Rietz, Aleksandra Kanina, Isabell Brikell, Zheng Chang, Henrik Larsson, et al. (2025). Sex differences in psychiatric diagnoses preceding autism diagnosis and their stability post autism diagnosis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 66(8), 1170-1181. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 27 Feb 2025 11:52

In autistic vs non-autistic vs mixed pairs, not finding differences in social motor synchrony (SMS)? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... contrary to the authors' hypothesis that "SMS will be significantly higher in non-autistic dyads than those containing at least one autistic individual"

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Themis N Efthimiou, Charlotte EH Wilks, Sarah Foster, Michelle Dodd, Noah J Sasson, Danielle Ropar, Martin Lages, Sue Fletcher-Watson, et al. (2025). Social motor synchrony and interactive rapport in autistic, non-autistic, and mixed-neurotype dyads. Autism, 13623613251319585. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 26 Feb 2025 11:43

How autistic groups build towers: "every member... participated in the tasks" & "no participants... built a separate tower from the rest of the group" & "no... group ever rebuilt a tower after already beginning one" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... unlike nonautistic & mixed groups (see Table 4)

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Sarah J Foster, Robert A Ackerman, Charlotte EH Wilks, Michelle Dodd, Rachel Calderon, Danielle Ropar, Sue Fletcher-Watson, Catherine J Crompton, et al. (2025). Rapport in same and mixed neurotype groups of autistic and non-autistic adults. Autism, 29(7), 1700-1710. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 25 Feb 2025 12:12

"While identifying easily measured, univariate biomarker(s) for autism would undoubtedly bring about a paradigm shift in the way that autism is understood and diagnosed, our work suggests that such biomarkers may not exist"? molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... resting state EEG study

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Adam J.O. Dede, Wenyi Xiao, Nemanja Vaci, Michael X. Cohen, Elizabeth Milne (2025). Exploring EEG resting state differences in autism: sparse findings from a large cohort. Molecular Autism, 16(1), 13. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 24 Feb 2025 10:51

"A robust cohort of autistic professionals would quickly dispute autistic incompetence and incapacity; refute autistic abnormality; destigmatize autistic priorities and ways of being; and rectify imbalances of power in decision-making"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... interviews, COIs, free

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Zosia Zaks (2025). Moving to a neurodiversity-affirming paradigm in the support system: Autistic professionals As paradigm change. Neurodiversity, 3, 27546330241294138. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 23 Feb 2025 10:43

The journal "Research in Autism" has published its first papers (all are free at the moment) www.sciencedirect.com/journal/rese... this is the journal "formerly known as" Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, whose founding in 2007 precipitated the Matson saga, harming autistics everywhere

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(n.d.). Research in Autism | Vol 120, In progress (February 2025) | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

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Post published on Bluesky on 22 Feb 2025 11:41

In "naturalistic face-to-face" interaction with a confederate, autistic (vs typical) men show "fewer initiations and more break-ups of mutual eye gaze... resulting in reduced eye contact" molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... autistics "also experienced the conversation as more aversive"

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Daniel Tönsing, Bastian Schiller, Antonia Vehlen, Kathrin Nickel, Ludger Tebartz van Elst, Gregor Domes, Markus Heinrichs (2025). Altered interactive dynamics of gaze behavior during face-to-face interaction in autistic individuals: a dual eye-tracking study. Molecular Autism, 16(1), 12. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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