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 11 Feb 2025 12:28

On reluctant participants in research, autism-relevant, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "some documented reasons for reluctance to engage with research include experience of stigma, suspicion of research, experiences of vulnerability or disenfranchisement, and history of research abuses"

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E. B. Gross, Susan A. Gelman (2025). Research With the Reluctant: Challenges and Strategies. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(1), 25152459241304775. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Feb 2025 10:29

Registered: in autistic children (age 2-8 years), predictors of spoken/expressive language (defined as "the ability to verbally communicate thoughts, needs, and feelings using words, phrases, or sentences using meaningful and appropriate speech"?) www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis... systematic review

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(n.d.). PROSPERO. CRD/PROSPERO. Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York.

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Post published on Bluesky on 9 Feb 2025 11:05

Revising CATI (comprehensive autistic trait inventory) using "a neurodiversity approach"--"aiming to mitigate the potential for items to propagate stigma or autism stereotypes"? molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... "camouflage" changes to "masking" but "cognitive rigidity" is unchanged?

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Friederike Charlotte Hechler, Outi Tuomainen, Nathan Weber, Frank Fahr, Bodie Karlek, Marie Maroske, Meike Misia, Nathan Caruana (2025). “What does ‘often’ even mean?” Revising and validating the Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory in partnership with autistic people. Molecular Autism, 16(1), 7-7. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 8 Feb 2025 11:13

Brain signal variability (BSV, "a crucial component of optimal brain function") decreases with age in typical people, but autistics (N=351, age 5-50) "show the opposite pattern, where BSV increases across development"? molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... cross-sectional data from ABIDE

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Priyanka Sigar, Nicholas Kathrein, Elijah Gragas, Lauren Kupis, Lucina Q. Uddin, Jason S. Nomi (2025). Age-related changes in brain signal variability in autism spectrum disorder. Molecular Autism, 16(1), 8. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 7 Feb 2025 12:12

In their struggle to make an autistic child (age 5) "choose" a non-edible item instead of an edible item for a reinforcer, behavior analysts reduce the size of the edible item, from 1/4 to 1/8 to 1/16 of a Starburst? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... the ABA "preference assessment" in 2025

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Sydney B. Miller, Sara K. Snyder, Kevin M. Ayres, Rachel R. Cagliani (2025). The effect of magnitude on the displacement of leisure items by edible items. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 58(2), 464-473. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 6 Feb 2025 11:20

"we cannot... assume that a questionnaire measure or lab-based procedure shown to be a valid predictor of prospective memory ‘in the field’ in one population (e.g. older neurotypical individuals) would necessarily be so for an autistic population" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

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Amanda Roestorf, Dermot M. Bowler, Sebastian B. Gaigg, Patricia Howlin (2025). Prospective memory and quality of life in older and younger autistic adults. Cortex, 185, 31-49. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 5 Feb 2025 11:20

"Despite high levels of suicidality in autistic people, the role of sleep remains unknown which severely limits our understanding of suicidality and development of adequate prevention strategies for autistic people" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... commentary

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Amanda L. Richdale, Eric M. J. Morris, Lauren P. Lawson (2025). Suicidality in Autistic Adolescents and Adults: Sleep the Unexplored Connection?. Autism Research, 18(3), 468-475. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 4 Feb 2025 12:32

Creating BADDS, a measure of "workplace stressors specific to behavioral health providers in clinical settings for autism..."? link.springer.com/article/10.1... quotes from providers: "for an RBT it’s sort of like throwing you off to the wild" "I don’t feel comfortable doing that type of restraint"

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4 Feb 2025 12:35

Note: in phase 2, N=44 providers were surveyed, of whom N=31 were RBTs, N=1 was a BCABA, N=1 was a BCBA, & N=8 "indicated no coursework in behavior analysis. Although these eight individuals indicated no formal coursework, they were providing behavior analytic services to autistic individuals"

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Summer Bottini, Jennifer Gillis Mattson, Jessica Herrod, Cynthia Sinha, Mindy Scheithauer, Joanna Lomas Mevers, Lawrence Scahill (2026). Qualitative Exploration and Proof of Concept Toward the Development of the Burnout Assessment for Developmental Disability Settings (BADDS) for Behavioral Health Providers. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 56(6), 2448-2460. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 3 Feb 2025 10:23

Registered: for autistics (any age), "What types of interventions targeting emotion regulation have been evaluated" & "Do these interventions improve emotion regulation" & "Do these interventions improve mental health" www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis... systematic review (including all study types?)

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Post published on Bluesky on 3 Feb 2025 09:50

Note: ID is now used in autism research by (almost) everyone to subgroup autistics, but this study shows that an autistic with a VABS composite score of 114 can be judged ID, while an autistic with a VABS composite score of 54 (60 points or 4 SD lower) can be judged not ID--see Table 1

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