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 14 Jan 2025 12:27

Results from 2 experiments "reveal that autistic individuals take into account prior knowledge and sensory uncertainty in a manner similar to non-autistic individuals, though both groups exhibit suboptimal behavior" molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... "Contrary to common views"

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Laurina Fazioli, Bat-Sheva Hadad, Rachel N. Denison, Amit Yashar (2025). Suboptimal but intact integration of Bayesian components during perceptual decision-making in autism. Molecular Autism, 16(1), 2. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 13 Jan 2025 10:19

Registered: systematic review of studies "that use qualitative methodology to report on and present empirical qualitative data on the lived experiences of autistic people who were undiagnosed until later in life" www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis... where "later in life" means age 25 years & up

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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 12 Jan 2025 11:21

New NIH-funded project: "optimization of cannabidiol-based formulations in autism..."? "optimized formulations that overcome current dose-response limitations, safety concerns, and reliability challenges"? reporter.nih.gov/project-deta... all in autistic (BTBR) mice? $396,988 for year 1?

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Josh Kaplan (2025). Optimization of cannabidiol-based formulations in autism spectrum disorder. NIH RePORTER. WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY.

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Post published on Bluesky on 11 Jan 2025 13:14

Autistic (vs non-autistic) adults "exhibited less positive affect" & this was "most pronounced during... conversation with a non-autistic research confederate"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... autistics' "affective displays... were not atypical as much as they were less robust and more subtle"?

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Julia Tetreault, Erin M. Andres, Danielle Sipsock, Hasmik Tokadjian, Kayla Layton, Carolyn E. B. McCormick, Stephen J. Sheinkopf (2026). Affect Expression During Social and Non-Social Contexts in Autistic Young Adults. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 56(6), 2091-2101. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Jan 2025 12:00

"many ToM tests disadvantage autistic individuals in a manner unrelated to any ToM impairments"--e.g. "the requirement... to attribute mental states to entities that do not have minds" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39786849/ dismantling claims about & tests of ToM in autism, thorough, important, free

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Emily L. Long, Caroline Catmur, Geoffrey Bird (2026). The theory of mind hypothesis of autism: A critical evaluation of the status quo.. Psychological Review, 133(4), 1006-1024. American Psychological Association (APA).

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Post published on Bluesky on 9 Jan 2025 11:38

In 1 survey, autistic adults were "most likely to stim when feeling anxious (50%), frustrated (39%), excited (37%), and angry (33%)" & "least likely to stim when feeling sick (11%), tired (15%), focused (17%), in pain (18%), or daydreaming (19%)"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 2 surveys, free

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Isabelle F Morris, Jesica R Sykes, Emilie R Paulus, Alharith Dameh, Aysha Razzaque, Lauren Vander Esch, Jenna Gruenig, Philip David Zelazo (2025). Beyond self-regulation: Autistic experiences and perceptions of stimming. Neurodiversity, 3, 27546330241311096. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 8 Jan 2025 11:04

In a meta-analysis, average prevalence of autism in ARFID ("Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder") is 16.27%, with a range of 1.96%-88% across 18 papers?--& average prevalence of ARFID in autism is 11.4%, with a range 2.1%-28% across 3 papers? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... free

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Michelle Sader, Annabel Weston, Kyle Buchan, Jess Kerr‐Gaffney, Karri Gillespie‐Smith, Helen Sharpe, Fiona Duffy (2025). The Co‐Occurrence of Autism and Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID ): A Prevalence‐Based Meta‐Analysis. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 58(3), 473-488. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 7 Jan 2025 12:07

"echolalia is highly prevalent in autism, changes across development, and reflects the dynamic needs and interests of autistic individuals" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... note: "Echolalia measurement in the field of autism is incredibly imprecise" (this study used 9 items from 5 measures)

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Margaret L. McAllister, Tyler McFayden, Clare Harrop (2025). Reports of Echolalia and Related Behaviors in Autism From Parents, Teachers, and Clinicians: Evidence From the Simon Simplex Collection. Autism Research, 18(3), 528-540. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 6 Jan 2025 10:30

Are researchers still calling autistics "high-functioning"--a poorly defined, biased, etc, term? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=autism%... PubMed search for "autism AND high-functioning" reached a peak of 221 results in the year 2013, after which results have fallen, with 52 results in the year 2024

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Post published on Bluesky on 5 Jan 2025 11:12

In a baby sibs EEG study, autistic infants "showed an accelerated maturation of alpha frequencies"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "while alpha power increases are often regarded as a positive indicator of network integrity, their premature emergence may curtail developmental processes..."?

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Abigail Dickinson, Nicole McDonald, Mirella Dapretto, Emilie Campos, Damla Senturk, Shafali Jeste (2025). Accelerated Infant Brain Rhythm Maturation in Autism. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13593. Wiley.

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