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 4 Jan 2025 11:33

In Dutch people under age 24 years, applications for medical assistance in dying (i.e. euthanasia) "based on psychiatric suffering" & their outcomes pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39745777/ of N=353 people who applied from 2012-2021, N=12 died by euthanasia, including N=9 (75%) who were diagnosed autistics

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Lizanne J.S. Schweren, Sanne P.A. Rasing, Monique Kammeraat, Leah A. Middelkoop, Ruthie Werner, Saskia Y.M. Mérelle, Julian M. Garcia, Daan H.M. Creemers, et al. (2025). Requests for Medical Assistance in Dying by Young Dutch People With Psychiatric Disorders. JAMA Psychiatry, 82(3), 246. American Medical Association (AMA).

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Post published on Bluesky on 4 Jan 2025 10:09

What I've seen (& experienced), for what it's worth: in autism research & the autistic community, yes there is a lot of concern about stigma. But very little or no concern about human rights violations & their devastating consequences to autistics

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Post published on Bluesky on 3 Jan 2025 11:46

Prevalence of dementia in autistic adults--for age 30-39, 4%; for age 40-49, 6%; for age 50-59, 10%; for age 60-64, 16%; for age 65 & up, 33% have dementia? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39745705/ US medical records study in which 59% of included autistics are judged to be intellectually disabled

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Giacomo Vivanti, Wei-Lin Lee, Jonas Ventimiglia, Sha Tao, Kristen Lyall, Lindsay L. Shea (2025). Prevalence of Dementia Among US Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder. JAMA Network Open, 8(1), e2453691. American Medical Association (AMA).

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Post published on Bluesky on 2 Jan 2025 12:07

A primary care health check vs treatment as usual for autistic adults--"clinical & cost-effectiveness" cluster RCT protocol trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... "Serious adverse events are not anticipated in the study; therefore, any event will be recorded as an unexpected adverse event"?

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Jeremy R. Parr, Helen Taylor, Colin Wilson, Clare Scarlett, Sarah Al-Asmori, Carole Buckley, Sally-Ann Cooper, Cristina Fernandez-Garcia, et al. (2024). Health checks for autistic adults: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial. Trials, 25(1), 858. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 1 Jan 2025 11:12

From Italy, "the first experimental confirmation of the atypicality of autistic individuals' accents to date"?--autistic children's speech "does not bear the dialectal features that may be detected by adult speakers from their own linguistic region" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... free

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Federica Beccaria, Gloria Gagliardi, Mikhail Kissine (2025). Atypical Regional Accent in Autistic Children: A Perception Study. Autism Research, 18(2), 415-426. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 31 Dec 2024 11:16

Behavior analysts are "in many cases, more inclined to focus on changing client behavior to better 'fit' the environment" & "might intervene on behaviors because they differ from the majority and are perhaps less acceptable to others" link.springer.com/article/10.1... survey, autism-relevant

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Crystal M. Slanzi, Samuel L. Morris, Daniel E. Conine, Faris R. Kronfli, Cassi A. Breaux, Mark S. Salzer (2025). Respecting Behavioral Diversity and Prioritizing Inclusion: Surveying Behavior Analysts’ Intervention Strategies. Behavior and Social Issues, 34(1), 87-109. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 30 Dec 2024 10:41

Registered: "How does general practice support (or not) the differing needs of autistic adults" & "What contexts and mechanisms affect the ability of general practice to optimally support autistic adults" etc www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis... "a realist review"? ("realist logic of analysis")

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Systematic review registry

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

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Post published on Bluesky on 29 Dec 2024 10:59

Introduction to "Neurodevelopmental Neurodiversity" special issue, autism-relevant www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... editors "encouraged authors to include a 'community involvement statement'" but "did not police this requirement"--"Just 2 out of the 24 papers... included such a statement"

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Punit Shah, Florence Y.N. Leung, Christopher Jarrold (2025). Neurodevelopmental neurodiversity: A cortex special issue. Cortex, 184, 73-78. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 28 Dec 2024 12:21

Addressing "a current gap in the literature regarding the meaning of developmental intervention"?--authors introduce & define & promote DRBI (Developmental Relationship-Based Interventions) for autistic children journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... uncritical position paper, massive COIs, free

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Diane A. Cullinane, Amanda V. Binns, Joshua D. Feder, Tessa Graham, Gerald J. Mahoney, Fabiënne B. A. Naber, Ricki G. Robinson, Hannah H. Schertz, et al. (2024). Developmental Relationship-Based Interventions for Autistic Children. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 02711214241303695. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 27 Dec 2024 12:24

Autism & functional neurological disorder "may co-occur more frequently than previously acknowledged and with notable overlaps in their clinical presentations and pathophysiology"?--narrative review, with COIs onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "much of the current evidence remains speculative"

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Belen Gonzalez‐Herrero, Francesca Happé, Timothy R. Nicholson, Francesca Morgante, Javier Pagonabarraga, Quinton Deeley, Mark J. Edwards (2024). Functional Neurological Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Complex and Potentially Significant Relationship. Brain and Behavior, 14(12), e70168. Wiley.

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