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 28 Nov 2024 12:36

Autistics have an increased (vs narrow) dynamic range?--the IDR (increased dynamic range) model of autism? www.nature.com/articles/s41... "a simple computational principle linking inference and computational dynamics to the neuronal population’s dynamic range can explain autism... variation"? free

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Oded Wertheimer, Yuval Hart (2024). Autism spectrum disorder variation as a computational trade-off via dynamic range of neuronal population responses. Nature Neuroscience, 27(12), 2476-2486. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 27 Nov 2024 11:15

What do researchers mean by "late diagnosis" of autism?-- systematic review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 420 studies mentioned late diagnosis but only 146 (34.7%) "provided a clear threshold... The average cutoff for late diagnosis was 11.53 years (range=2–55 years; median=6.5 years)"

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Alison S. Russell, Tyler C. McFayden, Margaret McAllister, Kimberly Liles, Sophie Bittner, John F. Strang, Clare Harrop (2025). Who, when, where, and why: A systematic review of “late diagnosis” in autism. Autism Research, 18(1), 22-36. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 26 Nov 2024 12:46

Researchers report on their multi-step attempt to identify scammer participants in an autism study journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "the virtual screening pre-focus group interviews were the most successful in identifying scammers because it required engagement in face-to-face communication..."?

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Meghan E Carey, Kiley J McLean, Kyle Chvasta, Ashley de Marchena, Anne M Roux (2025). Methods to reduce fraudulent participation and highlight autistic voices in research. Autism, 29(4), 859-867. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 25 Nov 2024 10:59

Registered: "the professional issues experienced by autistic educators"--systematic review www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis... outcomes include "depression, anxiety, burnout, psychological distress" & "discrimination at work, sensory issues, social/communication barriers, career progression..."

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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 24 Nov 2024 11:02

"the cognitive flexibility of autistic individuals is not inherently impaired; instead, their difficulty is modulated by the nature of the stimuli. This likely contributes to the mixed results observed when investigating flexibility abilities" molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... free

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Adeline Lacroix, Yoann Bennetot-Deveria, Monica Baciu, Frédéric Dutheil, Valentin Magnon, Marie Gomot, Martial Mermillod (2024). Understanding cognitive flexibility in emotional evaluation in autistic males and females: the social context matters. Molecular Autism, 15(1), 49-49. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 23 Nov 2024 11:14

Pairs of autistics "are as adept as pairs of nonautistic participants at information exchange in the context of a collaborative task" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "autistic and nonautistic dyads demonstrated equal efficiency in communicating... and in managing the flow of their interactions"

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Philippine Geelhand, Fanny Papastamou, Solène Jaspard, Mikhail Kissine (2025). Autistic adults display different verbal behavior only in mixed-neurotype interactions: Evidence from a referential communication task. Autism, 29(5), 1129-1142. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 22 Nov 2024 12:24

Autistic adults aged 19-65 (vs age-matched non-autistic adults) "had higher use of possibly unnecessary and costly hospital-based care, including repeat emergency department visits, repeat hospital admissions, and delayed hospital discharges" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Ontario study

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Yona Lunsky, Robert Balogh, Hannah Chung, Anna Durbin, Meng-Chuan Lai, Ami Tint, Jonathan Weiss, Barry Isaacs, et al. (2025). Repeated use of hospital-based services and delayed hospital discharges in a population-based cohort of autistic adults in Canada. Autism, 29(2), 536-543. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 21 Nov 2024 12:38

For N=95 young autistics, "OT and speech pathology were the most accessed, with 76 (80%) and 69 (72.6%) surveyed families using these respectively... EIBI and ESDM were respectively accessed by just two (2.1%) and three (3.2%) children"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Australian study

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Katherine Pye, Ha N. D. Le, Teresa Iacono, Lisa Gold (2024). Utilization of early therapeutic supports by autistic preschoolers in Australia: A cross‐sectional study following implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Autism Research, 17(12), 2689-2701. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 20 Nov 2024 11:46

Why adults self-identify as autistic (vs being formally diagnosed), interviews journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... participants "faced significant barriers to receiving a formal diagnosis and deterrents to embarking on this process" & "expressed concerns about facing stigma and discrimination"

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Katherine Ardeleanu, Hillary Steinberg, Tamara Garfield, Samuelle Voltaire, Lindsay Shea, Maci Brown, Kyle Chvasta, Catherine Do Tan (2025). Self-identification of autism: Why some autistic adults lack a clinical diagnosis and why this matters for inclusion. Autism, 29(9), 2344-2355. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 19 Nov 2024 13:10

"the autistic auditory profile and how it relates to broader autistic attributes"--narrative review, free onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... lots about hypersensitivity, hyperacusis, misophonia, sensory overload etc--but little about music & nothing about absolute pitch, chord disembedding etc?

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R. Poulsen, Z. Williams, P. Dwyer, E. Pellicano, P. F. Sowman, D. McAlpine (2024). How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: A review. Autism Research, 17(12), 2452-2470. Wiley.

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