Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

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Post published on Bluesky on 19 Nov 2024 10:48

20 years ago today--the decision in Auton at the Supreme Court of Canada. This was an autism ABA human rights (Charter) case, under Canada's highest law. Only 1 autistic had a say in Auton, as an SCC intervener. Both sides opposed my intervention. I opposed both sides & threw out their "facts"

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19 Nov 2024 10:49

Note: in Auton at the SCC, major disability rights & autism organizations intervened en masse to demand ABA-based autism interventions. They en masse denied autistics' human rights, instead demanding unacceptable harmful rock-bottom ABA standards for autistics, while denying autistics any voice

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Post published on Bluesky on 18 Nov 2024 11:07

Registered: in autism intervention research, "What are autism researchers’ rationales for targeting the social skills of autistic adolescents..." & "What autistic communities’ perspectives and priorities, if at all, are taken into account" etc www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis... systematic review

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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 17 Nov 2024 11:41

Based on parent-reported CBCL scores for autistics aged 6-18, comparing "general psychopathology" vs "internalizing/externalizing" factor models & finding "neither model had an acceptable fit" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "CBCL may not be the most appropriate measure for autistic youth"

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Hannah Muriel Robb Burrows, Brianne Derby, Laura de la Roche, Melissa Susko, Rob Nicolson, Stelios Georgiades, Jessica Jones, Evdokia Anagnostou, et al. (2025). Investigating the general psychopathology factor in autistic youth. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 119, 102519. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 16 Nov 2024 11:39

"Questionable research practices in the quantitative coding of open-ended data... can undermine scientific progress & harm those affected by the research. Unfortunately, with current standards, these questionable practices remain hidden..." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... autism-relevant, free

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Clare Conry-Murray, Tal Waltzer, Fiona C. DeBernardi, Jessica L. Fossum, Simona Haasova, Michael S. Matthews, Aoife O’Mahony, David Moreau, et al. (2024). Validity and Transparency in Quantifying Open-Ended Data. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7(4), 25152459241275217. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 15 Nov 2024 12:30

"Frank autism" in autistic, LAD ("loss of autism diagnosis") & typical 12-39 yr-olds? molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... for 33% of autistics "clinicians...did not have an initial impression of autism"? "LAD individuals are indistinguishable from their NT peers on initial impression"?

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Rebecca R. Canale, Caroline Larson, Rebecca P. Thomas, Marianne Barton, Deborah Fein, Inge-Marie Eigsti (2024). Investigating frank autism: clinician initial impressions and autism characteristics. Molecular Autism, 15(1), 48-48. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 14 Nov 2024 16:31

Now researchers are claiming to compare outcomes for "profoundly" vs "non-profoundly" autistic people subject to inpatient ABA treatment? link.springer.com/article/10.1... one of the N=14 "profound" autistics had an 22.5% increase in "problem behavior" after 91 days of inpatient ABA treatment

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14 Nov 2024 16:35

Note: in this paper "profound autism" is defined as "individuals with an IQ of <50 and/or are minimally or non-verbal" (of the N=14 "profound" autistics here, for N=10 ID is "unspecified" or "no testing available")

Another note: one "profound" autistic is reported to be 177 years old (see Table 1)

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Patrick W. Romani, Mathew C. Luehring, Angelique M. Koerner, Shanna M. Baikie (2024). Characterization and Outcomes of Profoundly and Non-profoundly Autistic Individuals Admitted to a Specialized Psychiatric Inpatient Unit. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 13 Nov 2024 11:37

Autistic (vs non-autistic) adults were not "slower or more error-prone... during perspective taking and/or belief reasoning" but "committed significantly fewer mistakes" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "findings cannot be explained in terms of simplistic deficit-based notions of autism..."

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Rachel Lara Green, Sarah Joanne Carrington, Daniel Joel Shaw, Klaus Kessler (2025). Investigating visual perspective taking and belief reasoning in autistic adults: A pre-registered online study. Autism, 29(4), 920-933. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 12 Nov 2024 12:32

More on "persistent" vs "non-persistent" autism?--study of N=213 children (N=134 persistent, N=79 non) link.springer.com/article/10.1... 32.1% of children classified as "persistent" had ADHD, 34.3% had ID, 6% had anxiety; vs 19%, 0%, 7.6% of children classified as "non-persistent," respectively?

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Elizabeth Harstad, Maya Golden, Georgios Sideridis, Stephanie J. Brewster, William Barbaresi (2026). Developmental and Psychiatric Conditions Among 5–7 Year Old Children with Non-persistent and Persistent Autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 56(3), 1017-1026. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 11 Nov 2024 10:51

Emotion dysregulation profiles in young autistics?--18% were "persistently self-regulated" & 54% were "moderate and declining" & 28% were "persistently dysregulated"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... child characteristics "failed to demonstrate reliable associations with trajectory profiles"

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Teresa Bennett, Marc Jambon, Anat Zaidman-Zait, Eric K. Duku, Stelios Georgiades, Mayada Elsabbagh, Isabel M. Smith, Tracy Vaillancourt, et al. (2025). Early-Onset Trajectories of Emotional Dysregulation in Autistic Children. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 64(6), 710-723. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 10 Nov 2024 11:42

"despite minimal baseline group differences, functional connectivity measures were ‘shifted’ differently by each drug probe in autistic compared to non-autistic individuals"? www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... "the autistic brain had a greater magnitude of shift in response to any drug..."?

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Tobias P. Whelan, Lucas G.S. Franca, Mihail Dimitrov, Charlotte M. Pretzsch, Hester Velthuis, Andreia C. Pereira, Claire L. Ellis, Glynis Irvin, et al. (2024). Autistic Neural Shiftability: The Distinct Pharmacological Landscape of the Autistic Brain. openRxiv.

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