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 29 Sep 2024 11:23

"it is premature to embrace gestalt language development as a neurodiversity-affirmative practice"? "it is important to discuss the relationship between neurodiversity-affirmative practices and practices supported by research evidence"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... autism-relevant, free

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Courtney E Venker, Emily Lorang (2025). Continuing the conversation about echolalia and gestalt language development: A response to Haydock, Harrison, Baldwin, and Leadbitter. Autism, 29(3), 821-824. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 28 Sep 2024 11:36

How depression may present in autistics--including "increased camouflaging and social withdrawal, heightened autistic characteristics, anxiety, irritability, developmental regression, and externalising and self-injurious behaviors"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... systematic review, free

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Emma Hinze, Jessica Paynter, Nicole Dargue, Dawn Adams (2024). The Presentation of Depression in Depressed Autistic Individuals: A Systematic Review. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Springer Science and Business Media LLC.

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Post published on Bluesky on 27 Sep 2024 11:51

Findings "were not consistent with the perspective that autistic adults may be uniquely vulnerable to becoming involved in crime because of an inability to recognize and respond adaptively to another’s criminal intent during social interactions" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39325383/ novel paradigm, free

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Zoe Michael, Neil Brewer (2025). Detecting criminal intent in social interactions: The influence of autism and theory of mind.. Law and Human Behavior, 49(1), 89-107. American Psychological Association (APA).

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Post published on Bluesky on 26 Sep 2024 11:54

"It may be a controversial view, but interventions designed to hammer apparent ‘deficits’ yield minimal widespread benefit, and can themselves drive both stereotyping and stigma surrounding different diagnostic categories" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... commentary, autism-relevant, free

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Duncan E. Astle, Mark H. Johnson, Danyal Akarca (2025). ‘Fix’ the Child or Change the Learning Environment?. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13567-e13567. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 25 Sep 2024 10:40

Registered: "Commonalities and differences in the phenomenon of social camouflaging between autistic and non-autistic populations" & "Motivating factors of social camouflaging..." & "Intended or inintended impacts of social camouflaging..." 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 24 Sep 2024 11:43

In a conversation, autistics (age 10-18 years) produced "relatively high numbers of semantic unconventionalities"--which "allow for the possibility that they are using words differently, maybe to be creative or specific, rather than using words incorrectly" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free

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Emily R Zane, Ruth B Grossman (2024). Normal but Different: Autistic Adolescents Who Score Within Normal Ranges on Standardized Language Tests Produce Frequent Linguistic Irregularities in Spontaneous Discourse. Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 9, 23969415241283378. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 23 Sep 2024 10:53

Registered: "social media use and social connection/disconnection in autism and ADHD"--systematic review www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/dis... where social disconnection means "any aspect(s) of negative experiences related to social relationships" e.g., "loneliness, rejection, isolation, bullying..."

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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 22 Sep 2024 10:58

Behavior analysts claim an autistic given no choice at all (ABA vs ABA) chose badly onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... unethical case study (published as an editorial) shows the harms of functional communication training & concurrent chains--harms that behavior analysts fail to recognize

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Cody Morris, Elise A. Zarcaro, Jesse Perrin, Megan E. Ellsworth (2024). Discrepancies between treatment preference and effectiveness. Behavioral Interventions, 39(4), e2057. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 21 Sep 2024 14:10

Formal vs colloquial language in preschoolers: only 0.46% (N=20/4317) of fluent speakers used formal language--of whom most of those assessed were diagnosed autistic (N=7/8; 87.5%) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... authors "discuss strategies via which language is acquired in autism..."

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Konstantinos Francis, Nasser Alshammari, Nailah Alsulaihim, Suja Aboukhamseen, Mohammad El Dardiri, Fawzeiah AlRashidi, Hashem Almutaz Ridha, Mada AL‐Hassan, et al. (2024). The use of formal language as a strong sign of verbal autistic children in diglossic communities: The case of Arabic. Autism Research, 17(12), 2579-2587. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 20 Sep 2024 11:39

"Those with concerns about the NDM or SM should read these results carefully and ensure that any critiques they offer describe NDM and SM advocates’ views accurately"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... instead, how about looking at what advocates (on any side) actually do to autistics

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20 Sep 2024 11:41

Note: in this paper (reporting results of an online survey), NDM means "neurodiversity movement" and SM means "social model"

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Patrick Dwyer, Ava N Gurba, Steven K Kapp, Elizabeth Kilgallon, Lynnette H Hersh, David S Chang, Susan M Rivera, Kristen Gillespie-Lynch (2025). Community views of neurodiversity, models of disability and autism intervention: Mixed methods reveal shared goals and key tensions. Autism, 29(9), 2297-2314. SAGE Publications.

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