Public @autismcrisis posts on Bluesky and Twitter/X

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Post published on Bluesky on 20 May 2026 11:49

See behavior analysts use punishment (response blocking) to stop autistics from "arranging and ordering" (e.g. "lining pens up" "straightening tables or chairs" "fixing items that were out of place" "closing drawers" "capping or uncapping pens") onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ABA in 2026

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Riley A. Fergus, William H. Ahearn, Ashley Matthews, Olivia Pandola (2026). Functional analysis and treatment of higher level restricted repetitive behavior displayed by individuals with autism. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 59(3), e70066. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 19 May 2026 12:21

"The ADOS-2 has never been validated for autistic examiners" (or ADHD examiners, or...) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in a letter, authors "call for systematic examination of how examiner neurotype affects ADOS-2 administration and scoring"

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Mary Doherty, Sebastian C K Shaw, Catherine Dakin, Damian Milton, Hannah Morton (2026). The ADOS-2 rapport item: an unexamined assumption. The Lancet Psychiatry, 13(7), 545-546. Elsevier BV.

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Post published on Bluesky on 18 May 2026 11:00

Registered: aiming to "systematically identify and synthesise qualitative studies exploring how autism is conceptualised, interpreted, and made meaningful within lay (non-expert) populations" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review and meta-ethnographic synthesis

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M. Yusuf Rasul, Matthew Knight, James Stacey (2026). Lay Social Representations of Autism: Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnographic Synthesis. CRD/PROSPERO. University of Oxford..

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Post published on Bluesky on 17 May 2026 11:41

Social support & QoL in autistics aged 40 & older--"getting more initial practical support was linked to lower overall QoL 2 years later"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "baseline QoL is more strongly predictive of later subjective social support than baseline social support is of later QoL"?

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Wei Song, Goldie A. McQuaid, Rebecca A. Charlton, Gregory L. Wallace (2026). Longitudinal Association Between Social Support and Quality of Life Among Middle-Aged and Older Autistic Adults. Autism, 30(6), 1548-1561. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 16 May 2026 11:33

"emotion dysregulation" & "prediction gone awry" in autism & ADHD? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "autism may involve heightened confidence assigned to surprising inputs together with sluggish updating of expectations, a combination that can produce both reactivity and emotional inertia"?

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Hari Srinivasan, Carissa J. Cascio, Mark T. Wallace (2026). Prediction Gone Awry: A Computational Framework for Emotion Dysregulation Across Autism and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 10445463261448490. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 15 May 2026 12:18

"Autistic neurodiversity supporters tend to exhibit more scientifically based knowledge and support well-established uses of science and medicine more than most of the autism community"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... note: in this article, 89% (8 of 9) of the references are self-cites

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Steven K. Kapp (2026). The neurodiversity movement vs. the medical model of autism. World Psychiatry, 25(2), 322-323. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 14 May 2026 11:48

Yes autistic independent typers exist, but no this does not mean "support" controlling what autistics type is beneficial vs harmful onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... letter claiming fair tests of FC, rapid prompting, etc--which have been hyped as beneficial for decades--are still not possible

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Vikram K. Jaswal, Barry M. Prizant, Morgan D. Barense, Kristie Patten, Gary Stobbe (2026). Independent Typers Exist: A Reply to Letters on Why We Need to Study Assisted Methods to Teach Typing. Autism Research, 19(5), e70278-e70278. Wiley.

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Post published on Bluesky on 13 May 2026 11:54

Registered: "this review will investigate whether interventions with an interoceptive mechanism of change decrease symptoms of anxiety in autistic individuals and explore which dimensions of interoception this may work at" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

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Ella Scott, Rachel Clare Knight, Geoffrey Bird, Caroline Catmur (2026). Exploring the mind-body link: interoceptive-based interventions for anxiety in autistic populations, a systematic review.. CRD/PROSPERO. Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience - Kings College London.

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Post published on Bluesky on 12 May 2026 12:12

Autistic burnout, interviews, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "The research team comprised both autistic and non-autistic researchers"--autistics "contributed lived experience" (only?) but non-autistics "contributed... perspectives grounded in qualitative methodology and autism research"?

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Megan M. Clarey, Michael J. Ireland, Susan Abel, Charlotte Brownlow (2026). Beyond Exhaustion: Shame, Identity Disruption, and Functional Collapse in Autistic Burnout. Autism, 30(6), 1519-1531. SAGE Publications.

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Post published on Bluesky on 11 May 2026 10:50

Registered: autism & musculoskeletal pain, systematic review www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... "the relationship between autism and musculoskeletal pain during adolescence and young adulthood, a critical developmental period for the onset and persistence of pain, has received limited investigation"

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Megumi Hisatsugu, Emre Ilhan, Cliffton Chan, Payton Soussa, Laura Montgomery, Katelynn Boerner, Michael Swain (2026). The association between autism and musculoskeletal pain in adolescents and young adults. CRD/PROSPERO. Macquarie University, The University of Sydney.

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