#Autism

PACE YOURSELF!People on the spectrum can sometimes get carried way, in the sense that we don’t sometimes know how to put things into a logical order, or think straight about
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Ten things you wish you knew when your child was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder - A thread. #autism There is a huge community of parents of children with #SEND.
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Today I got a call from my psych provider and it was like I hadn’t been asking for months for a doctor who understands autism, even if they mostly work
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#AACusers - I can't be the only one extremely uncomfortable with professionals using/teaching #AAC exerting total control over the AAC tools?Creating, deleting, hiding buttons.Forcing users to stay on one page.Recording
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https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2020/11/02/JNEUROSCI.1237-20.2020 In the 'this is too weird to be true' category of dreadful new autism research, this team decided that autistic people are too moral and too law abiding, ther
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New Book Warning.This is out in the next few days. Another book claiming that autism is a mistaken behaviour and by normalising and modifying the child, you get rid of
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This needs to happen. My son has struggled for years in school. While not one teacher, school psychologist nor member of a school resource team ever said he didn’t need
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Missive from the dismal depths of maternity leave combined with lockdown, home-schooling and other mischief on the MH White Paper's proposals to amend the MCA/MHA interface. cc @Autism @mencap_charity @neilmcrowther
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To all non-autistic people who have autistic children: if you’re following me, you have undoubtedly become familiar with Matthew Rushin’s case. The prosecutor wrote an open letter to @GovernorVA, @MarkHerringVA,
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Thread about living with alexithymia #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodiversity #autismI experience alexithymia. It's one of those anecdotal conditions that autists know we experience, but it's not formally dxed or researched.It's like c
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So excited! @RachaelVDavis & I have a new paper out where we explore what new findings about social interaction in autistic adults mean for neurodevelopmental research. Thread! https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691620958
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people with autism are the only people able to say the r slur and here's whyallistics read and rt /srs tw // r slur.the word retard was used in the
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It is absurd to see parents telling autistic people here that “your autism is not like MY kid’s autism.” Sure, and your experience as a parent is not like all
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Getting an autism diagnosis late in life introduced me to a number of new concepts: meltdown, shutdown, burnout and sensory overload. Applied to my life retrospectively these made perfect sense,
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How many people know they're autistic, so far.These are the studies from various countries and teams.England & Scotland data taken from the official school records.The problem is, not everyone knows
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So since autism and autistic people are kinda trending, I decided do a thread on autism and give a little insight into how my life is as someone who is
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