#Autism

hot take but a lot of autism community "advice" is just like "don't listen to anyone criticizing your social behavior it's all just neurotypical bullshit" and idk like... i think
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What happened to mirror neurons? New preprint with @drccatmur No. of papers 1996-2019 including “mirror neuron” in the title, abstract, or keywords (Scopus, 12th May 2020) https://psyarxiv.com/dtnqg/  Thread Succinct review
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the common misconceptions of ADHD. (a thread) by a psychiatric nurse practitioner with ADHD . adhd is misunderstood. peoplewith add or adhd are written off as just being hyper or
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#Autism & #WearAMask thread An autistic boy challaned by @trafficchd police in CHD for not wearing a mask while sitting INSIDE the car with glasses rolled up & in spite
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Tw // Mental Illness, Body Dysphoria, Showering, Persobal hygiene, Dentist, Body Image The correlation between bad personal hygiene and mental health/Nerodivergence and gender identity A thread - First of all
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I know a lot of my mutuals are seeing what I share about being autistic and are liking what I post and that's great! There's a lot of resources I
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Once again I'm reminded that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The recent push by a large number of autistic people to 'own' their diagnosis and try to
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Autistic traits which are less spoken about - a thread. /1 Face blindness is the struggle to recognise people's faces. This can be really frustrating. People walk up to me
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Autism and gaslighting.A thread. I don't even know what gaslighting was until recently. Yet it happened to me throughout my childhood, throughout my studies and throughout the 13 years I
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New research. Brace yourselves. Behaviourism.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7898/ Ready? Here we go...This is about making three young autistic children play 'correctly' with play sets. (p 177 onwards in this long paper). H
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“Autistic” is not a bad word. It’s a neutral, descriptive term that is very much preferred by autistic people ourselves. Much like Deaf people and Blind people, the majority of
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A 2020 study on #autistic camouflaging strategies! They identified four types and made some interesting observations on how they affect diagnosis. [a thread]https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-019-0308-y Partic
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Today (ToDAY!) is the 30th anniversary of the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and I'm about to let y'all know why you should care. 1/ The ADA was signed into
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This is a thread about being an #AutismMom. It's off the cuff, in no particular order, and not meant to be judgmental. I am in no way perfect and don't
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i’ve been researching the connection between the anti-vax movement and the mainstream medical & cultural misunderstanding of what autism is and it is horrifying. the right wing made autism a
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I wish I could stop talking about Sia, but I have a few points to make about her recent “apology” in the Sydney Morning Herald. One thing she said was,
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