#Autism

#ThreadThings that made me realise I actually was autistic......when I got my autism diagnosis at the age of 58.#ActuallyAutistic#LateDiagnosis#AllAutistics1/ My vocabulary was very advanced for my age in childhood.Reading books
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A belated Happy New Year to our followers! While 2020 was a challenging year, our little STAR team grew with new members and research. This thread summarises our publications from
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In 2011, the Winterbourne View scandal revealed appalling & criminal abuse of people with learning disabilities & autism in hospital inpatient units. Today we hear, once again, too little has
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Are you looking for some good autistic representation in film? Then this thread is for you! Here are 9 films and TV shows with autistic subjects/characters who are portrayed accurately
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Okay I'm having some Complicated Thoughts: Ever since Renarin was confirmed as queer/m I've seen a surge in posts where any time he thinks about being different/other/not fitting in people
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There are not many studies on the escalation and de-escalation of commitment bias, but the ones that exist are fascinating. I thank @Ghillie_Guide for setting me off in this important
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a lot of what annoyed me about the response to that thread was people saying "well im nd and have anxiety and i hate it!" bc they were hitting the
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People sometimes ask me if it was worth getting an autism diagnosis so late in life. Two years on I’m convinced it was, and this is why. #Thread #AllAutistics #AutisticElders#OlderAutistics#ActuallyAutistic
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#autism and authority - a thread about, well, autism and authority. Please share, as it may be useful to people outside of my followers. Thank you! /1 So this will
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Meet Stephen.Aged 15.3 secondary school placements. Described as aggressive, flying off the handle for no reason, huffy, hard to cajole, nothing works with him (its all on his terms), easily
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We talk about a lot on here how autism presents differently in women and girls. I've just been looking through old home videos from my family. To me, it's obvious
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#ActuallyAutistic friends, ive hit an absolute blank. I'm brainstorming all the ways in which autistic females are disadvantaged in comparison to autistic males. the only real thing I can think
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During and after my #autism assessment I discovered a whole myriad of things about me that were actually connected with being #autistic. One of these was needing time to think.
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rating things people have said upon learning I’m autistic but it gets progressively more unhinged as it goes on “Don’t you have a boyfriend/degree/job?”2/10no spice, bigoted but in a
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Repeating again, there is no external evidence that Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) actually works.Still seeing lots of posturing from certain ABA fans that those naughty autistic people are saying they
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I want to talk about this too...I do think people often miss the whole point of “arguing with anti-vaxxers”.I AM NOT TRYING TO CHANGE THE MINDS OF THE ANTIVAXXERS!But what
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