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Incidentally, if you are new to the fine world of autistic people, you may need to know there are rival groups with different ways of thinking about autism. I shall

Nonautistic people don't have a great track-record of guessing, about autism."Their social skills are broken" (Ooops, new research shows ours are generally simply different, and as effective)/ "They move in

A research paper, from 2006. It's about buildings and autistic people.Are you sitting comfortably? Then here we go... (thread).It's set in a residential school, with some 50 young pupils.They wanted

Thank you to the autistic people who voted. It asked if sensory overload was a possible reason for needing life to be predictable. After crunching numbers to take out 'just

Society chooses how to disadvantage most autistic people.Let's take our supposed 'social deficits'.For decades, society wouldn't consider that our way of communicating was different, not broken. Now we have the

Today I would like to revisit the 'independence' myth.I've just read an ABA enthusiast saying that 'many' autistic people won't be 'independent'.No-one is.It has always been a myth, this independence

The results are in. A short thread. Thank you for contributing to this in various ways, including important comments under it.First, it's an informal Twitter poll, as we can see,

"Social Responsiveness Scale" (SRS). I want to take another gallop through this extremely strange questionnaire that has been used to prove 'deficits' in autistic people. Does it?Here we go...and I've

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1073191120964564 Well well. The Empathy Quotient, the most popular measure of autistic alleged 'lack' of empathy, isn't fit for purpose, this says. People just assumed it was.In fact,

Question.Why are the Medical Profession panicked if someone knows the right word for something that's wrong with them?I ask as a professional in a different Profession.If one of my clients

Reminder for those wondering what my position is, re autism.I'm autistic.I'm a parent of a fab autistic son who has higher support needs and works with me and our team.For

Today I would like to talk about this recent research paper.https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-020-02577-1It's about Positive Behaviour Support, and whether it works to stop 'behaviour'.You'll se