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There's different ways for other people to think about autistic people. Understanding those different ways is important. It explains why some anti-autism groups have become so powerful and how they
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Oh my.There's a new paper out. Make yourselves comfy. Thread.Top team who do many fine things.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32691993/ but there's a mystery."Many autistic yp exhibit..behavior difficulties, characterized
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https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default-source/improving-care/better-mh-policy/college-reports/college-report-cr228.pdf?sfvrsn=c64e10e3_2 New report out from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, about autism. Quick highlights:"It is reco
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I want to talk about missed diagnosis, and autism.A number of teams first diagnose a particular child in a family. A child whose behaviour is very noticeable in some way,
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Are you a GP?Do you yearn to know more about the 1 in 30 fabulous autistic people who attend your Practice, or the 1 in 30 fabulous GPs & other
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"But if Cummings *had* got an autistic child, he should have been able to travel 260 miles with ill wife. His child is important".Let's look at the numbers. It's back-of-envelope
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What fresh nonsense is this?That the reason Mr Cummings drove his sick wife and child 260 miles is because the child is autistic?This will be a thread.I'm autistic. I am
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So Mr Cummings has the right to break lockdown because of an allegedly autistic son? Some 2000 autistic children & young people are locked away from their parents in care
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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-018-3710-y#Abs1 Next up for today's 'oh dear' award, this new paper on whether autistic children are better than others at detecting smells.Now, let's start by thinking about what a goo
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If you're autistic, you can't have nice things.That's basically what lies behind the rants at autistic people from some, saying how DARE we say something positive about ourselves. How DARE
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"But autistic people are likely to be in care for life!" Let's have another gallop past some real info.https://files.digital.nhs.uk/publicationimport/pub16xxx/pub16133/comm-care-stat-act-eng-2013-14-fin-rep.pdf is community care info fo
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Autism and respect for our life story.I want to talk about this.So many autistic people are treated as laboratory experiments. Zoo exhibits. Providers of data about ourselves so that people
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