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So Someone Told You You Might Be Autistic, huh?Start here.https://t.co/qdNIMlP7xo— 🇺🇦 sunflower seeds 🌻 (@mykola) July 13, 2022

Hey! Thanks for the love, Steve. Here are some other #ActuallyAutistic reads: I am enjoying @Sara_Rose_G’s Drama Queen. Sincerely, Your Autistic Child, Loud Hands. Letters to my Weird sisters by @JoanneLimburg https://t.co/jc5dwepRjH— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) July 14, 2022

So Someone Told You You Might Be Autistic, huh?Start here.https://t.co/qdNIMlP7xo— 🇺🇦 sunflower seeds 🌻 (@mykola) July 13, 2022

How lovely to see #Autistic trending on Twitter.Our reminder that autism = highly focused brains, often taking in a huge amount of sensory information...and with a different, but valid, way of communicating with others.https://t.co/ale6Npb4jF has actual modern research.— Ann Memmott PGC MA 🌈 (They/she) (@AnnMemmott) July 14, 2022

Pictured: An Autistic in its natural habitat, warning the others in the village of a danger that they can't recognize.In a healthy village they know to listen to the Autistic person even if they don't understand them, and they survive. https://t.co/RnSLBhlqrt— 🇺🇦 sunflower seeds 🌻 (@mykola) July 14, 2022

Yep, wasn’t until an autistic pal suggested I might be before I actually took my own suspicion seriously and started researching. Having validation and good resources made all the difference in the world. Share whenever you can, you just might save someone’s life - seriously https://t.co/uazXuFSUqu— TheMossySnail (@SnailMossy) July 14, 2022

In fact, school mindfulness lessons resulted in *worse* depressive symptoms and wellbeing scores for those adolescents who had elevated depressive symptoms at baseline – although these decreases were small and not considered clinically meaningful— Dr Lucy Foulkes (@lfoulkesy) July 13, 2022

I am truly awed by what @AutisticTyping and @notanautismmom have put together, along with essays by so many incredible Autistic advocates. If you want to read my full review, you may do so here: https://t.co/dPhko5MaWg— Brandi Thompson (@awesomebrandi) July 13, 2022

I was lucky enough to be able to preview a book written by Not An Autism Mom and Autistic Typing on autism!You can read the full review of "I Will Die On This Hill" at the link below -#ActuallyAutistic https://t.co/nQFg4oDykv— AutisticSciencePerson, MSc (@AutSciPerson) July 13, 2022

We are a group of interdisciplinary authors in neuro, psychological, behavioural, political and biological sciences: @sara_lil_plants, @siukityeung_res, @MamsMandrill ,@drdokovova, @JohnJJShaw ,@JennyMaiPhanPhD, @helenahhartmann, @flavio_azevedo_, @SammieTy— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

Autism, as we know, is not a mental health condition - but some end up in mental health settings because they are so depressed, so anxious after a lifetime of ill-treatment.And then because they are not dx as autistic, misdiagnosed with 'personality disorders' or psychosis.— Ann Memmott PGC MA 🌈 (They/she) (@AnnMemmott) July 13, 2022

#ActuallyAutistic pic.twitter.com/mCnl3iloU3— humanbeingawkward (@ZoeYork_) July 14, 2022

I've had so many odd conversations over the years, in my various roles for Mental Health services. Asking, 'So, how are you screening to identify undiagnosed autistic people?' usually results in a blank look. In the MH wards, undiagnosed autistic people may be the majority.— Ann Memmott PGC MA 🌈 (They/she) (@AnnMemmott) July 13, 2022

Since #Neurodiversity is a trending Twitter topic today, seems like a good time to mention my book NEUROQUEER HERESIES, which includes my foundational writings on the neurodiversity paradigm plus 120 pages of new material never published elsewhere. https://t.co/papQxtsruG pic.twitter.com/rF8zzUMwWK— Nick Walker (@WalkerSensei) July 13, 2022

If your autistic child suddenly explodes because their sandwich has been cut wrong, It's not the sandwich necessarily; it's a build up of things—and that sandwich was the last straw, the last thing they could control. @EDalmayne, at TPGA:https://t.co/jFWN1vC7t1 #Neurodiversity— Thinking Person's Guide To Autism (@thinkingautism) July 13, 2022

For #DisabilityPrideMonth here’s our new preprint on #Neurodiversity and Open Scholarship! We look at #ND, intersectionality, #SocialJustice & #UniversalDesign. Sharing lived experiences & solutions for more equitable inclusion of ND people in academia!👉https://t.co/FcQoppTbvD pic.twitter.com/vhF0vxy4xI— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

#Neurodiversity is the variation of the human brain regarding movement, sociability & learning, etc. It can be viewed as a biological fact, movement and/or framework for understanding variation in human neurobiology. pic.twitter.com/O0Daf9LRr5— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

#Neurodiversity includes neurotypical & neurodivergent people. A person is neurodivergent when their neurology diverges from the neurological majority. Examples of neurodivergence: dyslexia, dyspraxia, OCD/C, personality disorders/conditions, autism, ADHD/C, Tourette’s and tics. pic.twitter.com/swgenhJ4i1— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

More examples of neurodivergence: Dyscalculia, developmental coordination disorder/condition, stuttering and cluttering, developmental language disorder/condition, bipolar disorder/condition. pic.twitter.com/qdLj6q5338— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

Why is #Neurodiversity important?ND is rarely considered in justice, equality, or diversity. In academia ND is often the subject of research by NT researchers, raising questions of biased views and misunderstanding by NT researchers (e.g. Double Empathy Problem, @milton_damien).— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

One bias is interpreting strengths or differences as weaknesses (see inspiring work by @autismcrisis @GernsbacherLAB) and overemphasis on weaknesses.— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

The social movement to promote #Neurodiversity shares similar core values to #OpenScholarship: accessibility, fairness, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Despite the overlap though there isn’t much ND representation within #OpenScholarship. We want to change that. pic.twitter.com/uljt5IIw2R— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

#Intersectionality should be considered in neurodiversity, Open Scholarship & social justice work. The intersectionality framework (e.g. Crenshaw) recognises the complexity of us existing in multiple overlapping identity spheres (e.g. race, (dis)ability, wealth, sexuality). pic.twitter.com/JAKTf5uwn8— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

We propose that in adopting #OpenScholarship alongside Universal Design for Learning (UDL) practices, academia can become a place where ND staff and students can be supported in their lives and instead of being the subject of research, can be active participants in the process.— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

We also included a glossary of more than 30 key terms related to neurodiversity, Open Scholarship, social justice & Universal Design for Learning (e.g ableism, neuroqueer, identity first and participatory research)! With these in bold/italics in text at first mention in preprint. pic.twitter.com/jJJ96nphOf— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

We determined authorship order using the Academic Wheel of Privilege (adapted from @sylviaduckworth). We examined our degree of privilege/marginalization in academia and society through a scoring system. Authors with fewer “privileges points” were prioritized in the author list. pic.twitter.com/YyeDT4Bx5m— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

For #DisabilityPrideMonth here’s our new preprint on #Neurodiversity and Open Scholarship! We look at #ND, intersectionality, #SocialJustice & #UniversalDesign. Sharing lived experiences & solutions for more equitable inclusion of ND people in academia!👉https://t.co/FcQoppTbvD pic.twitter.com/vhF0vxy4xI— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

#Neurodiversity is the variation of the human brain regarding movement, sociability & learning, etc. It can be viewed as a biological fact, movement and/or framework for understanding variation in human neurobiology. pic.twitter.com/O0Daf9LRr5— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022

#Neurodiversity includes neurotypical & neurodivergent people. A person is neurodivergent when their neurology diverges from the neurological majority. Examples of neurodivergence: dyslexia, dyspraxia, OCD/C, personality disorders/conditions, autism, ADHD/C, Tourette’s and tics. pic.twitter.com/swgenhJ4i1— FORRT (@FORRTproject) July 14, 2022