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What is Monotropism? I discuss the term and theory coined by Dinah Murray, talk about a questionnaire for measureing monotropic traits, and discuss a review ...

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Betsy Selvam, an autistic artist, who has her artworks and writings published in various international organisations, talks to DT Next about her Asperger’s Syndrome, how she found solace in the...

Designing filtering, collaboration, thinking, and learning tools for the next 200 years The focus of this research programme, which has been running since 2006, consists of local applications of th…

Trauma recovery is heavy but for me it has become lighter over time. Every day I feel lighter, a bit more myself, closer to actualisation. Then the doom comes. There’s not always a trigger, o…

65K likes, 1,930 comments - queersurgeon on January 6, 2024: "A brief discussion of regret after gender-affirming surgery and why this is not a valid metric of..."

New research shows that return-to-office mandates don’t play any role in a company’s financial performance, but do have negative side effects for its workforce.

Society's ability to collectively address global challenges will require efforts to include diverse voices, perspectives, and epistemologies. Building on critical design, which positions these chal...

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#N95s4UCSF: Call to Action   I’m alive, bitches! My recent column in Teen Vogue about the surge and its impact on me as a high risk disabled person became a terrifying reality when I ha…

Do you want real change? Within human societies Autistic people tend to be the amongst the first who point out toxic competitive behaviours. We live in a world where the cultural immune system of human society, i.e. Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent people are being systematically weakened, marginalised, and disabled.

The diagnostic criteria for autism cover a broad and diverse umbrella of people, and they obscure the Autistic lived experience of toxic cultural norms that are ultimately detrimental for all peopl…

What is an Open Space Technology meeting? Open Space Technology has been defined as: * a simple, powerful way to catalyze effective working ...

Dozens of neurodiversity-affirming therapy goals and links to articles, and free resources for ally SLPs and OTs. %

Neuroaffirming care highlights the idea that these differences aren’t problems to be solved but part of natural neurological variation.

How a watched pot loses the desire to boil.

The smallest unit of learning is a feedback loop. Power is the privilege of not needing to learn. The dynamic process of life is best understood in relational terms. At human scale, all healthy rel…

OCD and ADHD Dual Diagnosis, Misdiagnosis and the Cognitive ‘Cost’ of Obsessions by Amitai Abramovitch, PhD, & Andrew Mittelman Dr. Amitai Abramovitch is a neuropsychologist and a Research Fellow at the OCD and Related Disorders Program at Massachusetts General Hospital

Due to similar manifestations, some authors have proposed a potential correlation between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). This link has long been recognized and debated, with some authors arguing that these disorders frequently occur comorbid but distinct while others believe they are part of the same spectrum. The aim of our study was to explore the prevalence and correlates of autistic traits in 55 OCD patients and 55 matched controls and to assess possible autistic dimensions predictive of higher OCD symptoms. All participants were assessed with the Obsessive–Compulsive Spectrum-Short Version (OBS-SV) and the Adult Autism Subthreshold Spectrum (AdAS Spectrum). The OCD group scored significantly higher in both questionnaires. Total OBS-SV scores and domains were significantly correlated with all AdAS Spectrum domains and total score. The AdAS Spectrum total, Verbal Communication and Inflexibility and adherence to routine domain scores were significant positive predictors of higher OBS-SV scores. Lastly, when two clusters of subjects (high and low autism) were determined, Inflexibility and adherence to routine domain presented the greatest influence in forming the clusters. Our findings support the association between OCD and autistic traits in the adult population, supporting the hypothesis of a neurodevelopmental basis for these psychiatric conditions.

It is impossible to recover from Autistic burnout within the established institutional landscape. The emergence of ecologies of care is the emergence of a beautiful diversity of human scale cultura…

Social power is best understood as a highly addictive and socially corrosive drug. Meaningful education in the era of the sixth mass extinction event has to focus on the majority of the human popul…

The concept of a ‘human nature’ or ‘human natures’ retains a central role in theorizing about the human experience. In Homo sapiens it is clear that we have a suite of capacities generated via our evolutionary past, and present, and a flexible capacity to ...

Epistemic Access in Psychology at the APA’s Division 24 2022 Midwinter Gathering by the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Fri 11 March 2 pm EST / Fri 11 March 8 pm CET / Sa…

There is a long tradition of research into autistic people’s executive function skills. Yet, despite decades of research on EF in autism, the existing literatur...

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