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After spending a month in the ICU, Alice Wong relied on caregivers to have a normal life. She reflects on that experience, arguing that the devaluation and lack of investment in care work is an issue that needs to be addressed.

Are you a bionic reader? A binaural beats listener? Taking sides in the brown noise vs. white noise debate? Perhaps you’re still seeking that magic productivity tool to hack your ADHD brain. Here, ADDitude readers share their experience with emerging focus tools.

Brown noise is a low-frequency background sound that helps people with ADHD focus and feel calm. Its millions of views on TikTok suggest that many are eager to know the science behind this psychophysical phenomenon.

“Our Fear of Video Games Harms Children. There's so much around which tells parents to be scared of video games. We're reminded about 'gaming disorder' and told our children are at risk. Having strict screen limits sometimes feels like a marker for 'good parent'. 1/”

It isn't that education conferences aren't needed, but “I’ve heard this already” workshops and marketing ploys are a waste of time. Instead, our resources could be better spent expanding our professional understanding of related concepts to what we’ve already mastered. Published by Human Restoration Project, a 501(c)3 organization restoring humanity to education.

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Abstract. Whilst theorists in physics have been striving for a ‘theory of everything’ to explain the interconnections of matter across time and space (Hawking,

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BEAUSlide Deck Link: https://www.beautiful.ai/player/-NOBurvidos_Y782Fgd3 Time What Why Materials 5 min Opening Introduction Shifting the Dialogue To center ourselves, our needs, and our dispositions as we transition into the learning space 15 min Holism and Learner-Centered Pe...

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““You’re Making It Worse” @naomicfisher   When a child is struggling at school and become reluctant to attend, their parents are given advice.  Most of it is about how to ignore their child’s distress.  1/”

“We really should make #DREADpirate a thing! Difficulty Regulating Emotion and Attention Divergence, #DREAD for short. Previously labeled as #ADHD by some association full of neurotypicals. Since most of us dread pretty much everything, it's ironically accurate.”

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1. When being interviewed for a potential job, adults on the autistic spectrum may appear as one of two extremes: 1) overly confident with an almost false persona or 2) extremely nervous and apolog…

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List of daily impressions from the autism spectrum. Brief, incomplete, subjectively accurate.

I have extensively explored my Autistic relationship with addiction thus far. I have considered and lamented the inappropriate treatment services, the suffering, and rejoiced in the moment that I came out the other side. I have listed numerous reasons that contributed to my active addiction, but what I have not done is really drive home

“Neurodiversity at Work” is a line in the sand, from which we will not be going back. It marks the dividing line between neurodiversity as a pathologized, disorder-based concept and its arrival into the world of equity, diversity and inclusion.

The specter of long COVID, with its mysterious cause, no obvious cure and an unknown duration, haunts millions and millions of people. In this report, we hear from some of those who are suffering with it and William Brangham speaks with Dr. David Putrino of Mount Sinai Health in New York about the varied symptoms people are dealing with.

a long winter crip survival guide for pandemic year 4/forever by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Tina “constant tt” Zavitsanos shareable link: https://www.tinyurl.com/longwintersurvival intro: surviving the forever winter it’s panini year 4, and a lot of us are getting increasingly desper...

More than 1,000 Times contributors sent an open letter on the paper's biases reporting on trans issues. The paper's response is part of the problem

Autistic people face many challenges entering the workforce, for example, during job interviews where performance is reliant on particular social skills. To be ...

“In anticipation of upcoming publication in Autism Research, we have released our accepted response to Singer et al. as a preprint. A thread about the main points. 1/ https://t.co/qXDuSVePcb”

What if we changed the way we think about service learning, community service, and work-based learning? GUEST COLUMN | by Michele Pitman Students across the U.S. are encouraged to and sometimes required to “go into the community to serve others.” In some private schools, students carry the mission of the school into the community. And in […]

In this commentary, neurodivergent psychology writer Alex Ashley Fox takes an honest look at the economic and emotional tolls of autistic masking. This