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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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Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

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

In this commentary, Dr. Bunny McFadden talks about the financial implications of supporting herself as a person who has ADHD. This commentary is part of

What is disability policy? Health care, benefits, education, housing, long-term supports, the Americans with Disabilities Act, inclusion: these are all

Singer et al. (2022) argue that the current lexical shift within autism research towards more neutral terminology hinders accurate scientific description of the wide range of autistic experiences, particularly within clinical and medical contexts. In this Letter to the Editor, we present an examination and criticism of these claims. This letter is authored and co-signed by a diverse group of autistic researchers, scholars, clinicians, and self-advocates with a wide range of clinical presentation and support needs, as well as non-autistic researchers, scholars, clinicians, and loved ones of autistic people.

Remember what happened with the Tower of Babel? Same type of deal.

Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But in a searing, “cogent critique” (Library Journal), Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal that many of these so-called reforms actually weave in new strands of punishment and control, bringing new populations who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment under physical control by the state.

This article offers a critical review of the literature on how race played into the historical development of pedagogical progressivism in the late-19th and ear...