Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a debilitating, chronic disorder and efficacy rates of current PTSD treatments are underwhelming. There is a critical need for innovative approaches. We provide an overview of trauma and PTSD and cite literature providing...
The Assessment and Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Autistic People: A Systematic Review
Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - Adverse life events and mental health conditions are unfortunately common amongst autistic adults and children; this may present a...
Autism Research—What’s New in February — Neurodiverse Connection
This research roundup picks out some of the current big debates on autistic lives, and showcases new and important research from teams and academics working within the field.
Literacy in nonspeaking autistic people - Vikram K Jaswal, Andrew J Lampi, Kayden M Stockwell, 2024
Autistic people who cannot speak risk being underestimated. Their inability to speak, along with other unconventional behaviors and mannerisms, can give rise to...
Evidence-based educational movements are actually games
Around 2012ish, a new movement rode into the UK (school) educational scene. It came with the banner of "evidence-based", to counter the previous movement. I'm not writing to contend whether the movement was right or wrong, but to offer a perspective of what it may be. My view differs to the major slogans of the movement as it took force. Let this movement be called EduCogSci. It was claimed to be a movement of objective reason, empowering teachers with the science of cognition and the evidence
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I am happy for you to have my books ( plus other generous authors) to use them in your work or play with very special children and adults. Just remember that many were written years ago when there was hardly any information or research around. What education there was, had to
As I wrote a year ago in The Rot Economy (and as I argued on the first episode of my podcast Better Offline), I believe that both public and private markets have become decoupled from the concept of "good business," ruled instead by a hunger for the eternal growth of
"VC qanon" and the radicalization of the tech tycoons - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
"it's impossible to overstate the degree to which many big tech CEOs and venture capitalists are being radicalized by living within their own cultural and social bubble."
But, since the first step to fixing any problem is being able to clearly identify it, I'm gratified to hear more people recognizing the social and cultural factors that are shaping the otherwise-inexplicable choices of some of the most powerful people in the business world. Now here's hoping that those outside the bubble can gather together and organize an effective counter-response to the increasing dangers and harms posed by the radicalization of the loudest voices in tech.
Crip Up the Kitchen is a comprehensive guide and recipe collection that brings the economy and satisfaction of home cooking to disabled and neurodivergent cooks.
I recently saw some philosophers discussing – well, more dismissing – the concept of the ‘neurotypical’. This is something I’ve seen a few times now. Personally I think the term i…
Life defies the dehumanising cut-off points of the bell curve
The global mono-cult pretends that all aspects of life can be categorised and understood in terms of normality – by the hump of the bell curve. But the living planet does not conform to anthropocen…
Celebrating the infinitely diverse ways of being human
The objectives of the neurodiversity and disability rights movements overlap significantly with the struggles of indigenous peoples. All people are fully human. Neurodiversity Celebration Week is n…
A Spectrum of Understanding: A Qualitative Exploration of Autistic Adults' Understandings and Perceptions of Friendship(s) | Autism in Adulthood
Background: Previous research has often documented that friendship is an area of difficulty for autistic people, however this may be caused by a neurotypical understanding of friendship. The current study aimed at adopting a more inclusive account of friendship, involving an autistic participant group representing a range of genders and communication preferences while exploring the following question—What are autistic adults' perceptions of friendships? Method: Participants (n = 20) were interviewed using their preferred method of communication (speaking and non-speaking) during 2021–2022. Results: The results showed that three main themes emerged under an overarching theme of A Spectrum of Understanding: Identity with Others, Sharing Value, and Shared Presence. The inclusive approaches used in the current study allowed under-researched autistic groups such as non-speaking autistic people and autistic people who identify as non-binary to participate in meaningful research. Conclusions: The study offers a new perspective on the Double Empathy theory, suggesting it may be helpful to conceptualize it as a continuum of neuro-cultural learning rather than a distinctive binary centered on an autistic-allistic misunderstanding. Increased understanding of friendships in autistic groups will help to increase awareness of social belonging and support that can protect against poor mental health outcomes.
The title of the article is What Was New Atheism?. The use of the past tense is noted. The label was coined in 2006 by Gary Wolf in Wired, and we spent the next decade sort of agreeing that there i…
A commentary on children's books about autism: What messages do they send about neurodiversity?
Children's books about autism have the potential to promote neurodiversity, but they also have the potential to (unintentionally) work against it. It is important to make informed and individualized ...
The Tweedy Mutant on X: "Ok so we've all heard of the Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn trauma responses, but on behalf of Autistic people I would like to gently suggest a fifth: Inform." / X
Ok so we've all heard of the Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn trauma responses, but on behalf of Autistic people I would like to gently suggest a fifth: Inform.— The Tweedy Mutant (@the_tweedy) February 25, 2024
review empire of normality - Psychiatrie en Filosofie
Capitalism places everyone, neurotypical as well as neurodivergent, in a ’double bind’ of either being valued as a worker and thus exploited, or being categorized as surplus and thus discriminated against.