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The Double Empathy Problem and Perceptions of an Autistic Employee in the Workplace by @KASzechy et al found that more autistic employees accurately interpret the behavior of an autistic employee than non-autistic people NEW FREE to Aug 30https://t.co/A6NHSMWmJr pic.twitter.com/qwqoYV9ybr— Autism In Adulthood (@AutismAdulthood) August 23, 2023

Although not a recognized clinical term, there is a phenomenon in the ADHD community known as “wait mode.” Wait mode refers to when you have time right now, but there is a scheduled eve…

People who criticize African American Vernacular English don't see that it shares grammatical structures with more "prestigious" languages.

Fergus Murray at the Scottish Autism Research Group 2023 Meeting If you care about the wellbeing of autistic people, you need to try to understand autism. If you want to understand autism, you need to understand monotropism. That’s true whether or not you believe (like me) that Monotropism is by far the closest thing we […]

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Most poorly planned movement work can be brought down by one question: What about disabled and elderly people?— @ImaniBarbarin@disabled.social (@Imani_Barbarin) August 20, 2023

Having just started the anthology Women from Another Planet? , I can tell that it's going to be full of topics I'm going to want to blog abo...

At the top of the world, the Inuit culture has developed a sophisticated way to sculpt kids' behavior without yelling or scolding. Could discipline actually be playful?

(Note: this post is about “deep burnout” – which is usually a huge, life-altering event which often takes a very long period of time to recover from. People can experience shorter term burnou…

Exploring similarities and differences between Autistic and OCD monotropic flow states. Can attention tunnels freeze and thoughts get stuck?

In my book The New Normal: Autistic musings on the threat of a broken society I have a chapter about Autistic social nature. Autistic people have widely been represented as being asocial, which is patently absurd. Autistic people have a rich and diverse social culture that has been ignored for a long time. "One of

We spoke to over 200 campaigners and reviewed 10 years of research on framing. Here are the five key lessons we learned...

From the perspective of the early 21st century, things look pretty grim. A deadly cocktail of crises engulf the people of planet Earth and all other forms of biotic life which share it: a geopoliti…

Ableism is what makes all other “isms” effective… White supremacy is the goal, ableism is the toolkit. pic.twitter.com/r3zpVhaDsA— @ImaniBarbarin@disabled.social (@Imani_Barbarin) August 14, 2023

From a 15% chronic absence rate, it's now over 25% nationwide and a shocking 48.6% in Alaska, per data compiled by Stanford's Thomas Dee in partnership with the AP.

Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.

Currently, educators lack longitudinal data measuring both the qualitative and quantitative outcomes of various educational interventions used with handicapped ...

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