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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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Lauren Spiro – March 28, 2023 This article is an invitation to open our perceptions to other approaches of supporting people through emotional crisis. Rather than pathologizing behavior we ca…

The peer respite/Soteria house model responds to emotional crisis with compassion and curiosity, rather than pathologizing.

In 1968, just two years after the Black Panther Party (BPP) was founded in Oakland, California, the Party’s headquarters mandated that all chapters inaugurate “serve the people” programs. Community

Molly Toal, Lancashire Wildlife Trust The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside (otherwise known as LWT) have been running their Forest School Project in Manchester since 2015 and in Liverpool since 2017. Project officers work with urban schools for a year, delivering free Forest School sessions, offering accredited Level 3 Forest School Leadership training…