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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 ...

Take a look around to see more about us; what's coming up; and resources to learn more about Soteria houses and peer respites.

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…

Monotropism (a key feature of Autism) is a person's tendency to focus their attention on a small number of interests at any time, tending to miss things outside of this attention tunnel.

1021 likes, 49 comments. “Kind of crazy that we are gerting trained in diagnosing without even learning what Monotropism is…”

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1/9 Listening to autistic teenagers talk about their special interests has been an epic & joyful adventure. My MSc research=getting those voices heard. Many 'thank yous', above all to the teenagers involved, their families, & my own YP for the inspiration https://t.co/0ad2AcPRhZ pic.twitter.com/t47k4RiGRu— lisa chapman (@CommonSenseSLT) August 10, 2023

Injustice survives when "DEI-minded" people defend purely individualist solutions. I say, "#Antibias training alone can't eliminate institutional #racism";…

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This ground-breaking book provides the first detailed clinical analysis of the various manifestations of catatonia, shutdown and breakdown in autistic individuals, with a new assessment framework (ACE-S) and guidance on intervention and management strategies using a psycho-ecological approach. Based on Dr Amitta Shah's