Tweets

This is not a story I have told all in one place, but I want readers to understand the full context of my decision to leave in its relation to our nation’s destructive and divisive cultural forever war.— Nick Covington (@CovingtonEDU) May 15, 2022

"It's not just about autism awareness training, it's about making it ok to be weird". @DrAmyPearson As a fellow weird, another example of how removing systems of oppression benefit lots of groups.— Kristen Bottema-Beutel (@KristenBott) May 14, 2022

@MxOolong your concept is travelling 😊— TheAutisticAdvocate (@KieranRose7) May 14, 2022

What is surprising to me is the underestimation of autistic sociality (and therefore impact of marginalisation and loneliness et al.) - these findings should not come as any surprise but they do to many. That is the 'problem'. #INSAR2022 @liz_pellicano— Damian Milton (@milton_damian) May 13, 2022

Couldn't be more humbled for having @DrAmyPearson as both a friend and colleague. Immensely proud of her (if that's not too weird a thing to say) & of having the opportunity to be working on SUCH important research as #InterpersonalVictimisation & #AutisticMasking#INSAR2022— TheAutisticAdvocate (@KieranRose7) May 14, 2022

Goffman was also our primary source for creating the Stigmatized Identity Framework-General which we applied to first-hand voices of Autists to create the Stigmatized Identity Framework-Autism #INSAR2022 poster # 506.102!— Dr. T. A. Meridian McDonald (Neurodivergent) (@T_A_M_McDonald) May 14, 2022

Holy moly - @milton_damian demonstrating the double empathy problem by quoting his school teachers who inaccurately described his academic engagement #INSAR2022 pic.twitter.com/EnGY3djfdp— Kristen Bottema-Beutel (@KristenBott) May 13, 2022

Autism research is a systemic source of ableism. @DrMBotha giving multiple, damning examples of researchers dehumanizing the autistic people they claim to want to help. #INSAR22— Kristen Bottema-Beutel (@KristenBott) May 14, 2022

#INSAR2022 Botha: ABLEISM in Autism Research is a Major Factor of stigma in autism.#ActuallyAutistic Yes!!!!#neuromarginalization— Dr. T. A. Meridian McDonald (Neurodivergent) (@T_A_M_McDonald) May 14, 2022

RIGOR IS IMPOSSIBLE WITHOUT ETHICS. @DrMBotha #INSAR2022— Kristen Bottema-Beutel (@KristenBott) May 14, 2022

I have CHILLS after the #INSAR2022 panel on the stigmatization and marginalization of autistic people & ableism in society/research. SO inspired by all of this work & know it will continue to inform my research.this should be mandatory to watch! we ALL need to do better.— Rachel Rivera (@PsyRachelRivera) May 14, 2022

"Structural dehumanisation is the failure to measure harm in intervention studies." @DrMBotha #INSAR2022— Dr. Kelly Coburn (they/them) (@KCoburnSLP) May 14, 2022

We’re presenting posters at #INSAR2022 and finding that a large proportion of US-based autism researchers don’t seem to have basic familiarity with SSI, SSDI, Medicaid, and HCBS waivers, which all provide needed supports to autistic people— 𝙻𝚊𝚞𝚛𝚎𝚗 𝙱𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚙 (@DrLaurenBishop) May 14, 2022

A wonderful reception to our #INSAR2022 panel, and two papers accepted in one week 🥳 (one on victimisation, and one on how video games can facilitate autonomy and joy with autistic young people).— Amy Pearson (@DrAmyPearson) May 14, 2022

We don’t talk enough about the ableism in transphobic circles enough but it is real, and it’s not just because a lot of autistic people are transgender (though that’s a big part). I wrote about it a little bit in my book but not enough. https://t.co/sVOH46OhDh— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) May 14, 2022

Prof. Dr. Margaret Price encouraging everyone in the audience both on site and online to do whatever they need (move, stretch, cameras off/on etc.) to improve accessibility. Now talking about collective accountability. #ActivismAndAcademia22 #DisabilityStudies— Jennifer S. Henke, PhD ⚓ (@jenniferhenkeHB) May 14, 2022

‘The conception of autism that rests solely on the medical and caregiver-informed model is now outdated and needs to be re-centered around the autistic person’s experience…we should take autistic accounts of abuse seriously.’ https://t.co/P9oJT1QvPz— Educators_VS_ABA (@EDUvsABA) May 14, 2022

The problems associated with ABA run very deep. It is a human rights violation to continue to ignore and discount the voices of Autistic people about deeply traumatising and harmful "therapies" such as ABA https://t.co/ogeI3e55x9. https://t.co/rXFUNYWPEq— Jorn Bettin (@jornbettin) May 14, 2022

Do your employer and co-workers know you’re autistic?— Ky (@plscallmeky) May 12, 2022

As a Deaf person, I can confirm that we do not know the difference between yawning and screaming. They both look the same to us.— Sarah x (@ambideafkid) May 11, 2022

am i the only one who doesn't know their blood type like did i miss an email or smth i really feel like i should know my blood type— lazy perfectionist (@grumpyshrubbery) May 11, 2022

ADHD is: never feeling like a proper grown up— Geraint Evans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@GeraintWorks) May 12, 2022

Yesterday I was sad, today I'm fuming. No one should be allowed to ruin this precious world.— Dr. Elizabeth Sawin (@bethsawin) May 12, 2022

the ADHD urge to sigh constantly because you forget to breathe when intensely focused on something— Dani Donovan (@danidonovan) May 12, 2022

The neuromajority has long assumed that autistic info dumping is motivated by a need to show off one’s knowledge yet it is actually motivated by a genuine deep interest in the information being shared that drives #ActuallyAutistic people to info dump— Kira Young (@KiraYoung4) May 12, 2022

Pleased to explore the politics of #neurodiversity with @liz_pellicano in a new (open-access) commentary for Human Development: https://t.co/W9lMlYguQe— Ari Ne'eman (@aneeman) May 11, 2022

PBIS depends on a fatally flawed understanding of human motivation and reinforces schools as a behaviorist Skinner Box for children. No thanks. https://t.co/HAYa7whXcf pic.twitter.com/JbrM1BJa6c— Nick Covington (@CovingtonEDU) May 8, 2022

For anyone at our #AGNHealthData talk last night wanting to know more about our amazing @DoctorsAutistic research lead @Autistic_Doc check out this fab profile 👇 https://t.co/GnGQz3Vhg0— Mary Doherty 🇺🇦 (@AutisticDoctor) May 5, 2022