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I want disabled students to be able to dream up whatever professions they want. And yet I don't know a single job sector where disabled people are valued, accommodated, and granted flexibility. Apart from working for ourselves, I don't see any spaces tackling ableism.— Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD (@Nicole_Lee_Sch) December 6, 2022

Any of my #ActuallyAutistic friends a parent?I have a 4 year old daughter.I don’t see much #Autistic people having kids.— Taylor (@SocAwkGirl) December 5, 2022

Smoking Secrets https://t.co/PAoDbAp1er— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) December 5, 2022

"Kinetic Cognitive Style" is a new way of thinking about ADHD. This guide will help you understand Kinetic/ADHD ways of being.https://t.co/l3k1zqUVvs#ADHD #KCS #KineticCognitiveStyle #neurodiversity #neurodivergent— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) December 5, 2022

/1 Why teachers need to understand https://t.co/upL4zlBPl3 🧵based on https://t.co/kAOsTEuxyB @stimpunks an autistic kid at school is likely to be wrenched out of their attention tunnel multiple times every day, each time leading to disorientation and deep discomfort @MrTs_NQTs— lisa chapman (@CommonSenseSLT) December 4, 2022

/1 Why teachers need to understand https://t.co/upL4zlBPl3 🧵based on https://t.co/kAOsTEuxyB @stimpunks an autistic kid at school is likely to be wrenched out of their attention tunnel multiple times every day, each time leading to disorientation and deep discomfort @MrTs_NQTs— lisa chapman (@CommonSenseSLT) December 4, 2022

/2 This is why school environments can be so stressful for many autistic students. Avoiding this distress👉you may have an easier time with your autistic students: try entering into their attention tunnel when you can, rather than tugging them out of it @MxOolong @thewoodbug— lisa chapman (@CommonSenseSLT) December 4, 2022

/3 Parallel play is a powerful tool for this; start where the child is, show interest in what they’re focused on. If you do need to pull them out of whatever they’re focusing on, it’s best to give them a bit of time. https://t.co/tcmldoAhZH @SaskiaGrassie @eyfs4m @RCSLTLearn— lisa chapman (@CommonSenseSLT) December 4, 2022

/4 learning about other #ActuallyAutistic love languages will equally support in the classroom. https://t.co/YcVNrI2yw9 @LittlePuddins ❤️#FlipTheNarrative thinking @ReachoutASC @neuroteachers @DrChrisMooreEP— lisa chapman (@CommonSenseSLT) December 4, 2022

“It’s okay to be so turbo.”—Amy Taylor of Amyl and the SniffersWe agree.It’s Okay to Be So Turbo: Get Kinetic With Amyl and the Sniffershttps://t.co/TjaehQHPtA#music #punk #neurodiversity #ADHD #KCS #KineticCognitiveStyle— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) December 3, 2022

New glossary entry: Co-regulation“Co-regulation is when we complete the stress cycle with the support of a safe enough person.”—Trauma Geekhttps://t.co/9qPqmNaai8#neurodiversity #neurodivergent #stress #trauma #co-regulation #coregulation #PolyvagalTheory— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) December 3, 2022

We're autistic. You probably believe some wrong things about us. Myths, misconceptions, & misguided awareness campaigns overwhelm & erase the actual lived experiences of autistic people. Here is what we’d like you to know about us, autism, and our needs.https://t.co/sgbKs5aTTu— Stimpunks (@stimpunks) December 3, 2022

We believe in REAL coproduction, so have worked with our community to create 'Our Key Principles When Supporting Autistic Young People'.We think they are really important, so have made them available for anyone to use/ read/ share.Find them here:https://t.co/wKOp1TxPQ0 pic.twitter.com/PciPvwPQWz— Spectrum Gaming (@Spectrum0Gaming) December 1, 2022

So excited to collaborate again with @emily_ladau on the 2022 #Disability Holiday #GiftGuide! Check it out to support disabled-owned businesses this holiday season! #DHGG #DHGG22 https://t.co/Ui2e1ymjEB #Entrepreneurship— Dr. Kate Caldwell (@cycleberry) November 30, 2022

This will kill so many people. What is he thinking?! https://t.co/e8Bhh7CEwL— Imani Barbarin, MAGC | Crutches&Spice ♿️ (@Imani_Barbarin) November 29, 2022

Medicalizing poverty and public abandonment isn’t a real shift from criminalization. It’s another, ostensibly more benign face of control and police power. We must refuse crisis mentalities and coercion; invest in crisis prevention via bottom-up systems of public support instead.— Eric Reinhart (@_Eric_Reinhart) November 29, 2022

As someone who works in emergency and inpatient psychiatry, a decade of ethnographic and clinical experience leads me to believe that the vast majority of psychiatric crises—I’d estimate over 80%—are the products of community-level care system failures and are wholly preventable.— Eric Reinhart (@_Eric_Reinhart) November 29, 2022

We need to invest in actual care systems—eg, guaranteed housing, addiction treatment when needed, a robust community health and support worker corps, etc—that prevent crisis rather than continually investing further in police-oriented crisis models that don’t address root causes.— Eric Reinhart (@_Eric_Reinhart) November 29, 2022

A new multidisciplinary review of 360 sources shows that incentive programs promote unethical behavior: https://t.co/aAXwdlL713. But rejiggering the programs won't prevent this; the problem is inherent to extrinsic inducements (i.e., trying to control people with rewards).— Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn) November 30, 2022

1/3 One reason I’m disturbed by the trend for education research to be conducted by economists is that the kind of psychology in which mainstream economics is rooted — indeed, that it takes on faith — is a rusty Skinnerian behaviorism that most psychologists outgrew long ago.— Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn) December 1, 2022

2/3 Not only do economists have trouble imagining any solutions other than manipulation with extrinsic inducements, they inevitably take an aerial view of schooling, looking mostly at standardized test scores in huge data sets to determine whether a given intervention “worked.”— Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn) December 1, 2022

3/3 Moreover, economists, along with politicians and corporate executives, tend to see the purpose of education in monetary terms; it’s valued primarily for what it contributes to the GDP, with children conceptualized as future workers and schooling framed as an “investment.”— Alfie Kohn (@alfiekohn) December 1, 2022

Psychiatry must stop allowing itself to be used as a sanitizing alibi for the police state. Doctors in NYC must organize to tell the mayor enough with his medicofascist fantasies. Invest in communities, not in their institutionalization. https://t.co/JzdhGJmxmU— Eric Reinhart (@_Eric_Reinhart) November 29, 2022