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Since people are talking about Bob's Burgers,I just want to say that Season 12, Ep. 21 and 22 are autistic masterpieces.Like, that storyline hit a little too hard, just sayin'.— AutisticSciencePerson, MSc (@AutSciPerson) July 13, 2022

'Stairs in school would be much better with rough grips on their edges to help my feet know where the step finishes'. ❤ this insight. Suggestions for school environmental adaptions, coproduced with autistic CYPs would be a cool masters project @ReachoutASC @mum2aspergirl— lisa chapman (@CommonSenseSLT) July 12, 2022

Yesterday our live writing sessions around difficulty attending school begun, and we are filled with excitement! Over 20 autistic young people (most of whom do not currently attend school) shared their experiences of 'Emotionally Based School Avoidance'. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/c8HrkUgTzu— Spectrum Gaming (@Spectrum0Gaming) July 14, 2022

From the commissioned report https://t.co/1VyBfEBeAv"... a hospital that screens all admissions suggests that 60% of children and young people admitted ..may be autistic".Screen all admissions. Seriously. Saves prescribing the wrong treatment & causing disasters.— Ann Memmott PGC MA 🌈 (They/she) (@AnnMemmott) July 13, 2022

Useful new study from some big names in research. https://t.co/cDCcs3YvyQ which looks at lower quality of life and those who are likely to be autistic/ADHD. A main recommendation in it is that mental health services routinely screen for both things.Entirely agree.— Ann Memmott PGC MA 🌈 (They/she) (@AnnMemmott) July 13, 2022

🧵Since the Dobbs Decision was issued and state abortion bans have taken effect, people with disabilities and chronic health conditions have been suddenly denied access to medications they'd used for years to manage their symptoms and treat flares. 1/4 #BansOffOurBodies— Maria Town (@maria_m_town) July 14, 2022

A weak, watered down version of alt text reminders with no real teeth. A prop to demonstrate to the world that they are, in fact, doing something! It looks great to the ableds without inconveniencing them. It makes no material improvement as implemented.This, after TWO YEARS.— Katie Mixtochtli - use alt text (@Conundrum9999) July 14, 2022

Yesterday our live writing sessions around difficulty attending school begun, and we are filled with excitement! Over 20 autistic young people (most of whom do not currently attend school) shared their experiences of 'Emotionally Based School Avoidance'. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/c8HrkUgTzu— Spectrum Gaming (@Spectrum0Gaming) July 14, 2022

This is important: A carefully-designed, well-powered trial has found that teaching mindfulness in schools does not reduce depressive symptoms (CES-D), social-emotional-behavioural functioning (SDQ) or wellbeing (WEMWBS) in 11-13 year olds (N=8376)https://t.co/9UvBqT7BO2— Dr Lucy Foulkes (@lfoulkesy) July 13, 2022

the autistic urge to rot in bed all day because you've never actually gotten the time you need to recover from burnout so now you live life mostly in a couch-potato state but you also have responsibilities so sometimes you do things feeling distant from reality— ˚⋆◦˚pixie cherub˚◦⋆˚ (she|her) (@_faeriedust_) July 13, 2022

If you believe as we do that purpose-finding is as or more important than course-content, why not make purpose-finding part of the purpose of your course? #edchat #restorehumanity🚀Download and share our "Path To Purpose Handbook" as a free fillable PDF: https://t.co/x3RaaRBnjQ pic.twitter.com/nYa4tIHRO1— Human Restoration Project (@HumResPro) July 13, 2022

The burnout experienced by #disabled activists, tirelessly asking, teaching, begging, pleading, screaming, crying and repeating who are then minimized and relegated to the passive role of "the screen reader user" grateful for the scraps thrown their way...https://t.co/0asA9xR3UV— Katie Mixtochtli - use alt text (@Conundrum9999) July 14, 2022

Meta thread about #AltText since I have so many threads about it and #Image descriptions for the #Blind.CC #DisabilityTwitter #DisabilityPride #DisabilityPrideMonth https://t.co/zlICF1DWNw— Katie Mixtochtli - use alt text (@Conundrum9999) July 8, 2022

This is important: A carefully-designed, well-powered trial has found that teaching mindfulness in schools does not reduce depressive symptoms (CES-D), social-emotional-behavioural functioning (SDQ) or wellbeing (WEMWBS) in 11-13 year olds (N=8376)https://t.co/9UvBqT7BO2— Dr Lucy Foulkes (@lfoulkesy) July 13, 2022

the autistic urge to rot in bed all day because you've never actually gotten the time you need to recover from burnout so now you live life mostly in a couch-potato state but you also have responsibilities so sometimes you do things feeling distant from reality— ˚⋆◦˚pixie cherub˚◦⋆˚ (she|her) (@_faeriedust_) July 13, 2022

Looking back on my early 20s, so many of my life choices then were a trauma response for how I was treated for being neurodivergent without realising I was neurodivergent.— Sarah Boon #StopTheShock (@Saraheboon) July 10, 2022

Was i an “emo kid” or was I just an undiagnosed autistic teenager who felt too much, prone to limerence, episodes of spiraling anxiety and used music to cope with it all??— worm girl (@babybrinner) July 11, 2022

Was i an “emo kid” or was I just an undiagnosed autistic teenager who felt too much, prone to limerence, episodes of spiraling anxiety and used music to cope with it all??— worm girl (@babybrinner) July 11, 2022

At a very basic level, behaviour is the wrong focus.Behaviourism is a bad lens, and it's actively dangerous when applied without a deep understanding of the experiences of the person you're doing it to: an understanding which behaviourist approaches by definition won't provide.— Oolong 🍉 (@MxOolong) July 11, 2022

Today thankful for heart consultant and team for herding me through various scans. They noticed that making social conversation with me put my heart rate right up. "How strange!" one remarked. Nope normal for autism.— Ann Memmott PGC MA 🌈 (They/she) (@AnnMemmott) July 11, 2022

The biggest communication hurdles I face as an autistic person are:1. People looking beyond my literal wording and reading implied meanings into my wording that I do *not* intend to imply.2. People expecting me to read beyond/into their literal wording, which my brain cannot.— Callum Stephen (He/Him) (@AutisticCallum_) July 12, 2022

How my understanding and learning works as an #ActuallyAutistic person: pic.twitter.com/3otRvmD3nU— Colin 🏳️‍⚧️ is tired but vaccinated (@scribecheck) July 12, 2022

Tune into the @Autistica Research Festival at 1pm today for my poster presentation about the preliminary development and validation of a self-report measure of #monotropism in autism. @Richard_Autism, @MxOolong, and I will be taking questions through the live Q&A chat.— Valeria Garau (@VSMGarau) July 13, 2022

How true!!!!! Guest speaker Chris sharing his top 9 tips of supporting people living with #Autism to flourish #Autistic @meetmacintyre 💜 pic.twitter.com/v8DFAgVVWe— Nicola Payne: Family Engagement Consultant (@NicolaP321) July 13, 2022

Drs: what's going on? Me: explains symptoms, shows data tracking changes, gives a few working hypotheses and asks for specific diagnostics to rule outDrs: lol no that's not how it works you wouldn't be capable of doing this research if you were really that sick #NEISvoid— Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD (@Nicole_Lee_Sch) July 13, 2022

Spending today working my way through a database of ~1700 papers on autism and education published during the last 5 years. This is a 3-fold increase on the number of papers published between 2000 and 2017.One of new themes to crop up in these latest papers? Robot teachers 🤯 pic.twitter.com/hCa5WDHA0e— Jo Billington (@MsJoBillington) July 11, 2022

https://t.co/YERKIWaKYd— Damian Milton (@milton_damian) July 12, 2022

Thanks Damian. There’s a theme of ‘relieving some of the burden on teachers’ in the papers I’ve seen. It’s seriously dodgy stuff.— Jo Billington (@MsJoBillington) July 12, 2022

Really feeling the sharp edge of inaccessible healthcare today. I can work in healthcare, I can provide care for others. I just can’t access it for myself. What’s obvious to another autistic doctor is utterly baffling to NT colleagues & when sick I have no spoons to educate 😢— Mary Doherty (@AutisticDoctor) July 13, 2022

Now at #LondonVirtualAutisticConference is a presentation on situational mutism and PDA, led by Chloe Farahar (Aucademy), joined by non-speaking or semi-speaking Si (with a pigeon filter), Ben (with a potato filter) and Libby— Anna Nicholson (@transponderings) July 13, 2022