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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I cut with social media the last months. What did I miss?

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A lot of people are asking me how Nathan Cofnas was hired, UGent professor Bouke de Vries invited him to UGent. Bourke and Cofnas are part of the same global network to mainstream eugenics and far right academics. Of course funded by Peter Thiel and other rich far right activists.

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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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Jade Farrington (she/her) @jadefarrington.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Therapy either upholds neuronormativity and pathologises Autistic people, or challenges normative values and supports Autistic wellbeing through neuroaffirming resistance. Watch Autistic Resistance & Challenging Neuronormativity in the Therapy Room at jadefarrington.substack.com/p/watch-now-...

Autistic Resistance & Challenging Neuronormativity in the Therapy Room
Watch at jadefarrington.substack.com
Alyshelchi: "I signed up for a month just to watch the webinar, which I found to be really helpful. I think I'll stay for a bit to see more content! Very helpful for this counselor in training."
The Autistic Companion: "I appreciate how clearly you lay out the ecosystemic reality Autistic people live in. As someone who spent decades in the military and later in the medical field, I saw firsthand how neuronormativity shapes entire systems long before I had language for it. What you describe about environments, power, and pathologisation matches what many of us have lived without ever being offered accommodations. My own work focuses on the same idea you highlight here — that understanding and autonomy often do more for our wellbeing than any attempt to ‘fix’ us. Your framing gives people a way to see what many of us have had to navigate quietly for most of our lives"
Take your neuroaffirming practice to the next level with this on-demand webinar

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Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Dear Autism in Adulthood: you're the most paywalled (inaccessible) autism journal. You finally post an open access paper. Many hours later you make it disappear, without any explanation. It has not come back. The paper's DOI exists but you have erased the paper. This is neurodiversity affirmative?

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Switzerland is voting about limiting the population. The limit would be set at 10 millions. No doubt that it's again an initiative against immigration from the far right. But, the main arguments are sustainability, ecology, saving the landscape, etc.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Good news, the audio version of Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction is out now on Audible, Spotify, etc.! I also have three codes for free Spotify copies, so we can do a competition. Just share and like this and I'll pick three people at random to get the codes this weekend.

Yellow and green book stood up on a wooden desk next to a houseplant.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Nothing new under the sun. ABA still is the old ABA, and it won't change.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This has more to do with IT. When it comes to sexual health, only the necessary has to be given. It's a matter of confidenciality, trust. I just went on the website of a national organization about sexual health.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

More Lebensreform grounded ideas

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Get your lovely fresh neurodivergence research roundup here. Always a pleasure doing these for organisations. As ever, a mix of some of the best and most debate-worthy stuff from research teams. ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-...

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Autism, Neurodivergence, Support Needs and Inclusion — What’s New in April — Neurodiverse Connection

In this research roundup, Ann Memmott highlights, amongst others, new studies on Rejection-Sensitivity Dysphoria, masking, ABA and conflict of interest, terminology, use of social media, ethnically ...

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

On autistic masking: interesting to look at it as 'autistic have something to lose when stopping to mask'. It might be part of their identity, a community, belonging.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

I should write about eugenic, Lebensreform, neoliberalism, and how they are linked together, bringing us what we see

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

An extremist group will go after itself at some point.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

On Uta Frith, its worth noting she's been doing this kind of thing for decades. In her 2008 book "Autism: A Very Short Introduction" she wrote that attempt to shift from a deficit to difference perspective is "peverse" and said that if you hold that perspective then the book is "not for you".

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

People like to write and speak about the symptoms way more than the underlying systemic issues.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Looking at autistic masking as subject to a condition gives more perspective.

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Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In an autism oxytocin RCT, what happened during the placebo lead-in?--results "provide evidence of the importance of placebo controlled randomised designs..." acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "providing an inert treatment can still result in substantial clinical improvement over time"

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<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library

Background The placebo effect is established in clinical trials, but for paediatric research, questions remain about how to best manage its influence. Within the autism field, data on these issues i...

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The wellness industry is not just a revamp of the Lebensreform. It's its continuation.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

People are waking up on the pseudoscience health industrie?

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I read many things about mental and physical health, research, pseudoscience, capitalism. One interesting thing is to locate the birth of neoliberalism in the second half of the 19th century, and in the health industry.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

So it's still acceptable to publish some sort of craniometry in 2025. It says a lot about a field.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I wrote something about neoliberalism and closed the window. I lost it. :/

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I see many autistics in messaging groups falling for neoliberal narratives around self responsability. Answers are collective. This individualistic narrative and view is one part of the issue.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I'm seeing more and more neurodiversity lite by people being against it. It's interesting how a similar trajectory is taken in neurodiversity as it was in the left.

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I just saw the classic 1968 Basaglia work The Negated Institution has now, for the first time, been fully translated into English by @footymac.bsky.social. An incredibly important book in the history of critical approaches to psychiatry. And its open access! punctumbooks.com/titles/the-n...

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The Negated Institution: Report from a Psychiatric Hospital – punctum books

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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Something i didn't have time to say is: the standard liberal neurodiversity response of *actually theyre underdiagnosed, the increase is just us getting better at recognising neurodivergence, etc.* is a dead end here as it precisely depoliticises the issue and reifies and essentialises diagnosis.

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

After much careful reflection, my Twitter account has been closed. Whilst a shame to lose the potential reach of the 30,000 followers there, I have taken a path of greater safety. As ever, I am pottering about on other social media, where there is a somewhat better grasp of ethics and responsibility

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

In We See Things They’ll Never See, Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday show how neurotypical hegemony reproduces a culture of exclusion—and how to overcome this with love, hope, and solidarity. Out now. Check out a free preview of this pathbreaking book: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity by Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Could we stop using and providing pseudoscience, new-age, etc. with/to autistics? It's making things worse for them.

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Michelle Dawson @autismcrisis.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

In an autistic child (age 5), targeting "whining" ("Emission of dissatisfied statements or sounds 2.5s or longer at speech level volume or higher") & crying ("Tears and facial contortions with or without vocal accompaniment") as "problem behavior"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ABA in 2025

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Application of Abductive Reasoning in Synthesized Contingency Assessments

In a synthesized contingency analysis (SCA), contingencies hypothesized to maintain problem behavior are combined into a single test condition; if the behavior occurs at a higher rate in that conditi...

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Jaime Hoerricks, PhD @jaimehoerricks.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

This episode provides a rigorous critique of institutional power and the “myth of democracy” within autism research, arguing that the language of “consensus” and “community involvement” is often a performance that masks deep-seated inequity and colonial structures. open.substack.com/pub/autside/...

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Episode 384: Consensus Without Consent in Autism Research

Today’s episode provides a rigorous critique of institutional power and the “myth of democracy” within autism research, arguing that the language of “consensus” and “community involvement” is often a ...

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Monique Botha @drmbothapsych.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

In our study, led by the amazing Taylor Burns, we found that masking of autistic traits may leave autistic people vulnerable to identity distress which in turn effects mental health. This means constantly adapting to neurotypical norms may make it hard for autistic people to hold on to who they are

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AMASE @amase.org.uk · 22/09/2025

Again and again, studies that actually ask people what autism research should prioritise find that the funding landscape bears little relation to stakeholders' priorities. The RFK Jr project is even worse: politically motivated, unscientific & anti-Autistic. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4230972

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What should autism research focus upon? Community views and priorities from the United Kingdom

The rise in the measured prevalence of autism has been accompanied by much new research and research investment internationally. This study sought to establish whether the pattern of current UK autism...

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

At the cost of the autistics who any way where not considered, it's an attempt to control the pregnancy, and women. They want women under male autority. This will never be fine.

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AMASE @amase.org.uk · 22/09/2025

Paracetamol (Tylenol) does not cause autism, and it is a source of great dismay that autism researchers and Autistic advocates still have to spend so much time battling misinformation. Research on causes of autism systematically fails to control for the existence and behaviour of Autistic parents.

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Stimpunks Foundation @stimpunks.org · 22/09/2025

Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts. We are stable parts of the human genome. “Human cognitive diversity exists for a reason; our differences are the genius – and the conscience – of our species.” —Carol Black, A Thousand Rivers stimpunks.org/philosophy/b...

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Behold the Spectrum

Queer and neurodivergent people are biological facts.We are stable parts of the human genome.If you believe in a Maker, Maker built us in.Look to Maker and behold the Spectrum!If you don’t subscribe…

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Take the same old receipt, change the name of the ingredients. Pretend it's new.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

The words in capital say everything!

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 13/09/2025

Unfortunately, this is important. Re-posting with alt text.

A four-panel explainer comic:

Who are groypers and why did charlie Kirk's murderer had their memes engraved on his bullet casings?

Panel 1:
Groypers Are An Ultra-nationalist are an ultra-nationalist neo-nazi group born out of the 2010's meme culture, led by Nick Fuentes, who in 2019 started what was dubbed "The Groyper Wars". They targeted the left, but also mainstream conservatives.
(The drawing for this panel is an angry young man in a MAGA hat, with an AF insignia behind him.)

Panel 2:
Charlie Kirk was one of the main targets of the Groyper Wars. He was considered "a fake conservative" because he accepted to debate with Jewish or gay people. Groypers routinely attempted to derail his debates and force him into extreme positions.
(The drawing shows a recorded debate.)

Panel 3:
Groypers use progressive symbols as a strategy to confuse people about their actual beliefs. for example, the protest song "Bella Ciao" was chosen as one of the "theme songs" of the Groyper Wars.
(The drawing is off a frog troll meme)

"Hey fascist, catch ↑→↓↓↓" is a meme referencing a code for total annihilation in shooting game "Helldivers 2". "*notices bulge* OwO what's this?" is another popular hateful meme used to harass the furry community, a common target of the far-right.

Tyler Robinson is a soldier in the Groyper Wars who has fallen so deep into internet culture that most people can't even recognize it.
(Picture of a white boy, mostly hidden by text).

By Sophie Labelle.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Does anyone have ressources about being in a sort of "savior mode" and autistic?

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David Gray-Hammond (NeuroHub Community) @neurohubcommunity.org · 07/09/2025

We need this to spread far and wide. The more people making noise about this and signing and sharing the linked petition the better. #ActuallyAutistic #autism #AutisticRights @tanyaadkin.bsky.social @autisticrealms.bsky.social @autismadvocate.co.uk @jadefarrington.bsky.social

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 05/09/2025

It sucks to be autistic during menopause: "Participants felt unprepared for the intensification of sensory sensitivities during the menopause transition due to a lack of information about perimenopause from healthcare providers." via @christineajenkins.bsky.social: journals.lww.com/menopausejou...

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The transition to menopause for autistic individuals in the ... : Menopause

ideotelephone interviews with 21 autistic adults who had experienced, or were currently experiencing, perimenopause in the United States. Data were coded by two independent coders. We used a thematic ...

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Autism: The International Journal of Research & Practice. @journalautism.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

In this systematic review, George Watts & colleagues find there is a "certain magic"✨ of autistic adults connecting with each other, enhancing their quality of life across various domains. These interactions could be key to better wellbeing. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

A French politician once said: When you're pissed off by a case, you have to create a case within a case, and if necessary another case within the case of the case, until nobody understands anything any more.

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