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What will happen when Switzerland will have 10 millions inhabitants without immigrants. This is an important question. They will come after the next minority. No doubt. They did it in the past with the children, the disabled.

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The "10 millions" initiative shifts the focus on immigrant. But, it's straight malthusianism and eugenics. It's about regulating the population of the poorer. It won't stop them to be capitalist, easing the market, lowering taxes for the richer. This initiative is about immigrants.

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Municipalities paid a one way ticket to the Americas to the poorer. Later at the end of the 19th century and until the end Children of single mothers or of poor families were forcibly placed in families and institutions. Disabled were sterilized. The list goes on.

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Switzerland has a long history of malthusianism and eugenic. The country didn't wait a long time to embrace these ideologies. The Confederation controled the population for decades starting in the 18th century until the 1980's.

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Many against the initiative are saying that these arguments are here to divert people about the real reason, immigration. These people are wrong. The arguments about ecology, sustainability are not here to mask. They are real argument, and worse than they look like.

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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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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France is still deeply in psychoanalysis, and disability rights are not a things. Merge both and people see autism has the fault of the mother and no access to the diagnosis.

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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 · 18/05/2026

Thanks for sharing. will have a read!

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

We have so much to learn and adapt how we see these things. People needing help mustn't be tracked. They should land on the info, anonymously, and quickly. This is a first step to help them, to build trust in institutions, have a better sexual health in our societies.

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

It asks if we accept cookies. This is totally wrong and a bad design. First, the website should not use cookies. Second, the cookies banner is one more step to get the info that often people want as quick as possible.

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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.

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

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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As disable and neurodivergent, will not today. Neoliberalism doesn't allow what we are experiencing. It's part of it. It just came down to the poorer classes.

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And here we are at the actual rhetoric about them. It's nothing new. It still is the same has the one at the beginning of neoliberalism. A return to nature will fix these people. If not, we have to convert them to produce. A worker at this time would not access the “natural trend”.

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It took a century for neoliberalism to conquer. It implies how disable, and neurodivergent, are seen in research, and generally. As the general population assume they are not productive, they can't be individuals, and so forth can't take care of themselves. This means they aren't fully human.

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With this vision, a whole new market opened. The upper class bough new “healthy” food products, new “natural” treatments, new vacation trends. All of this was part of the market, and hence capitalism. Then, economists took over it and applied it to the general economy.

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Neoliberalism was first about the health of the upper class. How would human (bourgeoisie) be healthier in this industrial complex with the urbanization, the factories, etc. Many would look at Nature, making an interpretation of Darwinism. Here began a more individual take on human health.

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

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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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 · 24/12/2025

It's a great video and conference. maybe people should begin with this when they look at neurodiversity.

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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Autistrain @autistrain.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I will definitively listening to this while hiking tomorrow.