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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Loved working on this paper! We mapped autistic adults’ monotropic attention as an interest-based sanctuary, and how neuronormative settings create barriers. Exploring The Phenomenology of Autistic Attention journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free read: eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/24...

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Exploring the Phenomenology of Autistic Attention - Daniel Poole, Helen Molloy, Beatrix Butnicu, Elizabeth Milne, Karen Leneh Buckle, 2026

Background: Existing research has identified areas of strength and challenge in relation to autistic attention. However, this work has tended to rely on compari...

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

The preprint I've worked on with colleagues from ShaRL and UoM is out now. "Exploring The Phenomenology of Autistic Attention". Read about how autistic adults experience hidden costs managing their attention in neuronormative world and find sanctuary in engaging with their interests.

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The Autistic Coach | Mati (he/they) @theautisticcoach.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Autistic Burnout recovery isn’t a dramatic overnight transformation. It’s quiet work. Learning your limits. Learning your rhythms. Learning when to stop before collapse. It’s not easy. But it’s how autistic humans build lives that we don't have to escape from.

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Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Day 16 of our strike action! What better time to bring out this classic banger The rain won't dampen our sprit today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnZV...

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All I Want For Christmas is UCU

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Café Autistique 3 December 2025 💜 ♾️ Autism research in a sensory friendly neuro-affirming space. We learned about the experiences of trans and non-binary autistic people as well as teachers supporting the mental health of autistic students. Thank you Autism At Manchester

Alexandra Sturrock standing on a small stage in front of the same Café Autistique projector slide. She gestures while speaking. A laptop sits on a table beside her. The room is dark with spot lighting and scattered round tables in the foreground.
“A community of academics, students, professionals, autistic people, family members, and other stakeholders.” It includes contact details: the website (autism.manchester.ac.uk), email (autism@manchester.ac.uk), and social media handles (@AutismAtMCR, @AutismManchester). A laptop is on a table beside her, with black chairs and round tables in the dim room.

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

youtube.com/watch?v=5cIa... Monotropism, Monotropic Split, Meerkat Mode, Monotropic Spiral and how it relates to Autistic Burnout, all explained casually by the lovely Meg.

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The WEIRDEST Theory of Autism You've Probably Never Heard of...

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Reyt Wild and Free Occupational Therapy is a wellness consultancy based in Sheffield and the surrounding areas. They specialise in supporting children with complex needs, their families, and their schools.

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Reyt Wild & Free OT

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Brucks, D., Krasheninnikova, A., von Bayern, A. M. P., & Bugnyar, T. (2020). Parrots voluntarily help each other to obtain food rewards. Current Biology, 30(2), 292–297.e5. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

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Two African grey parrots sit in adjacent metal cages. One has a pile of metal rings, the other has a single walnut. Between them is a small hole in the divider. The image illustrates a study where parrots passed rings through the hole so their partners could trade them for treats.

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Scientists taught African grey parrots to swap metal rings for treats. Then they paired birds so one had ten rings and the other had none. The ring-rich parrots started passing rings through a hole so partners could “buy” walnuts — even with no reward for themselves.

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This adorable story shows how an experiment can seem to work but measure the wrong thing! A child tested if bird seeds grow birds, and birds appeared, confirming the idea. But the seeds *attracted* birds. In science that’s a threat to construct validity, and it happens to the best of scientists!

Screenshot of a tweet from user @_grimm (@ExileGrimm). It reads: “What’s the dumbest beliefs you had as a child? When I was 4–5 I swore that bird seeds grew birds, thus the name. When my parents asked me to prove it to them, I planted a pile of bird seeds. The next day there were loads of birds where I planted the seeds, showing I was right.”

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

@thrivingautistic.bsky.social has a new resource signposting page about: Masking, Emotional Regulation & Self-Care, Internalised Ableism, Sensory, Self-Advocacy, Intersectionality, Imposter Syndrome, Disclosure, Monotropism, Relationships, Burnout & more! www.thrivingautistic.org/discovery-pr...

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Discovery Programme Resources

Gentle, neuroaffirming resources created by and for Autistic adults.

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

More new research! Challenges, Strengths, and Joys of Autistic Parents: An abductive qualitative content analysis of parent interviews. Thom-Jones, S., Brownlow, C., & Abel, S. (2025).https://doi.org/10.1177/25739581251385735

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Free training from @vivdawes.bsky.social and myself: Supporting Autistic Children and Young People through Burnout. Shared via Autistic Burnout Network - lots more resources available! autisticburnoutnetwork.com youtu.be/LzBaTGZos8s?...

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Viv Dawes and Helen Edgar

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Beauty is in the eye of the monotropic unicorn. #monotropism

Pink smiling unicorn t-shirt with real sunglasses hanging as if under its eyes, curly purple hair strands and a multi colour polka dot scarf. The unicorn is my embodied metaphor for Monotropism, the horn (attention tunnel) coming out of the prefrontal cortex and converving into a singular point of focus, which often feels ike magic.

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Hummingbird Hawk Moth in my garden this morning!

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Can everyone take more paracetamol please? It would really help my headaches. /Joke

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Autism isn’t caused by medicine. Claims that paracetamol in pregnancy causes autism are false. We do not need to prevent or cure autism. Autistic people are valuable. Great guidance here from @contactfamilies.bsky.social for anyone who is worried or concerned with the news today.

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Dr Chris DJ Taylor @chrisdjtaylor.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

#TheMostInterestingThinginMentalHealth: #Insomnia is major factor contributing to many mental health problems. @ProfEspie University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk gives top tips for clinicians at the European CBT Conference #EABCT2025 @babcpevents.bsky.social @babcpjournals.bsky.social @babcp.com

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hurrah! We can finally share the animations I have been working on with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic Please do let us know what you think and share if you find valuable! youtu.be/3O6hy-usIug?...

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Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

So very happy to be part of the @stimpunks.org team working on this! Updated page - have a look... exciting things happening and thoughts evolving...

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

#glimmer my work kitchen has a beautiful bird tray and I'm so happy

Dish rack where a big white tray with colourful bird prints is sitting

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

youtube.com/watch?v=mldC... Very interesting. In school the girls were asked to stand up if they were Christian. Emily didn't. She said, "They thought it queer I didn't rise, I thought a lie would be queerer."

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The Autistic Poetry of Emily Dickinson

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Hope you can join us! FREE tickets! A great opportunity to watch the 2 new animations about being Autistic that I've been working on with @iara-abigalil.bsky.social, @fergus.oolong.co.uk , @scrappapertiger.bsky.social , @jessicakdoyle.bsky.social, Laura Buckland Mason & @somebodysomeone.bsky.social

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 11/09/2025

Seriously, please write to your MP about this, whoever they are, if you're in the UK.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 11/09/2025

This is so important. The NHS ADHD waiting lists are years long all over Scotland, apart from places where they've been closed entirely. I got on the Edinburgh waiting list five years ago, just before a huge rise in people realising they need it; diagnosed after 4 years; still waiting on any meds.

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Reflections on The Autistic Mental Health Conference. How Autistic communities create care through shared understanding & reclaiming narratives, resisting harm & reframing wellbeing. An interview with @emergentdivergence.com autisticrealms.com/reflections-...

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Reflections on the Autistic Mental Health Conference 2025 | Autistic Realms

Reflections On The Autistic Mental Health Conference. An Interview between David Gray-Hammond & Helen Edgar

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Autistic Realms (Helen Edgar) @autisticrealms.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

💜🌟🌈 My neuro-affirming starter pack includes a collection of wonderful individuals and organizations dedicated to supporting autistic individuals and effecting positive change. Please follow and share. 💜🌟🌈 go.bsky.app/9N5UEUC

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 02/09/2025

More engagement with autistic-authored theory in everything to do with autism, please! oolong.medium.com/autistics-on...

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Autistics on Autism

What everyone — especially professionals — needs to learn from autistic communities

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

#glimmer #glimmer Going home Without my sorrow Going home Sometime tomorrow Going home To where it’s better Than before Going home Without my burden Going home Behind the curtain Going home Without the costume That I wore (Leonard Cohen - Going Home)

Old English headstone with angel bas relief surrounded by autumnal rainy nature.

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Tam B @mskittysoftpaws.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Yes, #LucyBronze played the #WomensEuros25 with a fractured tibia. For those of you new to autistic/ADHD folk, one of our strengths is #monotropism - a way of thinking that allows single-minded focus on a key interest. It can also mean we don’t read internal body signals like pain in the same way

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

"When autistic people are absorbed in their interests, alone or in the company of others who share them, that is when they feel autistically, magically alive" - NeuroClastic neuroclastic.com/a-productive...

Autistic person with sensory armour like headphones and golf cap standing peacefully with eyes closed and a smile against an old English brick wall. Above her head is a natural bouquet of bellflowers growing out of the wall. Used as metaphor for neurodivergent mental health and cognitive flourishing.

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Dan Poole @danpoole.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

New preprint: Open data in autism research: the views of autistic people and parents of autistic children osf.io/preprints/me... Led by @hannahhobson.bsky.social w/ @dramypearson.bsky.social Audrey Linden @cmanning.bsky.social @fsedgewick.bsky.social @lauramaycrane.bsky.social #AutRes #OpenSci

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Zandra.Bluesky 420buddy @zandra-b.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A wildlife photographer joked that his wife managed to capture an extraordinary photo that outdid him: a European eagle owl, one of the world's largest, perched on his camera lens.

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

A couple of days ago I returned to my previous school, Hallam University, to help staff bring the best out of their autistic students. It was a cathartic experience. My partner, Darren, helped me navigate the environment. We make a great team.

Beatrix in a modern goth Victorian outfit in front of Sheffield Hallam University.

Beatrix with sunglasses, black hat and long purple hair and her partner Darren, with sunglasses and medium light brown hair.

Beatrix presenting about monotropism through a whimsically colourful slide where the cockatoo gets the rainbow-coloired attention tunnel spotlight because it's the most interesting "actor" on stage while everyone else gets tuned out in a blur.

Beatrix presents a slide on accessibility solutions in the realm of autistic attention.

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This moment needs Instrument of Surrender by Sea Power. open.spotify.com/track/1PQW0o...

Top of bookcase with a brachiosaurus toy and some fake plants. A rectangular window-shaped light creeps through on the wall on top of the bookcase encasing a big verdant shadow of the plants.

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Beatrix Butnicu 🦆🪻 @beatrixbird.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Runner up at the TUoS School of Psychology PG Conference. Not bad. I was quite stressed in this picture, but talking about attention tunnels put me in my attention tunnel.

Beatrix in a lecture hall at the speaker station wearing sensory armour and a black galaxy shirt with the intro slide behind her saying Can I Have Your Attention: Developing an Experimental Measure of Monotropism. There's a big painted eye graphic with a pink heart in the pupil that gives birth to a rainbow beam of light in the dark. This is meant to show the interest-baded attention tunnel in Monotropism.

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

From @meresearchuk.bsky.social Researchers in America have found that including people with lived experience of #MECFS, #longCOVID, or other post-acute infection syndromes (PAIS) in an education program for health professionals generally improved the care patients received.Read more: bit.ly/3ZZkZrD

"Many of us ... have had a tremendous amount of loss after we get our diagnosis...
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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 04/07/2025

"I wish that every time we talked about inclusion, we talked about exclusion. Because for some reason people think including all disabled children in school is controversial. But when you talk about exclusion, suddenly everyone is against it.” TY North Star & Compass: substack.com/@northstaran...

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On why we try to take month long trips

Also exclusion, travel, government, Pictello reading, Mamdani, life, health insurance, fascism, centering DJ, milestones

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 20/06/2025

The red valerian and the sea.

A bright, hazy day, of the sort that blurs the line between the sea and the sky.

A cluster of red valerian - extravagant pink flowers - grows on a small hummock. It is all that stands between us and the sea.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 16/06/2025

If Labour don't ditch this approach completely within the next year or so, they will hand the next general election to Reform, having next to nothing to show for their time in office.

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