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Susan Madigan @susanmadigan3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For all autistic freshers and returning autistic college students, do listen if you get a chance!

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Susan Madigan @susanmadigan3.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I recently recorded 2 podcasts for Middletown Centre for Autism, they may be of benefit to anyone with college bound autistic young people getting offers tomorrow! 1.Starting university as an autistic student. 2. Practical ways for Autistic students to reset for term open.spotify.com/show/5mSa0W6...

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The Middletown Centre for Autism Podcast

Podcast · Middletown Autism · The Middletown Podcast features interviews with leading thinkers and practitioners across the autistic and autism community. Conversations are autism-affirming and neurod...

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Susan Madigan @susanmadigan3.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Over the past 10 years I’ve work with higher education institutions, companies, and physical and mental health teams across the country, delivering training on neurodiversity. In the past year, however, something has changed. 1/? 🧵#TheADHDMyth

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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The UK arguably has (had) the lowest known stigma toward autism journals.plos.org/plosone/arti..., yet critics seem to think stigma has dropped too far in a world that remains too often deadly. All the retrenchment in the media and policy risks making the world a deadlier place. 8/ end

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Cross-cultural variation in experiences of acceptance, camouflaging and mental health difficulties in autism: A registered report

Recent findings suggest that stigma and camouflaging contribute to mental health difficulties for autistic individuals, however, this evidence is largely based on UK samples. While studies have shown ...

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 10/09/2026

As of Cabinet yesterday, one now needs the ability to communicate in order to be considered a citizen. Yet in the first three months of 2026, not a single child in ten counties was given a plan on how the State would deliver them with speech and language therapy. This week’s column @thejournal.ie:

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Gavan Reilly: Six months by law. 24.3 months in reality. Ireland's disability numbers don't add up

The eye-watering numbers of children waiting for Assessment of Need in this country expose a broken system offering little hope to families.

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Susan Madigan @susanmadigan3.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Gorgeous day as always #AsIAmConf2026. Amazing to hear @sarasiobhan.bsky.social discuss her work on social murder, echoing Engels work. Sometimes I feel like I'm shouting into the void, don't you know autistic and ADHD folks have auto immune at twice the rate of everyone else? Look at the data lads!

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Dermot Casey @dermotcasey.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In case anyone comes across either the ADHD is over diagnosed or Autism is over diagnosed BS. Here are two pieces I wrote that demolish both of those arguments On ADHD (which also touches on Trans & Autism) I wrote www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-e... On Autism dermotcasey.net/the-challeng...

The headline reads, “ADHD and autism are not overdiagnosed. They’re better recognised.” The poster explains that awareness is catching up, diagnostic criteria have evolved, and ADHD and autism have historically been underdiagnosed, especially in girls and women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and adults. It includes icons of a lightbulb with a brain, an open book, a diverse group of people, a heart, and a checklist. The message emphasizes that real struggles are valid, diagnosis can lead to better support, and “This isn’t overdiagnosis. This is overdue recognition.”

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“When I get sick and I can't afford medicine, what are the holistic and low-cost alternatives that I can turn to because I know that I can't afford to see a doctor?” First, holistic medicine is mostly a luxury good, not a function of poverty.

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Looking for book and graphic novel suggestions for a 14-year-old who: A) Loves the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels and books like World War Z & Project Hail Mary. B) Isn't into superheroes/harry potter/fantasy (working on getting him into Pratchett).

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Ben Potts @ben-potts.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A journal editorial asked whether autism has lost its meaning. A documentary asked whether ADHD is real. My new blog post is about what that does to the people who then say nothing. blogs.city.ac.uk/needs/autism...

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Autism and ADHD Under Attack: What It Costs to Be Doubted in Public

What this summer's arguments about autism and ADHD do to diagnosis, stigma and whether people tell anyone.

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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

Fun fact: the Emergency didn't technically end until 1976, when the government wanted to declare a new emergency because of the Troubles (another euphemism) and discovered the never formally ended the old one. So the Dáil had to vote to end the emergency, then immediately declare a new emergency.

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Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk · 30/08/2026

One area where a substantial amount of really good autism research has been done is on the question of *what autism research ought to get done*. They've systematically asked autistic people and others with a reason to care, and keep coming back with the same answers. 🧵⬇️... bsky.app/profile/oolo...

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Randy, Baron von Greymatter @wowindescribable.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wow. As someone who was diagnosed (after extensive evaluation and testing) with ADHD last year at age 60, I can say that it and treatment changed my life dramatically for the better. It also explained the challenges I faced through life from childhood. It’s a very real thing.

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Clodagh Finn @clodaghfinn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Roshana D set up a secret school for girls in Afghanistan but fled to Pakistan when she was discovered by the Taliban. She is now in hiding - but still spoke to Irishwoman's Diary to ensure that women's voices are heard. Such courage 🙏 #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

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Clodagh Finn: A window into life of an Afghan woman who set up a secret school for girls and now lives in hiding

Roshana Dadgar set up a secret school in Afghanistan to educate young girls. She was later forced to flee to Pakistan and now lives under the threat of deportation, writes Clodagh Finn

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Susan Madigan @susanmadigan3.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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The Middletown Centre for Autism Podcast

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

arday was being used by these institutions as a symbol of their own goodness, and then he was used in turn by right-wing opportunists who wanted to smear them. he wasn't entirely a victim, of course, but he also wasn't the only one being dishonest.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.

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Susan Madigan @susanmadigan3.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

There’s growing discourse around the “overdiagnosis” of Autism and ADHD—particularly in adults. Critics say these diagnoses are now being handed out too easily, "its all gone too far", even framing them as trendy. But this view misses something fundamental. 1/24

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 06/08/2026

But I think some part of it is that isolation can cause is to lose community and continuity of ability to recognise each other and the things Ruth identifies about our trade offs, demanding rights means becoming visible, which means being vulnerable to backlash... It's all tough but we fight anyway.

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I posted this on Instagram and asked who could name the flats that it's based on and let me tell you people are tearing their hair out

A drawing of a load of women chilling on a redbrick balcony with a flowery mosaic facade

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Again, they signed up to the plan when implementation was in the distant future. Then they failed to act in the first few years, requiring the steps to be more severe in the later years to compensate. Now, as actual action looms, they attack the whole thing as extreme.

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Can’t lie, I was kind of enjoying the brief time period where these jokes seemed to stop being relevant. Quite weird to hope for your own material to become obsolete, but here we are, I suppose.

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Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Excited to share that our Women of the Borderlands archive is now available. It's the 1st to preserve the voices of women and the gendered complexities of life in and around the UK/Irish borderlands. We are so grateful to our research participants and the IQDA for making this happen.

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New Collection in DRI – Women of the Borderlands: Gender, Conflict and Cross-Border Mobilities Along the UK/Irish Border - Digital Repository of Ireland

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that a new collection – Women of the Borderlands: Gender, Conflict and Cross-Border Mobilities Along the UK/Irish Border – has been pub...

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Eoin Daly @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Noticing how tech in many ways increases friction of everyday life rather than relieving it. Example: I’m in a coffee chain that has prohibitive double tier pricing. Huge palaver ahead of me in the queue as a staff helps an elderly woman figure out the app. Ultimately driven by profit not utility

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Carl Kinsella @carlkinsella.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This week’s edition is about hare coursing, data centres, the Occupied Territories Bill, and how we’re prepared to build our economy around such pernicious things… and we don’t even get a good economy out of it.

“This is without even getting into the weeds of what our doubling down on data centres means for household electricity costs in Ireland (currently the highest in Europe) or the global effects on climate change (it's hot out, in case you haven't noticed). Nobody is disputing that data centres are important for the way the current world order is operating. The issue is that the current world order fucking sucks, man.”

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Deirdre O'Shaughnessy @deshocks.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Listening to a lady on Morning Ireland talking about getting a special card for people with medical conditions to get access to businesses toilets. Sorry but what are we paying taxes for? This is an extremely basic state responsibility. Where are the public toilets?

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Monotropism.org @monotropism.org · 01/07/2026

We've just added another of Dinah's chapters, from a 2011 book called Autism and Learning. Attached is a list of "Why computers suit autistic individuals", each one expanded on in the text. monotropism.org/autism-it/

Contained, very clear-cut boundary conditions.

Naturally monotropic, (cf. Douglas Coupland’s ‘overfocused’) thus context-free.

Restricted stimuli in all sensory modalities.

Rule-governed and predictable thus controllable (despite annoying mistakes).

Safe error-making.

Highly perfectible medium.

Possibilities of non-verbal or verbal expression.

Interacts cotropically with the individual, i.e. it joins the individual’s attention tunnel, ‘starts where the child is’.

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Monotropism.org @monotropism.org · 12/05/2026

One more piece of background reading/listening: Fergus's 2021 talk on craft, flow and cognitive styles. oolong.medium.com/craft-flow-a... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ztw7...

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Craft, Flow and Cognitive Styles

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Monotropism.org @monotropism.org · 07/05/2026

The latest episode of the Blindboy Podcast is about Autistic flow, and by extension monotropism (although he doesn't use the word). He discuses Towards Autistic Flow Theory (2024) and Transitioning in and out of Autistic Flow (2026). Links & further reading below. podcastaddict.com/the-blindboy...

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The Blindboy Podcast - This is a Mental health episode about being autistic. If you are not autistic, you might not like it and should listen to Diary of a CEO instead

Listen to The Blindboy Podcast - This is a Mental health episode about being autistic. If you are not autistic, you might not like it and should listen to Diary of a CEO instead by Blindboyboatclub on...

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Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Talks coming up peeps if anyone has an interest in witches and banshees? Cork on 13 July - the banshee - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-banshe... Dublin on 26 July - witches - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor... Cork on 17 August - witches - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-histor...

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FinnMackay @finnfox.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It's Pride season! Let's learn about butch identities, masculinities, what's different about the butch identity compared to terms like masculine of centre, non-binary, masc, what even is masculinity anyway, is butch its own gender, a way of womanhood, a lesbian legacy, is it feminist??!!

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Dr Gavin R. Stewart @gavrobstew.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Our new #AutRes paper is out in Nature Mental Health! We examined different trajectories of anxiety in midlife/older age and their relationship with autistic traits. And it was led by a wonderful former MSc and pre-doctoral fellow, Effie Eshetu. doi.org/10.1038/s442... More below ⬇️

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The association between autistic traits and trajectories of anxiety in middle-aged and older adults: an 8-year growth mixture model analysis - Nature Mental Health

Eshetu and collaborators investigated anxiety comorbidity in later life among adults with elevated autistic traits, examining how anxiety symptoms unfold with aging in a large UK community sample.

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🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠 @johnhyphen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

critical support for an coimisiún le rincí gaelacha ✊

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Susan Madigan @susanmadigan3.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Once again obsessed with @deshocks.bsky.social amazing podcast series: An Irish Woman's Diary. @clodaghfinn.bsky.social really brings these compelling women to life. Particularly enjoyed hearing about Lady Arabella Denny. Listen immediately!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My gift to you today is this instruction video on how to sit without discomfort. Especially useful for short hyper mobile people on airplanes or car trips. (I am also aware of bisexual sitting but don’t feel credentialed to recommending for the bisexuals.)

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 22/06/2026

"I am part of multiple rapidly expanding global networks of people & communities who are resisting AI & objecting to the power of the big tech companies. Within these resistance networks, women are leading the way" a must-read from my colleague Jennie Stephens www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

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Do women have an AI problem?

While big tech has been strategically investing to promote a positive narrative around AI, many rapidly expanding global networks of people and communities are resisting AI tools, writes Jennie C Step...

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Dr Gavin R. Stewart @gavrobstew.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Really pleased that our new paper has been published in The Lancet Regional Health: Europe, looking at #ADHD prevalence and incidence over the past 25 years in England. You can find the paper (open access) here: doi.org/10.1016/j.la... ⬇️ More info below. @kingsioppn.bsky.social

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Susan Madigan @susanmadigan3.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Great paper confirming that underdiagnosis prevails, rather than overdiagnosis, reinforcing O'Nions et al's previous work on ADHD, and autism. Increasing diagnosis much more related to correction rather than overdiagnosis

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Dr Gavin R. Stewart @gavrobstew.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Diagnosis often acts as a gatekeeper to receiving timely help and support. However, the majority of people with #ADHD will not yet have received a diagnosis and be unsupported, which needs to be urgently addressed. doi.org/10.1016/j.la...

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Dr Allison Andrews’ monster @doctorallisona.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Got a better, more specific question to ask. People on ADHD meds, particularly Methylphenidate or similar, what are your go-to breakfasts? Plus, have you tried those cereals marketed as high protein? Something like weetabix protein? Are they a good option?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/06/2026

If you are in a position to help out, you can do so here. We have churches rustling up donations, volunteers organised to help pack everything this weekend, others to distribute across the city and are working with an org to make sure it gets to the people in need bsky.app/profile/hlee...

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/06/2026

Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We're going to have to find a way to start geoblocking that country from posting takes about other places in the world. You know the one.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

And obviously he writes for WaPo and the LA Review of Books for free, yes? What an asshole. Also, there's lots of evidence that when we subsidize artists to create we all get significant value from it. www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

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The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI

Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâc...

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Oslo Pride video 🥹 🏳️‍🌈 #Pride #LoveIsLove

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Róisín 🏳️‍🌈 @rdisc0mb0bulate.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

thediyacademy.ie Check out Martin and the DIY Academy. They hold beginner days specifically for women nationwide. I went to one last year. I’m definitely more confident and competent as a result!

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The DIY Academy

Online and in-person DIY classes hosted by 25-years qualified carpenter Martin Glynn

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