#Autism

A comment I received about Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) & autism has made me reflect on if PDA is a good defense against FII. The answer I get is
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Autism Research1. Find something that autistics reliably do differently than the rest of the population.2. Make it tragedy3. Profit#AutismAcceptanceMonth c.f.https://twitter.com/SNeurotypicals/status/1245884754710290432?s=19 c.f. alsohttps://twitter
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All the information needed to make an informed decision on vaccinations- I’ll do a book reading list thread another time- here’s a thread with actual links so that when people
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1/ When it comes to vaccines, lies cost lives. @GoogleAds is paying vaccine misinformation sites, like Waking Times, to show these brands’ advertisements.Until Google does the right thing, we’re calling
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Today I would like to revisit the 'independence' myth.I've just read an ABA enthusiast saying that 'many' autistic people won't be 'independent'.No-one is.It has always been a myth, this independence
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1/ A while back I asked for information about how kids were coping with the lockdown. I received many answers. Unfortunately I got busy and didn’t post any. I apologize
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Oh man I forgot that people who don’t spend entirely too much time on the internet being fascinated by all the terrible ideas people have don’t already know about the
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@CrownePlaza .. Why are your rude bullying staff trying to force my husband to leave the quarentine hotel a day early?The entire stay has been an absolute shambles not giving
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Can we talk about autism?In the 1920s, my dad’s 1st cousin was born. In those days, people didn’t understand autism. Dad’s cousin was frustrated by his inability to communicate. He
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I am writing on detailed blog post on stimming, but it‘s going to be a while - so I thought I‘d share some key points here, because it keeps coming
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I’m old enough to remember how a lot of kids didn’t get an official diagnosis of autism as kids b/c doctors were shielding is from being ineligible for insurance as
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OK friends, here is my first short story of one of the issues that accompany autism. Today's topic: Sensory overload. A thread... When I was in my early elementary school
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A thread about our new open-access paper, just out today. We tested how well standardized measures of social cognition, social skill, and social motivation predict real-world social interaction outcomes for
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March 2017@RealDonaldTrump confronted Bill Gates on the safety of vaccines when he was considering a safety commission headed by @RobertKennedyJr to look into the ill effects of vaccines.Gates said, “No,
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Okay, everyone’s probably bored already with my ramblings. But before I leave you alone for a bit, I’m just setting up a meta-thread to collate stuff together. I will probably
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This is the state of autism teaching in neuroscience in 2020. Note the check box that says all autistics of all ages can’t pass false/belief tasks and have no theory
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