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.

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...

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!

@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...

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

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?...

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

Hummingbird Hawk Moth in my garden this morning!

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

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.

#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

youtube.com/watch?v=-eDv... This made me cry tears of joy. So beautiful.

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?...

#glimmer I love these little raindrops.

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...

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

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."

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

E-Book: Monotropism: Supporting Young Autistic People With Transitions At Home & School Hopefully helpful for the start of term!

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

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.

New published blog by myself and @tanyaadkin.bsky.social for @autisticsociety.bsky.social What is monotropism? Understanding a neuroaffirming theory of autism www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-g...

Am I the Asshole? (Poem)

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-...

Judgement

A Teapot and A Poem

💜🌟🌈 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

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

#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)

My moment of #Glimmer in lush and wild nature while taking a break from the sensory nightmare of exercise. What's yours? autisticrealms.com/glimmers-aut...

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

"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...

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

"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...

Your brain! Is glowing! Right now! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/your...

The red valerian and the sea.

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.

I love the idea of penguin pebbling! Here is my updated blog as a penguin pebble to the lovely #actuallyautistic Bluesky Community we have growing here :) autisticrealms.com/penguin-pebb...

Penguin Pebbling … perfect 😍

Excited to say that I have a chapter in each of two books on neurodiversity & education coming out this autumn, edited by @krysiawally.bsky.social and @keatesresearch.bsky.social. 🎉 Details in following posts. 🧵

Good morning. Here's wishing everyone a peaceful week ahead. It's #MallardMonday. 🦆

Monotropism @ Cafe Autistique, Manchester, 2025. Had so much fun with this one.

If you've ever zoned in so hard the world disappeared, this is for you. Check out my accessible presentation on measuring Monotropism @ Cafe Autistique in Manchester, 11 June 2025. youtu.be/tz2XpO1tg0Y?...

"People with autism [...] deserve a little envy [...] So long as they [...] feel safe, their intensity of awareness must be wonderful rather than terrifying. [...] People with autism I believe retain a capacity for wonder that most of us lose in infancy – it’s the positive side of bafflement."

"Do what you love, what makes you passionate" is the best advice I could ever think of.