bsky.app/profile/nest... Can everyone PLEASE give our new support group for parents a share and a follow, even if this is not close to you someone who follows you could need to see us and need help or support. This is in NI. #bettertogether 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

You are invited to our Discovery Celebration: Autistic Community Shaping Neuro-Affirmative Support FREE ONLINE TICKETS 18th September 7–8:45pm Irish/UK time Discovery Programme report launch Premiere 2 animation films about Autistic experiences Community space www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discovery-...

“We all need to do more when it comes to getting kids in and behaving. This includes mums, dads and carers, too,” Ms Phillipson said. Let the parent blaming begin.

We are now accepting expressions of interest for our September 2025 - March 2026 Discovery Programme cohorts! Join our supportive 6-week online programme with other newly identified Autistic adults (self ID welcome!). Find out more: www.thrivingautistic.org/discovery-pr...

Constant reflection and learning 💚 "..in many ways it reflects what Neurodiversity competency looks like in practice: being able to listen, to change and to keep Autistic needs and safety at the centre of everything".

Nature's gift to us night owls is in full flow tonight. Donegal graced with clear skies to watch the magnificent perseids 💚

When school sucks for autistic and ADHD students, the emotional impact hits them twice as hard. Unsurprisingly, this can lead to increased anxiety and depression. New research backing up autistic common knowledge: www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... #neurodiversity #autism #ADHD

This is so valuable 💚 thank you for creating this @autisticrealms.bsky.social

Love this! Beautiful portraits 💚

180y ago, the Great Hunger killed over a million people in Ireland as the Great Powers stood by & ignored the horrific suffering of children. Famine stalks Gaza, babies are arriving at the makeshift triage & dying. The death toll from genocide will grow as famine & disease murder more. Donate:

Ireland aiming to lure those wanting to escape the academic hellscapes of US / UK / Aus academia … We have currently a ‘Global Talent’ initiative for both mid career and senior academics. Informal expressions of interest to UCC ([email protected]) by end of July. www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...

This is going to be excellent.

More than three months in prison in harsh conditions. Why would anyone travel to the US?

Where is the Leder report?? asks @georgejulian.bsky.social "I don't think a clearer message could be sent to learning disabled & autistic people that their health, life's & death dont matter" #Learning Disability #Autism

"The idea of independence is a myth that serves to uphold ableism & other oppressions. The reality […] is that every person is interdependent. We are all part of a human ecosystem, a vast network of give and take, and need and support" @endeverstar.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Disabled people receiving care were ‘ignored by design’ during the pandemic, #Covid inquiry hears www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peo...

Calling autism community members and justice professionals (with experience in Magistrates/Crown Court) to help co-design new, accessible resources for autistic people involved in criminal court systems in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 & 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Autism community: lnkd.in/ekxQ_wV5 Justice professionals: lnkd.in/ee8SXbmd #AutRes

I'm going! 🐻🧺

New book by Routledge, "An Essential Guide to Caring for People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People". (Routledge publishers, 2025). Focusing mostly on learning disability, and written with Nurses in mind, but loads that's relevant to everyone involved. Lots to like in this.

AT-Autism conference 8th Oct 2025 📣Announcing our 3rd group of speakers, presenting on the theme of 'Embracing Change: The Art of the Possible': ✴️Alia Lewis ✴️Ann Memmott ✴️Dr Ken Greaves #AutismArtOfThePossible www.atautism.org/at-autism-co...

Free training tomorrow for people with learning disabilities in Leeds. This time we are looking at Fake News and AI as well as being safe. Get in touch if you want a place.

Remove ECHPs appointment Tom Bennet. Albeit about English system watch those out of school numbers rise. Pavlov is salivating

AT-Autism conference, 8th Oct 2025 📣Announcing the next 3 speakers at this @at-autism.bsky.social event, presenting on: 'Changing Minds: The Art of the Possible' ✳️Dr Catherine Dakin ✳️Heba Al-Jayoosi ✳️Dr Zahilah Filzah Zulkifli Book early bird tickets here: www.atautism.org/at-autism-co...

RFK Jr says autism "is an existential disease", demonstrating he knows nothing about autism nor how it is diagnosed, nor the views and experiences of autistic people. Deeply offensive and alarmist.

The Patient experience library has produced an amazing new research tool. You can select the typical red flag an inquiry report finds and then it shows you all the past reports that have highlighted that red flag. Please share far and wide www.patientlibrary.net/cgi-bin/libr...

Excellent response by Adam Harris to the ignorant dangerous crap being spouted by Suzanne O'Sullivan (and others). #speirgorm

Absolutely brilliant book filled with different Irish Autistic Voices and experiences 💚

ND referral blocks spreading—NHS Tayside halts new CAMHS autism and ADHD referrals “if your child does not have a co-existing mental health problem, we are unable to accept a referral for neurodevelopment assessment," www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/...

What has happened to basic kindness and humanity in school?

I would like to talk a little more about the very strange article in the Independent newspaper at www.independent.co.uk/life-style/b... The writer has a background in articles about travel, and skiing, but now fancies being an expert on who should mention the words 'autistic' or 'ADHD'/

With no hint of irony journalist tells people to stay in their lane whilst being wildly out of theirs. Self diagnosis is valid and necessary given the current state of services. #autism #disability www.independent.co.uk/life-style/b...

Typically people with #LearningDisabilities will be the last to know about changes which may affect them. #EasyRead is not an optional extra it is a right.

I just signed this petition calling for a new admissions unit for people having a mental health emergency that's separate from A&E. Will you sign too? my.uplift.ie/petitions/ad...

Our learning pathways take you on a walk in our shoes. Learn about school-induced anxiety, neuronormative domination, behaviorism, the double empathy problem, monotropism, the neurodivergent umbrella, the neurodiversity Smorgasbord, & more in this scrollytelling adventure.

@rcem.ac.uk @rcemlearning.bsky.social @rcphysicians.bsky.social @rcgp.bsky.social @rcpch.bsky.social @rcn.org.uk @dsa-uk.bsky.social

My beautiful sister with LD died when she was 28 after months of being very unwell. We were told "It's her epilepsy" or my particular fav "it's behaviour from her Learning Disability". NO, it was cancer and it was caught too late 🙁

Comrades! Now the audiobook's finally out, I have five codes for free audible copies of *Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism*. If you want one just like and share/quote this post. After 48 hours I'll pick five sharers at random to send the codes to.

Shameful 😥

Wenn Lawson is doing a webinar on monotropism with Lotus Collaborations next Tuesday (the 11th of March) at 18:30 GMT. Tickets are £5/£15/by donation. www.lotuscollaborations.co.uk/event-detail...

"ABA providers... are critical allies in the fight to ensure that profoundly autistic children and adults are appropriately supported across their lifespans"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... more claims that denying autistics rights, standards, etc, helps (vs harms) us, evidence-free, free

“I thought for many years that in my lifetime I would see America become a rogue state and that’s happened” Podcaster Gabriel Gatehouse expresses his shock after Presidents Trump and Zelensky's historic White House meeting, adding "this is a mafia shakedown". #Newsnight

'If we treat school as a machine for making progress, those who are atypical are spanners in the works.' www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Fabulous new research re autism and learning (intellectual) disability. It's about assent/consent, and how to get it right for everyone. www.liebertpub.com/doi/epub/10.... Lots of thought, good checklists and ideas. This is so important, isn't it.

#NATPmentalhealth Read about ripples of change we are creating www.annafreud.org/news/weve-se... And check find out who is trained in your Trust/service to help you upskill your colleagues and be the change you want to see in improving autistic people's outcomes -Actions, no more words.

Behaviourism & Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) and PECs..... There are other ways, alternative ways, better ways, and ways that embrace a person’s authentic neurodivergent identity, which honours autonomy and can help people thrive. Find out more: autisticrealms.com/behaviourism...

We did it! Threshold for Ireland reached. Well done #speirgorm. But keep signing and sharing as it all goes towards the 1 million signatures needed across the EU.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39901435/ CW suicide. This is important. Team writing re the link between lack of sleep, & autistic people taking their own lives from the despair of exhaustion. This research desperately needs to happen, because there's so much we are getting wrong for autistic people.