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Added signatutre and sharing widely :) Important work.

📢The 3rd Edition of the SPELL framework is now available for pre-order from Pavilion Publishing! The SPELL framework is an ethical and socially valid mechanism for understanding and responding to autism. It is hopeful, honest, respectful, ethical - and individual. pavpub.com?s=SPELL&post... 1/

I was recently approached by the team behind a campaign to make a short film on non-attendance at school, Jo Clayton and Natalie Lauren Woodward. Jo's short script about the #attendance crisis - Unauthorised Absence - is a finalist for the IMDB Script to Screen Award 2025. 1/

If you read one thing this weekend, read this. The way we treat young people who are a little 'different' is endlessly shocking. With thanks and respect to Kate Szymankiewicz. From theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We offer consultancy across all aspects of autism and neurodivergence – supporting individuals, families, professionals and organisations. From inclusive environments to service design and strategy, our team provides evidence-informed, practical advice. Learn more: www.atautism.org

Another Panther kitten leaving the nest this morning on a local delivery, alongside a selection of beers shipping to Yorkshire. Our Panther 5 litre mini casks are available online until they're gone. We only produced a very limited quantity. UK shipping available. www.cottagebeerproject.co.uk

Can recommend!

Huge thanks to the venerable @annmemmott.bsky.social for posting threads on each session of @at-autism.bsky.social's #AutismArtOfThePossible conference yesterday. What an incredible day. Get yourself a cup of tea and have a read.

🥺 yay to more international neurodiversity experts, this is how we win!

How to get star struck at an Autism conference? Sit at a table with Damian Milton 😅 #AutismArtOfThePossible

Incredibly inspiring morning #AutismArtOfThePossible @at-autism.bsky.social from schools to hospitals & social care - working with compassion, empathy, rights based approaches and team work across professions enriching the lives of autistic people 💕

#AutismArtOfThePossible From my perspective, a really fabulous conference with so many good speakers and vital topics. Do get in contact with @at-autism.bsky.social and team if you need further information, ideas and signposting.

#AutismArtOfThePossible Final conference thread - Dr Damian Milton, sociologist and social psychologist who specialises in autism research, and is an autism rights advocate. He is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent and chair of the Participatory Autism Research Collective (PARC)/

#AutismArtOfThePossible Next part of this fabulous conference from @at-autism.bsky.social with Alia Lewis and Ken Greaves. Alia starting by describing her specialist work at Family Law Advice for the Neurodivergent Community (FLANC). flanc.org.uk

''Kasibba was the holder of her own human rights' #AutismArtOfThePossible

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... is one link to Kasibba's story. It's daunting to read, and what a total mess, eh? So many people describing Kasibba in dreadful and frankly racist ways, before people rethought autism, learned new perspectives, and made a huge difference/

#AutismArtOfThePossible Andrew Reece & Lucy Dunstan, next. Bios can be found at www.atautism.org/at-autism-co... Andrew begins by talking about Kasibba, and the journey to get her out of hospital. Huge fees, stress & effort against barriers, but Camden managed it. How?../

#AutismArtOfThePossible Ruth Moyse talks about her past research on autistic children and schools. Every child who wasn't able to attend school said they wished they could attend. But they can't do it. It's impossible for them. It's not school 'refusal'. They can't access the school.

Today, cheering on the speakers at #AutismArtOfThePossible conference. They'll be discussing how to change people's attitudes and views... how to get people into homes, not hospitals.... how to embrace change in systems... and Damian Milton will be talking about participatory research/

That's for this coverage! Your commentary shows i spoke as intended. Always a relief!

Next thread on #AutismArtOfThePossible, with speaker Zahilah Filzah, who worked as a consultant paediatrician and advisor to the Court for Children in Malaysia. She is the founder of The Ark Autism Centre, which supports autistic individuals and their families from low-income communities/

Thread on the #AutismArtOfThePossible conference held 8 October 2025 in Westminster by the fabulous team at @at-autism.bsky.social @drruthmoyse.bsky.social is opening the autism conference, with Nicola Martin. Making clear this is based on a strengths-based, 'universal design' approach to change/

Happening this evening! Do join us.

Still time to buy livestream or on demand tickets! #AutismArtOfThePossible

The research finding no increased 'risk' of autism if acetaminophen taken during pregnancy is available, eg this study. Not suppressed. The narrative that autism is something to be feared and prevented is offensive and uneducated scaremongering. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Too many autistic people are detained in hospitals for years. At our conference "Autism: The Art of the Possible", Andrew Reece, Lucy Dunstan and Linda Woodcock will explore how we make Homes not Hospitals a reality. 📅 Wed 8th Oct, London 🎟️ Tickets: www.atautism.org/at-autism-co...

Hurrah! We can finally share the animations I have been working on with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social First short film is: Discovering You're Autistic Please do let us know what you think and share if you find valuable! youtu.be/-eDv2omDMko?...

Getting excited about this conference now, just 3 weeks away! Hope you can join us.

Come and talk to us about the National Autism Trainer Programme #AEC2025 #AECongress2025 P.3.01.18 #NATPMentalHealth

The #Affinity programme was one of the effective and impactful short programmes I have ever experienced. Great partnership between @AT-Autism and #ScottishAutism - Outstanding teamwork.

I've written a lot about disordered discourse and counterpublics, but given recent events I want to cover a key part of disordered discourse, which I call the four pillars of disordered doubt.

Don't miss this. The wonderful partnership between AT-Autism and Anna Freud trained over 5000 #mentalhealth and other professionals across a range of settings #autism

4 weeks until AT-Autism's conference on 8th Oct: ➡️Autism: the Art of the Possible. We have 10 fantastic speakers and a wonderful range of delegates - hope you can join us.

Off to #AEC2025 tomorrow with most of the @at-autism.bsky.social team! We'd love to connect - find us here: ⭐ Symposium, led by UCL's Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou, discussion by me: Fri 10am, Hall 6, S2.01.01 'A neurodiversity-informed approach in mental health research and training: if so, how?' 1/4

Just 4 weeks to go! Join us on 8 Oct for Autism: The Art of the Possible – a day of talks & discussions on what we can do to support autistic people. 🎟️ Learn more and book your tickets: www.atautism.org/at-autism-co...

The @at-autism.bsky.social team are heading over to Dublin next week for the #AEC2025. Looking forward to sharing findings from our co-developed and co-delivered #NATPmentalhealth programme, and catching up with the latest research.

Much of the current debate around speech, and the government’s response, misses the deeper issue: society’s information systems have shifted. Epistemic judgements are now shaped by algorithmic visibility rather than through gatekeeping institutions. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

The monthly peer chat group, exclusively for older #autistic people, is on this Thur Sept 4th, 11am-noon. It's an #AutisticElders peer group chat, not a lecture. This month's theme is Autistic elders in non-autistic groups. It's free, but register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This is my flag.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

My full statement on the Gaza Famine :

📢Just 7 more weeks until @at-autism.bsky.social conference. Have you got your tickets? We'll be focusing talks and discussions on examples of what we can each do to best support autistic people, even when barriers seem insurmountable. #AutismArtOfThePossible www.atautism.org/at-autism-co...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Really proud that @journalautism.bsky.social published this... ...but also flabbergasted that we are still having to refute this. www.sagepub.com/explore-our-...