“This paper is about doing research with artists with learning disabilities and autism. Artists with learning disabilities or autism need to say yes to doing research.” Matthew Reason, Kelsie Acton, Daniel Foulds performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm...

Interesting take Human Consciousness in a Cybernetic Age Or Why Logos is Not a Loom: My Mind-at-Large Conference Presentation Matthew David Segall footnotes2plato.substack.com/p/human-cons...

They just dropped a music video/documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...

Hard agree with rimidar on this. In fact, nothing has discredited wistful conservativism more to me than seeing people start to do it about times I lived through. Yeah the n64 was pretty dope when I was 10 years old, I guess; don't really think that should drive our immigration policy tho you loser.

Nice to see Ian McGilchrist’s nonsense (especially the left brain/right brain 🐂 💩 ) getting a right kicking here… open.spotify.com/episode/5wC3...

think I've said this before but really dig that Bart Hopkin (of the sadly long gone Experimental Musical Instruments zine) has started a youtube channel... bunch of wild and beautifully dissonant zithers here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY7E...

“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Spending a quiet moment at St Julian’s Church and Shrine. This is where the anchoress Julian of Norwich wrote Revelations of Divine Love in the 14th century, the first book in English known to be written by a woman. ​"...All manner of thing shall be well." ✨ #JulianofNorwich #Numinous #Mysticism

The Rebel Body: The Subversive Meanings of Illness Nancy Scheper‑Hughes, Julia Vorhölter, Amand‑Gabriel Führer link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pharmacological Microcontroversies and Civilizational Grammars Around ADHD in Chile Esteban Radiszcz, Hugo Sir, Juan Pablo Pinto Paywall: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

One hour interview about my new book Intertwined Creatures. Watch at your own risk. (The main risk is hearing me say dumb shit.) youtu.be/j8rHowYx3HA

Sofia Jeppsson and I have a new publication: "Mad Philosophy" in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Find the full Ancient Egypt and Disability zine free here : linktr.ee/disabilityark #disabilitystudies #ancientegypt #egyptology #egypt #disability

This friday FREE launch of new book about survivor activist and movement founder Peter Campbell book here 5pm this Friday online! janinebooth.com/event/peter-...

In another massive data set of more than 1.5 million children ‌born between 1997 and 2022, the use of Tylenol during pregnancy was NOT associated with autism, even after accounting for ​individual risk factors. Autism was diagnosed in 1.8% of children exposed to Tylenol and 3% of the unexposed group.

Ambivalent Tolman: Indirect Influence on Enactivism of Tolman's Sign-Gestaltism Through Merleau-Ponty Hiroshi Matsui, Kohei Yanagawa onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Really enjoyed chatting about a Drive to Survive with Carrie Figdor for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social and @mitpress.bsky.social podcast! newbooksnetwork.com/kathryn-nave...

Are you a parent of a child in the CAMHS age bracket (ages 5-18) and they are suffering from OCD? We are hosting an online parent workshop on Thursday 23rd April. To book a ticket, or read more about what the workshops cover, click here https://www.ocduk.org/parents-project-online-workshops/

Personally view much of current neurodiversity discourse (and research) as ‘first-wave neurodiversity’ - a bit like first-wave feminism. The intersectionality of co-occurring diagnoses (which most of us have) is disregarded. Certain diagnoses considered superordinate, others subordinate.

“It's worth noting synaesthesia is not an illness or disorder. And it doesn't cause harm or impairment, although some people may find their synaesthesia overwhelming at times.” Wow. Now compare and contrast with how the media talks about another (significantly overlapping) neurodivergence: Autism.

I'm now on Beehiiv. An ethical alternative to Substack. Please subscribe to keep up to date with my latest journalism. I aim to publish 1-2 new (in-depth) articles a week here. Please share. sophie-molly-reports.beehiiv.com/p/the-annihi...

Celebratory dance in Hungary

While the phrase ‘autism is not a mental illness’ may be strictly true, it will tell you nothing about the autistic person in a clinical setting. Many of us have multiply diagnoses, some attendant diagnoses can cause perturbation or distress. This is my lived experience.

Jimi Hendrix's Analog Wizardry Explained - IEEE Spectrum

“This study found that significant differences in classification distributions may exist between child and adolescent psychiatric clinics in Germany and the Netherlands.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Really interesting talk by Clarissa Muller-Kosmarov on the challenges created to Merleau-Ponty’s ‘Body Schema’ when one experiences “episodic disabilities.” In this case Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Starts 1hr 15 mins / www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ibN...

This is very much worth a read. open.substack.com/pub/jennmjac...

Taken from, A Guide for FASD Self-Advocates Pdf here: fasdunited.org/wp-content/u...

Sad news about Asha Bhosle the sound of Bollywood m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3CW...

"COIs continue to be pervasive in ABA autism intervention research, and most remain undisclosed. Most alarmingly, the practice of falsely claiming not to hold COIs remains entrenched in this field of research and appears to have worsened over time" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... an update

Personally find both sides of the “severe” or “profound” autism debate uncompelling with a populist rhetoric that often recruits the trauma and lived experience of others. One side ignores the intersection of co-occurring diagnoses, the other side carves people at the joints of their diagnoses.

'Personnel is policy' applies to rank-and-file police and law enforcement prisonculture.substack.com/p/prisons-pr...

“We would talk about the vision of the sound. The Octavia, for instance: it’s like what you see when you hold two mirrors in front of each other” Roger Mayer: “Jimi and I had synaesthesia - we would see colours in sound” www.musicradar.com/news/roger-m...

Not entirely blown away by the discovery that the moon looks the same from all angles.

Rejection sensitivity dysphoria: a critical reflection A. Van Asselt www.tijdschriftvoorpsychiatrie.nl/en/artikelen...

Dictionary definitions. Spot the difference:- Dysfunction: abnormality or impairment in the operation of a specified bodily organ or system Impairment: the state or quality of having a physical or mental condition that limits a specified faculty or function

Again/st the Mad Subject Simon Adams onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Cc: @medicinered.bsky.social

More common hallucinations experiences to brighten up your feed! Sleep-related hallucinations are know as Hypnogogic (falling asleep) & Hypnopompic (waking up). There very common in the general population & don’t mean you’re experiencing a mental health problem. youtube.com/shorts/lvM0Z...

Mental and physical illnesses go hand in hand. A new genetic study explains why medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04...

Why some children with learning difficulties get identified – and others don’t theconversation.com/why-some-chi...

All that supremacist stuff about autistics being inherently more honest than everyone else etc. was always going to end here.

“50%–94% of children with FASD meet the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-fifth edition diagnostic criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).” bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/4...

hell yeah www.youtube.com/watch?v=voqC...

A gentle (re?)-launch of my YouTube channel with a recording of a presentation on some of my PhD findings. I am hoping to create more videos. Some may be related to my research directly, others more broad reflections on autism, research methods & researcher experiences. Very much open to ideas. 😊

I like the term ‘normalcy paradigm’ in Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction, (Chapman, Fletcher-Watson). Some neurodisabilities arise due to the toxic effects of modern warfare where the cause is pathological colonialism/imperialism. /

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

My great-aunt shot Mussolini in the face www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some neurodevelopmental disabilities (neurodivergence) occur due to the effects of war - see research on neuro-disabilities in Vietnam, Iraq and Gaza for examples. Neurodiversity advocacy should be unconcerned with regards to aetiology.

We (@edbaggs.bsky.social, @segundo-ortin.bsky.social, @guicogsci.bsky.social, & I) have organised the conference "Dimensions of Radical Embodiment" for the last few years [Stay tuned for the next one!]. And we just edited a special issue around it. Here's the intro: link.springer.com/article/10.1...