After a week of reading dissertations, a well earned stretch!

This time, sharing some of my spouse’s work :) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/vide...

So thrilled to launch this international online conference on body image and appearance pressures/ideals, Sept 16-18th 2025. Open to all scholars, incredibly low cost, and with two phenomenal keynote speakers ... please SHARE! To find out more: lgboothroyd.webspace.durham.ac.uk/perspectives...

LOVE this paper, featuring parents' neuro-affirming narratives about echolalia. My son's echolalia brings him JOY. Key message: 'Therapeutic' attempts to extinguish echolalia are cultural homogenisation. They deny the individual's autonomous identity. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

(1/2) New paper + thread Lots of research critiques parents' so-called inability to visually categorise their child's weight as higher/lower than the mid range. BUT ... HCPs (& people without kids) can't do this either! doi.org/10.1111/bjhp... It's a PERCEPTUAL phenomenon, so why blame parents?

Our recent paper (led by Phaedra Longhurst) argues that eating disorder measures lack validity for Autistic folks: leads to pathologising Autistic people's eating & missing EDs that don't present neurotypically. Validated, Autistic-led measures urgently needed! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Durham Cathedral illuminated for Remembrance Day - beautiful!

Delighted to join BSky after feeling really uncomfortable with Twitter for a while - glad to finally make the leap!