These meme challenges the simplistic idea that neurodiversity is a “strengths based” approach. Yes do identify the things you’re good at and do those things. But no don’t make access to respect and understanding something people have to earn with a specific talent.

So my keynote at #AECongress25 involved a lot of memes to illustrate my points about how to understand and apply the neurodiversity paradigm. The focus is on LIBERATION from OPPRESSIVE systems and beliefs. This will work best, I believe, when we COLLECTIVISE our action. Here we go…

I’m really looking forward to presenting my poster at the Autism-Europe Congress 2025! 🌟 Do come say hi—or get in touch if you’d like to connect or meet up during the conference. #AECongress2025 #AutismEurope #AutismCongress2025

In time for Disability Pride Month, @drmbothapsych.bsky.social’s thread on our Q-sort paper on how neurodivergent researchers understood what the neurodiversity movement is and should be (I loaded onto it being a social justice movement and led factor that it should promote genuine social inclusion)

New paper alert! We psychometrically validated the Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory. Please check it out. The main takeaways are below, but this has been such a wonderful project! Open access paper tinyurl.com/CATIAUTISM

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Handy new paper about the use of respectful language in ADHD research. Much needed, this discussion.

🌟 New paper out🌟 🔗 Open-access here lnkd.in/dFj997Ep Our RE-STAR team co-produced the ‘My Emotions in School Inventory (MESI)’ with Autistic and/or ADHD young people and tested this with 746 neurotypical and neurodivergent adolescents aged 11 to 16 years.

NEW PAPER (ish - I'm also just delayed) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Using Q Methodology, a Group of Neurodivergent Neurodiversity Researchers Ask: What is the Neurodiversity Movement and what should it do?

🚨 New publication! The first paper from my #PhD is now out! The A3ReAcH Framework is 12 principles for inclusive, accessible research for autistic, ADHD & AuDHD people. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New article out today: www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/... We examined verbal collaboration among autistic and non-autistic adults in same- and mixed-neurotype groups during a shared task.

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

Dr ‪@safriedman.bsky.social‬, Dr Sinéad McNally, and Dr @emmapritchard95.bsky.social‬ will participate in a panel discussion on "Neurodiversity-affirming play" at the #PEDALConference2025. Please see pedalhub.net/conference20... for more details about our talks and speakers - not long to go now!

Autistic voices wanted! Join our online workshop on 29 May (6–8pm) to share your lived experience and help shape research on housing, environment & mental health in neurodivergent families. Sign up: email me at [email protected], or scan the QR code below! #AutRes

🌟New article / rant for @theconversation.com 🌟 Why it's NOT true to say "everyone's a bit Autistic" theconversation.com/everyone-isn...

New paper alert! Information transfer within and between autistic and non-autistic people is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com nature.com/articles/s41... THREAD! 🧵⬇️

We'd love you to help us spread the word about the #PEDALConference2025. Please share this graphic to help make 2025's PEDAL Conference our best and biggest yet! Tickets always sell out, so book your place soon at pedalhub.net/conference2025 🎟️

New paper alert: ‘It just feels unnatural being here’: Autistic secondary school students’ experiences of sensory sensitivities in the school environment. Price & Romualdez (2025) doi.org/10.1177/1362...

New article out on @theconversation.com on why many Autistic adults don't like puzzle pieces symbols being used to represent us: theconversation.com/why-the-auti... #Autism #ActuallyAutistic

Would you like to look at some pictures of outdoor scenes? 🌿🌳🌱 We’re looking for adult autistic participants for a study of preference for different landscapes. This is a unique opportunity to participate in autism research run by autistic researcher. research.sc/participant/...

Love these resources about neurodiversity-affirming autistic play !

New blog - Monotropism and Autistic Play autisticrealms.com/monotropism-... New resource page - Neuro-Affirming Autistic autisticrealms.com/autistic-pla...

Are you a UK-based teacher, support worker or teaching assistant who works with autistic children? A masters' student in my Faculty is doing some research into autistic social play and would really like to hear from you cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Episode 2 of our podcast series on #Neurodiversity and #QualitativeResearch is out today with Dr Monique Botha: why is the funding agenda for autism research so far from what the communities concerned want? #CommunityResearch #ResearchMethods #Neurodivergent www.quahrc.co.uk/resources/ne...

Delighted to share this new article, led by Elise Robinson, examining whether the dramatic principles of play, openness and togetherness could foster the socio-emotional wellbeing of a group of Autistic young people in a special school. #AutRes nasenjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New video with Christina O'Keeffe and Sinéad McNally talking about the recently published paper on a strengths-based understanding of the play of Autistic children. Watch the full video on our YouTube: youtu.be/62mVZ-VCoPw Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1177/1362...

Really pleased to have been part of the team who authored this new article: 'Applied Principles for Inclusive Practice in Neurodevelopmental Research: A Selection and Report of Illustrative Case Studies'. Huge thanks to @cjcrompton.bsky.social & @suereviews.bsky.social for bringing us all together!

Hi! I’m Charlotte Unwin and this is my dissertation project! This 15-min survey explores gender presentation across different contexts. More details in the link-thank you! Copy & paste to participate: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/dundee/241... #autres #autism #research #queer #queerresearch #study

🥳 New paper! "Conceptualizing Pathways to Depression and Anxiety in Autistic Youth Using the Cognitive and Behavioral Model of Low Self-Esteem" Below is the link to the open-access paper and a brief 🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please fill out this survey if you are autistic and into comics !

New paper in Autism in Adulthood led by Stephanie Petty, arising from our Inclusive Neurodiverse Campuses (INC) project. We reflect on actions that could remove barriers to employment (to a research position here) incorporating insights from both sides of the process. doi.org/10.1089/aut....

Happy to see this review of our new paper. 2500 views in just over a month. #Menopause www.bps.org.uk/research-dig...

This looks like a great conference! Call for abstracts is out, deadline is 28th February. medhumsplatform.org/call-for-abs... #Neurodiversity #NeurodiversityResearch #AutRes

Autistic? Into #comics? Our research project needs you! From occasional doodlers to published cartoonists, from casual readers to hardcore fans - we would love you to share your views! Take part in this research by clicking this link: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please share!

I'm excited that our new project about #autism and #comics got reported by the BBC! If you're autistic and into comics, #manga or graphic novels please check it out - there's a link in the article to a research survey. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Call for participants Jared Richards research on autistic burnout. - seeking autistic adults to take part in an online research study about autistic burnout. - used to create a community-informed survey on autistic burnout.

In less than two weeks, over 1600 hits. Thanks for sharing! Quick link: tinyurl.com/AutMenopause #AutisticMenopause #IncludeMyMenopause

New paper: autistic ppl found stimming to be positive when not self-injurious nor stigmatized (latter led to masking). Most felt stimming helped their friendships w/ & connections to other autistics, in part through inferring others’ emotions from their stimming. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Fantastic news that the Autism Centre for Education and Research (ACER)'s Professor Karen Guldberg has been announced as the Chair of the Department for Education's new Neurodivergence Task and Finish Group 👏 www.gov.uk/government/n...

#Thread Wouldn’t it be wonderful if an autism assessment captured #Autistic strengths and joys rather than focusing purely on perceived deficits? This happens rarely. In the 6 years since my late-in-life diagnosis I’ve come to appreciate many positive and enriching dimensions of being Autistic.

This is an excellent longread from @ferrousmu.bsky.social, tapping into multiple pressing issues such as trust in autism research, the collapse in objective fact, post-truth and more.

Our team is collecting data on autistic wellbeing, masking and social media- if you are #autistic pls consider taking part redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=9...

If the journal article is inaccessible for you , check out this blog post on our autistic play research

Hello! Thought I’d introduce myself. I do research related to neurodiversity (including autism). My PhD looked at autistic play and diagnostic assessments from a neurodiversity-affirming perspective. I’m currently on a postdoc at Cambridge.

Thank you for sharing The Adult Autism Assessment Handbook which has been written by some members of the Thriving Autistic Team and www.adultautism.ie Written from a neurodiversity-affirming perspective! Available here: amzn.eu/d/bwQWN7Z

🥳 Check out our new article introducing neurodiversity research--for kids! Frontiers For Young Minds is a peer-reviewed scientific journal for kids, with young reviewers (+ adults). With @cjcrompton.bsky.social @katiecebula.bsky.social @suereviews.bsky.social kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

🗞️🗞️NEW PAPER🗞️🗞️ "medical education will fundamentally fail in its mission to support neurodivergent learners unless we undergo a significant transformation" Read free: asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #MedEd @autisticdoctor.bsky.social @asmeofficial.bsky.social

Thanks to all who've taken part in interviews - we're now recruiting for the next study phase, which involves sharing images & captions to a private social media account for 4 months. Eligibility: identify as autistic, aged 16-26, currently live in the UK, some experience with using social media

There's so many autism research (#AutRes) accounts on Bluesky that I now have two Starter Packs! go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA go.bsky.app/Pfbbvot And HUGE apologies if I'm missing people. I've gone from 300 to 2k followers in a week, and my notifications are out of control 😱

What is neurodiversity? What does it mean for how we each go about our daily activities? We've written an article for young people, but hopefully a useful primer for all :) By @aalcorn.bsky.social, @katiecebula.bsky.social, @suereviews.bsky.social and me. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Really excited to share Autistica's new two-minute film highlighting our vision and how the right research can change the world. (Featuring a really scary "neurotypical" job interviewer and her equally scary final-remnants-of-a-fringe... 👀) www.autistica.org.uk/news/autisti...