Human thriving is incompatible with hate, fear-mongering, or coercive systems. We stand for Safety, Dignity & Freedom We are building spaces where neurodivergent people can heal, connect, and lead. Read our solidarity statement: www.thrivingautistic.org/solidarity/

We are delighted to share two new neuro-affirming educational animation films about Autistic Experiences. Find out more, watch the films and read our blogs: 1.Discovering You're Autistic 2.Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic www.thrivingautistic.org/autistic-exp...

Just updated my Launches page to include links to the animations and associated blog posts, now that they're online! I think you can also buy Someone Like Me as an ebook already, and if you pre-order it now you can probably get it at launch (Thursday). #Autistic #BookSky oolong.co.uk/launches-2025/

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Lamp Room at teamLab Borderless in Tokyo, Japan

Hydrangea and Genji firefly. Japan

📢 Really pleased to announce that with the wonderful Jessica Andexer, we will be offering a mindfulness session for neurodivergent people on 6th October, 5.00-6.30pm UK time 🙏 Free to attend for all ND people, register using the link below 👇 #autism #ADHD www.cheetahhouse.org/nimin

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

Just out - new educational animation films about Autistic Experiences that I have been working on with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social team - would love to hear your feedback! Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic youtu.be/3O6hy-usIug?...

📢 Really pleased to announce that with the wonderful Jessica Andexer, we will be offering a mindfulness session for neurodivergent people on 6th October, 5.00-6.30pm UK time 🙏 Free to attend for all ND people, register using the link below 👇 #autism #ADHD www.cheetahhouse.org/nimin

When we posted this a couple of weeks ago, we had some AI enthusiasts insist that this diagram was the result of poor prompting, or that the prompt that the original poster made was to generate a funny, bad diagram. So we decided to test ChatGPT's capability...

Hurrah! We can finally share the animations I have been working on with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic Please do let us know what you think and share if you find valuable! youtu.be/3O6hy-usIug?...

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?...

"I practice self-care by turning off the news periodically, and stepping back from the world. I made the realization that in my fight for justice, I was hurting my own mental health." Autistic academic TC Waisman on self-compassion and resilience, at TPGA: thinkingautismguide.com/2025/09/cher...

You can read the Discovery Programme evaluation report here now: www.thrivingautistic.org/discovery-ev...

Read more about the Discovery Programme here: www.thrivingautistic.org/discovery-pr... It's something like a more organised, Irish, 2025 version of what @scrappapertiger.bsky.social and I pulled together in 2017 for people who'd recently discovered they're autistic.

The other animation is Lightbulb Moments: Being Autistic. So much about Autistic experience is still missing from most professional accounts, which have been formulated from the outside. Many people talk about all these little epiphanies: 'I thought it was just me!' www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O6h...

First up is Discovering You're Autistic, about the experience of realising you're autistic, and the things we've found most valuable for anyone starting out on that journay. Realising that there are many other people out there with similar experiences is so powerful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eDv...

Deleted my account. Go to the Home page and the pop up to accept ToS will appear. Click on ‘Privacy settings’ - NOT on ‘Agree’. You can then access your Profile Settings in the top right of the screen and delete your account.

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

Last day to get your free ticket to @thrivingautistic.bsky.social 's community event which is happening tomorrow. We will be sharing information about the Discovery Programme for Autistic adults & also premiering 2 new animations I have been working on with a fabulous team!

“When I am ready, I speak by dancing or writing. It’s easier than speaking.” This statement isn’t about what’s missing. It’s about what’s present, movement, silence, dance, writing. All of it matters.

Hope you can join us! FREE tickets! A great opportunity to watch the 2 new animations about being Autistic that I've been working on with @iara-abigalil.bsky.social, @fergus.oolong.co.uk , @scrappapertiger.bsky.social , @jessicakdoyle.bsky.social, Laura Buckland Mason & @somebodysomeone.bsky.social

I'm really appreciating the feeling of things finally coming to fruition, after about a year and a half of collaborating on chapters and animations. Here are some events that I'm looking forward to: oolong.co.uk/launches-2024/

No. Absolutely no. Research with human participants takes a huge amount of care and time, and rightly so. AI generated data will give sprurious results by design. This is appalling.

On Oct 21st I will be in #Manchester for two events. The first is called Hope in the Dark, How a daring team of sexologists built the world’s first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich. Finding #hope and #joy in #transrights history 🗃️ blogs.manchester.ac.uk/chstm/2025/0...

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

Explore how Autistic people may experience grief differently & discover affirming resources & support. https://autisticrealms.com/being-autistic-shapes-grief-explore-unique-paths-through-loss-and-affirming-support/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

This woman will be protected by generations of crows h/t: Autumn Buck / firstdatejunkie

This is brilliant: "if you just want to know if this is your brain style and neurotype, and if autism can explain all the questions you’ve had about yourself, no one knows you better than you do! You can self-identify the way your brain works." formal evaluation isn't for everyone

Journal publishers *are* bundling your papers up in "data licensing agreements" for big tech companies to use for AI model training. Our publisher, T&F, got £75m from Microsoft for that last year alone.

I have been working on 2 educational animation films about Autistic experiences with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social 's team We will be premiering these during the Discovery Celebration event. FREE TICKETS Thursday 18th September 2025 7–8:45pm Irish/UK time www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discovery-...

I like these people in Molly Burford's book Moments to Hold Close

My hunch is that if Zack Polanski's Greens or the Corbyn Party were platforming quite this level of crank madness about cancer in the Royal Family, they would get quite a lot of heat for doing so

Please help save lives by signing this petition & sharing petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026 This is a fantastic way to educate children It’s a form of resistance. Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more. These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.

Make it #neuro-affirming! @autisticrealms.bsky.social & @tanyaadkin.bsky.social explain how: autisticrealms.com/neuro-affirm...

This is absolutely beautiful. And if you're working with children or young people and would like to be like Miss Webster, the International Rescue Committee's free 'Healing Classrooms' programme has lots of supportive, inclusive and welcoming ideas. Sign up here: www.rescue.org/uk/irc-uks-h...

💗 Beautiful and powerful 💗 Thank you Bella and Ben. ⬇️

We are now accepting expressions of interest for our new Discovery Programme cohorts! Join our supportive 6-week online programme with other newly identified Autistic adults (self ID welcome, groups for different ages including 55+ yrs). Find out more: www.thrivingautistic.org/discovery-pr...

Love this: "Every day, GPs synthesise stories, navigate uncertainty, and invent new ways to help — often with limited time and tools. It’s clinical jazz." "When senior GPs share their own doubts or struggles, it opens a space for honesty and solidarity."

New term? Wanting to learn something new? You may wish to sign up for October's #CRAEwebinar. Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism, Alexithymia, and the Underlying Psychological Mechanisms with @connortkeating.bsky.social Thur 2nd Oct 4 pm BST

Thank you to everyone who has taken part in our survey about autistic adults experiences of dance, 💃🕺 and to all who shared the flyer and helped promote the study. Over 100 people took part and we are now starting to analyse the data. So grateful to everyone who shared their experiences 🙏

💃 Our survey is closing at 9am Monday 1 September, last chance to take part ⬇️⬇️⬇️ @erinbeeston.bsky.social @drdon.bsky.social @thrivingautistic.bsky.social @autisticrealms.bsky.social 🎶💃🕺💃🎶 #autistic #autres #dancing

Participants welcomed until Monday!

Her 2009 @autscape.org presentation promised to "suggest tactics for carrying out effective actions from a position of apparent disempowerment, focussing on dealing with incompleteness, uncertainty and inconsistency in a world fraught with arrogance, hypocrisy and ignorance."

📢 Final day to take part in our survey on dance (about whether you love it or hate it!) ⬇️ 💃🕺🎶

Just re-upping this. The world feels very grim at the moment but watching this young, disabled-, queer- and ND-inclusive community grow reminds me things aren't all bad. They're getting closer to opening but any help makes it easier. Non-profit, volunteer-led, general force for good in the world 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️♾️

In the late 1940s, early 1950s the top tax rate for the very rich was over 90% and the NHS, Welfare State, massive council house build, nationalisation of public utilities were all very "sustainable" meme vai Durah Ashton