Autistics (vs non-autistics) "are less likely to make errors in self-assessments of their cognitive performance"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "findings provide valuable insights into both the cognitive strengths of autistic individuals and the mechanisms underlying metacognitive biases"

No, "old age" in autism does not start at 50 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Given these distinctions between midlife and old age, autism researchers must move away from referring to all people over the age of 50 as ‘older adults’ and begin to label their samples more accurately"

"preliminary evidence" that "ABA therapy may be associated with increased odds of mental health hospitalizations and more frequent hospital stays among autistic youth" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "future inquiry into the safety of ABA and who may or may not be harmed by it is essential..."

Registered: systematic review aiming "to synthesize the existing qualitative research on the lived experience of transgender autistic people" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... including "mental health, experiences and responses to discrimination, identity development, masking/identity concealment"

BCBAs endorsing "pseudo-ABA" terminology? "Failing to detect nuanced differences in technical language may lead practitioners to endorse interventions that sound behaviorally appropriate but do not adhere to established principles of ABA"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... autism-relevant?

"studies have found little evidence for uniformly increased sensory precision in autism, but instead point to aberrant context-sensitive modulation of prediction errors"? which explains "why autism is associated with both hyper- & hyporeactivity to sensory input"? www.cell.com/trends/cogni... review

"Our findings point to previously unknown strengths in autistic children who are minimally speaking across statistical learning and social attention, suggesting that spoken language differences in this population might be unrelated to these domains" www.nature.com/articles/s41... free

In autistics aged 8-21 years, "older age was associated with more challenges in adaptive functioning"? acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... autistics "may not develop adaptive functioning skills at the same rate as their non-autistic peers, resulting in an increasing discrepancy with age"?

"The prevalence of autistic people in generic inpatient settings is much higher than estimates for autistic people in the general population. High levels of heterogeneity mean we cannot be exact, but we estimate the prevalence rate to be between 6 and 16%" link.springer.com/article/10.1... free

"Burnout as experienced by autistic people is characterised by profound exhaustion, loss of functional abilities, and a chronic course marked by intermittent crises, with impacts on sensory, emotional, cognitive, and daily life functioning" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... systematic review

Registered: nonpharmacological interventions for young autistic children, systematic review update www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... aims to "Summarize the quality & risk of bias of autism early childhood intervention literature" "Track the reporting of adverse events, adverse effects & harms" etc

On ability vs propensity ("frequency & depth with which an individual actually tends to perform a function") www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... e.g., autistics "are able to represent what others think of them, but have a reduced propensity to allow this information alone to dictate their actions"

In autism &/or ADHD, the emotional burden hypothesis--"an explanation of depression risk... not in terms of regulatory deficits within the individual but rather to their experiences of extrinsic adverse events and encounters in their everyday lives" acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... free

"In multifeature designs, autistic adults showed larger MMN amplitudes, whereas autistic children and adolescents displayed reduced MMN amplitudes"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "findings may reflect a developmental shift toward high and inflexible prediction errors in autistic adults"?

Replicating previous findings, "autistic adults were more prosocial than non-autistic adults towards more socially distant others" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "While autistic people often face challenges navigating their social worlds, autism can also be associated with more generosity"

Finding "autistic girls experienced more anxiety problems than autistic boys... this difference slightly increased with age and IQ" & not finding "strong evidence for sex/gender differences in overall internalizing problems or depression symptoms"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

Registered: "average age at autism diagnosis" & "factors that influence average age at autism diagnosis (e.g., geographical location, socioeconomic status, gender identity, co-occurring mental health, year of publication)" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review of studies from 2019-25

"to avoid ableist language" using "meltdowns" instead of "challenging behavior"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... & meltdowns in autism are "actions posing physical or emotional harm to the individual or others that impacted learning or functioning. This could include stereotypy or stimming..."?

Autistics "are generally safe drivers, with similar-to-lower rates of police-reported crashes and moving violations as non-autistic peers"--so the authors claim that autistic drivers need "additional supports" "specialized guidance & training" etc? link.springer.com/article/10.1... qualitative study

Co-occurring autism, catatonia, & psychosis?--scoping review finds 17 papers, free link.springer.com/article/10.1... "studies failed to describe how the three diagnostic constructs were differentiated from each other" "symptoms were somewhat arbitrarily attributed to one construct versus the other"

Autistic children deprioritize faces in arrays of images? psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... autistics "tend to visually explore images containing social and nonsocial information in a more heterogeneous way than NT individuals, whose visual attention is rapidly and homogenously captured by faces"

Behavior analysts are still suppressing echolalia in autism?--"any echolalic response" resulted in autistics (age 3 years) being told to "shh" or being ignored "until the participant was free from this behavior for 3 consecutive seconds" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ABA in 2025, COIs

Autism, multilingualism, & language-switching--online survey, free link.springer.com/article/10.1... autistic adults are "active and engaged users of multiple languages" & "comparably multilingual to non-autistic individuals, and in some cases even more so, but they are also frequent code-switchers"

Registered: is "ADHD and/or autism associated with greater frequency and/or intensity of exposures to adverse childhood experiences or traumatic events" & are "the rates of PTSD higher in autism and/or ADHD than in the general population" etc www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

RUBIES (ABA-based paraeducator training) vs PASS ("active comparator") for autistic students? "RUBIES uniquely increased paraeducator current and future confidence in addressing students’ externalizing behaviors"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... but no group differences in autistic outcomes

Autism & acetaminophen, editorial acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "most associations between prenatal exposures & autism... should not be interpreted as implying a causal relationship... There is abundant evidence that residual confounding & confounding by genetic factors is pervasive"

"psychosocial interventions have... been viewed as relatively benign--largely under the assumption that, at worst, they might prove ineffective or impose unnecessary costs" but "they can, in fact, carry significant risks of harm" acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... autism-relevant, free

Autistics (age 4-18) on their experiences in school journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "feeling insufficiently challenged was reported by our participants across both mainstream and specialist settings alike. This finding may be driven by the presumption of limited competence held by schools..."

Registered: "therapeutic interventions that are offered in psychiatric inpatient care for autistic young people" (age 0-18)--scoping review www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... "...inpatient hospitalisation can be a traumatic experience and comes with significant challenges for autistic individuals"

"development and mastery of calendar calculation in autism are driven by the orientation of the innate linguistic cognitive resources toward an equivalent complex symbolic system"? psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... how calendar calculation is possible & why it occurs in autism, a language model, free

Registered: for autistics under age 18 years, aiming to "identify, evaluate, and synthesise published evidence on the management of catatonia" ("including pharmacological..., ECT, behavioral/psychological, or supportive/environmental strategies") www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

Imposter participants "may be pervasive across any online research opportunity, especially those which involve a payment incentive, including quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, online focus groups, and PPIE opportunities" acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... autism-relevant, free

For autism interventions, "there has been a view, persisting in some settings, that rigorous research designs are less possible, necessary, or applicable..." & "that ethical and practical challenges limit the use of such methods" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... INSAR SIG report, free

Both autistics & non-autistics show "a robust self-bias in effort-based decisions, choosing to exert more effort for themselves than for others..."? "neither group showed overall differences between same & different neurotype others when making decisions"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

"clothing-related tactile sensitivity has significant, widespread effects on autistic adults’ lives including their appearance satisfaction, self-esteem, and their clothing options and choices"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... based on online survey results, mixed methods study, free

In an autistic child (age 5), targeting "whining" ("Emission of dissatisfied statements or sounds 2.5s or longer at speech level volume or higher") & crying ("Tears and facial contortions with or without vocal accompaniment") as "problem behavior"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ABA in 2025

"Supporting Toddlers with a connection to autism or ADHD to develop strong Attention, Regulation and Thinking skills" (START)?--"a neurodiversity-affirming programme"? with "extensive patient and public involvement"? pilotfeasibilitystudies.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... feasibility RCT protocol

Registered: aiming to "add on to existing knowledge regarding camouflaging in autism by understanding if and how language and communication challenges, specifically language or verbal ability, influence camouflaging" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review of quantitative studies

"neither autism nor autism traits lead to suboptimal... decision-making" & "autism leads to less exploration while more autism traits did not (or even to more exploration)" molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... "results caution against extrapolating findings from trait studies to autism"

Aiming to "explain how, why, & when general practice supports autistic people, where this support is less than optimal, & why" & "develop guidance for general practices & autistic patients, to help improve healthcare" systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... realist review protocol

In the recent (2020-24) ABA literature, 176 articles reported on functional analyses, of which a total of 20 (11.36%) included any assessment of their social validity?--& "no articles... assessed client preferences for functional analyses"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... autism-relevant

"different developmental trajectories" in earlier- vs later-diagnosed autism? ("as relative terms"--"there is no consensus on age thresholds for early versus late diagnosis") www.nature.com/articles/s41... based on autistics born in 1999-2003 & diagnosed at age 5-17 years (see Fig 1)?

Autistics diagnosed with BPD on their experiences of inpatient mental health services, interviews, free link.springer.com/article/10.1... "The language used by the participants to describe their experiences of being inpatients led to a sense that they were not in a hospital but a prison"

"Prototypical autism as an asymmetric developmental bifurcation of information processing"?--based on "the contrast between social bias and the possibility of doing without it, in the sense that, during childhood, autism follows a non-socially biased path..." www.nature.com/articles/s41... free

Registered: "Is there a difference between gesture comprehension in autistic individuals compared to non-autistic individuals, and are there any variables that may moderate gesture comprehension in autistic individuals?" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

In school-aged children (N=37, age 5-12 years), "more negative first impressions of autistic compared to non-autistic children"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... "Children in this study rated the autistic children they viewed in brief video clips as more strange, mean, and less likeable..."?

In autistics, "dissociation between objectively measured perceptual sensitivity and self-reported sensory experiences" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "sensory challenges in autism are unlikely to be explained solely by increased low-level sensory input or basic perceptual sensitivity"

In autistics with vs without "regression," no differences on 4 outcomes--"composite social ability score, incidence of epilepsy, IQ at age five, and IQ in adulthood"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... note: "regression" included "definite & probable regression cases" (N=32/168 autistics; 19%)

On a numerosity task, autistics (vs non-autistics) "had shorter non-decision times... they took less time to process the stimuli and/or generate their responses" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... but in the general population, "no correlation between autism-related traits and non-decision time"

COI policies for medical journal editors & peer-reviewers, autism-relevant, free www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "journals rarely describe how disclosed interests are assessed, how they may influence the editorial process, and how journals enforce the consequences of policy violations"