"the kinds of embodied, relational, and epistemologically plural knowledge that autism research needs"?--editorial, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... yet more ("epistomologically plural") denigration of many (most?) autistic contributions as inauthentic, superficial, non-genuine, tokenistic

Registered: "Implementation & sustainability of social care interventions for autistic adults" where social care includes "personal care, housing... employment... social inclusion... advocacy... safeguarding... crisis prevention" etc www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... mixed methods systematic review

"Early and later onset autism may represent different subtypes"?--based on age of diagnosis (not "onset") & excluding "early" diagnosed autistics who lost their diagnosis "later" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... see Fig 1 for overlap across "early-autism" & "later-autism" & "no-autism" groups

The unethical promotion rapid prompting & its variants has harmed autistics a lot--& so has the unethical practice (as in this review) of denying any communication to any autistic who in the past has ever been subject to rapid prompting etc link.springer.com/article/10.1... ABA-based standards, free

"Behavioural overlap between autism and vision impairment is not just a diagnostic challenge; it reflects a more fundamental tension of how autism is currently defined" "can we define autism without over-relying on behaviours mediated by vision?" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... editorial, free

Registered: aiming to evaluate "the extent to which existing classroom behavior management systems may unintentionally marginalise or exclude autistic pupils" & "whether the evidence indicates a need for more neuro‑responsive approaches..." etc www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

Dear Autism in Adulthood: you're the most paywalled (inaccessible) autism journal. You finally post an open access paper. Many hours later you make it disappear, without any explanation. It has not come back. The paper's DOI exists but you have erased the paper. This is neurodiversity affirmative?

Autistic & non-autistic aphantasics describe their experiences www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... quote from an autistic: "I have a very good sense of direction, and when I imagine scenes in my mind, I mainly focus on where everything is relative to everything else, but not what it looks like"

Autistic (vs Williams syndrome & Down syndrome) 5-25 year-olds "use significantly more self-defeating humor"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Self-defeating humor... involves self-disparaging humor, that is, trying to integrate or gain approval by letting others mock and ridicule oneself"

"from the selection of experiments in this meta-analysis, it appears that the fMRI evidence for generally altered predictions/prediction errors in autism is inconsistent" "this picture could be indicative of a... need to develop more specific hypotheses"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

Autistics on early autism interventions, review, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... autistics "recalled mindless, repetitive, extensive training that was not enjoyable & felt like a punishment" "mentioned how the experience of being trained to comply negatively affected their life later" etc

Registered: "masking behaviors in autistic children and adolescents, the age that masking behaviors have been shown to begin, and how masking presents in high masking autistic youth"? www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review, age range 15 or younger, "formally diagnosed or self-identify"

Across 6 countries, "substantial cross-national variation in how authority, participation, and implementation are structured within national autism guidance systems"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... "differences reflect governance choices about expertise, legitimacy, and accountability..."?

Autistics on how they relate to autistics, online survey, free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Not all autistic individuals felt inherently compatible with other autistic people" "This study appears to be the first to highlight the presence of conflict within autistic–autistic relationships"

Caregiver-reported "wandering" in N=258 autistics, up to age 16? "45% never wandered, 41% wandered only in early childhood, and 14% wandered at least once in adolescence..."? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Public places were the most common locations from which adolescents wandered"?

A new "consensus" definition of "profound autism"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... 96% of participants (chosen as "experts," only 2 are autistic?) agreed that "profound autism" can be identified at age 8 and is "a life-long condition" (once "profound autism" at age 8, always "profound autism")?

Now there are "emotion dysregulation" subgroups in autism?-- "Global High" "High-Reactivity Dominant" "Moderate-Internalizing Dominant" "Global Low"? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... these 4 subgroups did not differ in "verbal ability, intellectual disability, or severity of autism traits"?

In autistics & others subject to ABA procedures, "renewal" of "challenging behavior" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "renewal can pose significant challenges for clinicians and caregivers implementing treatment"?--behavior analysts ignore harms to autistics from ABA procedures, again

Registered: in autistic children, "how do developmental trajectories and later outcomes differ between those who experience developmental regression and those who do not?" & "How is developmental regression defined and operationalized...?" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

"the label of autism carries stigma, atypical behaviour is stigmatised, and, as this exploratory study found, so are efforts to camouflage autistic traits, which are seen by non-autistic observers as less moral and acceptable compared to disclosure"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

The quality of systematic reviews in ABA journals, autism-relevant, free journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... "all eligible studies were rated as being of ‘critically low’ quality..." "The widespread absence of sufficiently comprehensive risk of bias assessment is... particularly concerning" etc

Are autism and aphantasia related?--autistics "are slightly more likely to report having weaker than average imagined sensations... but this association is weak, and any autistic individual might well report having vivid, weak or no visualisations at all" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

The "solitude-loneliness (SOLO) paradox" in autism? Autistics "appear to experience a distinctive imbalance. Despite expressing a stronger preference for solitude than their typically developing peers, they report heightened levels of loneliness"? link.springer.com/article/10.1... review, free

"on-task behavior" (as it is currently defined & measured) "could be a poor proxy for certain forms of academic engagement (e.g., work completion, accuracy)... care should be taken in using it as a measurement strategy or intervention goal" link.springer.com/article/10.1... autism-relevant

Deep brain stimulation for self-injury in N=6 autistics (age 7-14), long-term follow-up www.nature.com/articles/s41... "this work represents a foundational step toward establishing a novel treatment paradigm for children with the most severe and treatment-resistant forms of self-injurious behavior"?

Registered: "What are the motivations for camouflaging from the perspective of autistic individuals?" "Is there any evidence that different camouflaging strategies are associated with different motivations?" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

"This study aimed to qualitatively examine autistic people’s experiences of RCT participation, specifically regarding their random assignment to an antidepressant (sertraline) or placebo for their mental health, whilst blinded to treatment allocation" link.springer.com/article/10.1... free

Finding "about half of anauralics also experienced aphantasia and vice-versa" but "around a quarter to a fifth of individuals with absent imagery in one modality experienced typical or vivid/clear imagery in the alternate modality" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... autism-relevant, free

Authors use terrible standards (& a panel of "Autistic self-advocates") to promote ABA for autism link.springer.com/article/10.1... "evidence in support of the effectiveness of ABA interventions is strong"? "Anti-ABA sentiments & related campaigns may carry risks if they continue to build traction"?

Autism & ageing, systematic review, free www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "while many studies suggest broadly similar aging patterns between autistic and non-autistic adults, others indicate possible acceleration or attenuation in specific cognitive, neural, or health-related outcomes"

"The majority of autistic adolescents successfully acquired category structure & transferred this knowledge to novel stimuli" link.springer.com/article/10.1... "Contrary to our hypothesis, most participants’ categorization predominantly relied on prototype rather than exemplar-specific information"?

No, non-speaking autistics who communicate via typing are not "a fraud" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... the real problem, which this letter ignores, is hyping & selling & imposing "assisted" typing methods on autistics, without any regard for whether autistics are being helped or harmed

Registered: "Adverse events, adverse effects, and harms are important to monitor in autism intervention research. However, little is known about trends in monitoring over time, and the quality of protocols for doing so..." www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

Face processing in aphantasia, via self-report & task performance www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... aphantasics have higher Prosopagnosia Index scores, with 26-41% likely to be prosopagnosic (vs 0-1% of controls) & "exhibit impairments in face memory & face perception, but not face matching"?

Blood donation in autism, ADHD, dyslexia--survey onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "Neurodivergent individuals are (i) underrepresented in donor panels, (ii) likely to make fewer donations when a donor, (iii) likely to perceive blood donor selection as less fair and more discriminatory..."

Autistics "were not better at estimating the thoughts" of other autistics? autistics and non-autistics "were equally bad" at identifying who is autistic vs non-autistic? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "Contrary to our expectations, we found no evidence for a within-neurotype advantage"

"the language-perception chimera model is the first to explain the occurrence, nature, idiosyncrasies, combinations, and developmental trajectories of the majority of social, language, and repetitive features observed in prototypical autism"? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... free

"genetic medicine trials may be acceptable in Profound Autism... while untenable for more common forms of autism..."? (what forms?) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... commentary that claims 30% of autistics meet "Profound Autism" criteria, but also claims different criteria from the cited source

Registered: aiming to "build an age-sensitive profile of prevalence of mental health diagnoses in autistic women across time, and identify where needs may change or support may be most needed" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review

Daily living skills in "autistic people with average or higher cognitive ability"?--but reported FSIQ ranges down to 40 (see Fig 2) and 28% of the "autistic people" in this study "were never diagnosed with autism... across repeated assessments" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... free

Proportion of autistics with an ID diagnosis "decreased over a 20-year period, from 55.8% in 2001 to 6.7% in 2020"? "While the occurrence of ID in autism during this period was relatively stable, autism diagnoses increased by approximately 800%"? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... free

Behavior analysts require autistics (age 4) to complete an "attending protocol"--before each ABA trial, they must "place their hands under their legs"--& require autistics (age 4) to always imitate others when told ("do this" "say this") link.springer.com/article/10.1... this is ABA in 2026, free

"a core neural phenotype of autism that is shared across a large fraction of autistic individuals involves the reduced functional connectivity of sensorimotor areas and the increased functional connectivity of transmodal areas..."? www.nature.com/articles/s44... based on resting-state fMRI, free

Warning signs of suicide in autistic people, scoping review, free link.springer.com/article/10.1... finding "most sources were books or book chapters. Only one source explicitly defined ‘warning signs’. Robust research on warning signs of suicide in autistic people is lacking"

"Irritability in autistic adults is a major crisis"? "what is labeled 'irritability' in many autistic adults may often be a physiological response to cumulative stress or trauma, or a manifestation of intrinsic neurobiological dysregulation..."? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... review, free

Registered: aiming to "explore how autistic adults experience the physical environment within healthcare settings" & "synthesise environmental recommendations to support autistic adults in healthcare settings" www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/vie... systematic review of qualitative studies

Parent-reported "sensory profiles" in autism and/or FXS? free journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... "The autistic groups (autism and FXS+ASD) were similar on hypo-responsivity and sensory seeking, and the FXS groups (FXS-only and FXS+ASD) were similar on hyper-responsivity and sensory seeking"?

Not finding predicted & presumed autistic deficits in prospective memory & executive functioning ("working memory and inhibition performance"), under high vs low cognitive demands onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... "In contrast to our expectations" "in contrast to the extant literature"

Autistic "hypoconnectivity and hyperconnectivity subtypes"? "a new empirical framework for targeted subtyping of the autism spectrum"?--but only 25% of autistics could be subtyped? www.nature.com/articles/s41... & subtypes did not differ in RRBs, or "age, IQ, sex, psychiatric co-occurrence..."?

See autism researchers use "community involvement" to unethically deny autistics fair tests of interventions--e.g. "They didn’t want a control group to not have an opportunity, or to be invited, to also receive the intervention. And that’s very understandable" link.springer.com/article/10.1... free