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THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM

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This collection of personal experiences attending conferences, authored by Xavier Penn, explores what’s still going wrong in autism research.

Content note: Discussion of involuntary psychiatric holds and self-injury

Introduction: Oral Sessions

I phrase my questions achingly, cautiously, edit after edit, before it’s time to (shakingly) press play...


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As harmful autism disinformation campaigns go, grievance parents‘ attempt to break off  “profound autism” as a separate diagnosis via smearing neurodiversity advocates is notable—mostly for its spitefulness. Whi...


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An autistic advocate, podcaster, and author weighs in on the limits of old-school research and services

Recently, developmental psychologist Uta Frith shared with Tes Magazine her opinion that the concept of the autism spectr...


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There is some confusion about what neurodiversity-affirming assessment actually looks like in the real world. Some people worry that affirming care means rubber-stamping whatever someone already thinks, while others worry that differential diagnosis—a systematic process used to identify the most accurate condition(s) (or neurotype) from a set of possible competing conditions ...


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