Carol Greenburg
@autisticenough.bsky.social
Autistic parent of autistic artist, athlete etc. about whom I’ll never stop kvelling. Editor at @thinkingautism.bsky.social. Fan of democratic governance & real science. U should read Steve Silberman’s NeuroTribes. Love gardens & teatime.
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This isn't a time when "it's the thought that counts."
Thoughts & prayers aren't going to cut it.
If you're not antisemitic, we need to see & hear it. The antisemitic racists online & irl need to hear it.
Jewish people can't keep ourselves safe without your help
#StandUpToJewishHate 🟦
Thoughts & prayers aren't going to cut it.
If you're not antisemitic, we need to see & hear it. The antisemitic racists online & irl need to hear it.
Jewish people can't keep ourselves safe without your help
#StandUpToJewishHate 🟦
January 2, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.
Puberty blocker bans in Queensland and NZ risk extreme harm to trans youth, UK expert warns
Sociologist who surveyed effect of 2024 UK ban says denial of gender-affirming care has left trans and non-binary children in ‘abject misery and severe distress’
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.
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We don’t need “good immigrants “ etc stories
We need a place where people get to be people and we don’t become cops and regulators monitoring everybody’s everything for signs or authenticity
We need a place where people get to be people and we don’t become cops and regulators monitoring everybody’s everything for signs or authenticity
January 1, 2026 at 6:06 PM
We don’t need “good immigrants “ etc stories
We need a place where people get to be people and we don’t become cops and regulators monitoring everybody’s everything for signs or authenticity
We need a place where people get to be people and we don’t become cops and regulators monitoring everybody’s everything for signs or authenticity
For your and my New Year’s Eve viewing pleasure, Jack Smith’s full deposition. I’m pretty sure this administration would prefer this not to get attention, so we all know what to do, don’t we?
#ReSkeet, #SpreadTheWord, #QuoteSkeet
#ReSkeet, #SpreadTheWord, #QuoteSkeet
WATCH NOW: The full deposition of former Special Counsel Jack Smith released by the House Judiciary Committee
🚨 FULL JACK SMITH VIDEO DEPOSITION ON TRUMP CRIMES
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December 31, 2025 at 11:09 PM
For your and my New Year’s Eve viewing pleasure, Jack Smith’s full deposition. I’m pretty sure this administration would prefer this not to get attention, so we all know what to do, don’t we?
#ReSkeet, #SpreadTheWord, #QuoteSkeet
#ReSkeet, #SpreadTheWord, #QuoteSkeet
Researchers have a moral obligation to push back when their studies are twisted to promote false health claims www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/r... via @statnews.com
Researchers have a moral obligation to push back when their studies are twisted to promote false health claims
NewsGuard has collected 1,000 provably false statements in its False Claim Fingerprints database. Many involve misrepresented research.
www.statnews.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Researchers have a moral obligation to push back when their studies are twisted to promote false health claims www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/r... via @statnews.com
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Signs of Fascism, Westwood, NJ
Staying visible, staying loud.
#WestwoodNJ #NoFascism #DemocracyInAction #VisibilityBrigade #BecomeTheMedia
Staying visible, staying loud.
#WestwoodNJ #NoFascism #DemocracyInAction #VisibilityBrigade #BecomeTheMedia
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Signs of Fascism, Westwood, NJ
Staying visible, staying loud.
#WestwoodNJ #NoFascism #DemocracyInAction #VisibilityBrigade #BecomeTheMedia
Staying visible, staying loud.
#WestwoodNJ #NoFascism #DemocracyInAction #VisibilityBrigade #BecomeTheMedia
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From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. -- George Orwell.
December 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned. -- George Orwell.
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The holidays are upon us, and that means hanging with folks who might need a nudge or a gentle reminder about holiday kindness and accommodation for autistic kids and adults, on being nice about understanding autistic behaviors versus assuming naughtiness. #autism #neurodiversity 1/
December 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The holidays are upon us, and that means hanging with folks who might need a nudge or a gentle reminder about holiday kindness and accommodation for autistic kids and adults, on being nice about understanding autistic behaviors versus assuming naughtiness. #autism #neurodiversity 1/
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One thing we’ll be seeing in our house as my autistic son adjusts to an atypical holiday schedule is stimming. Lots of stimming. Most of it is functional and self-soothing. Our friends and family get why my son stims and what he needs, they have his back; he will be fine, we’ll be fine. 2/
December 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
One thing we’ll be seeing in our house as my autistic son adjusts to an atypical holiday schedule is stimming. Lots of stimming. Most of it is functional and self-soothing. Our friends and family get why my son stims and what he needs, they have his back; he will be fine, we’ll be fine. 2/
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But if you or your child need stimming functionality backup or want to help understand why stimming doesn’t just matter but can be very necessary, I suggest citing Julia Bascom's @juststimming.bsky.social The Obsessive Joy of Autism:
www.shiftjournal.com/2011/11/30/t... 3/
www.shiftjournal.com/2011/11/30/t... 3/
The Obsessive Joy of Autism - Neurodiversity
I am autistic. I can talk; I talked to myself for a long time before I would talk to anyone else. My sensory system is a painful mess, my grasp on language isn’t always the best, and it takes me quite...
www.shiftjournal.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
But if you or your child need stimming functionality backup or want to help understand why stimming doesn’t just matter but can be very necessary, I suggest citing Julia Bascom's @juststimming.bsky.social The Obsessive Joy of Autism:
www.shiftjournal.com/2011/11/30/t... 3/
www.shiftjournal.com/2011/11/30/t... 3/
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“Well-written autistic characters like (The Pitt’s) Mel King are important and necessary. They also shouldn’t be the only way we [autistics] can ever see ourselves in others.” From @epballou.bsky.social:
chavisory.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/p... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity #ThePitt
chavisory.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/p... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity #ThePitt
Paging Dr. Mohan
HBO’s The Pitt is one of those shows that I think both demands and deserves a viewer’s full attention, not put on as background noise for folding laundry. And yet this past week I put it on in the …
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December 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“Well-written autistic characters like (The Pitt’s) Mel King are important and necessary. They also shouldn’t be the only way we [autistics] can ever see ourselves in others.” From @epballou.bsky.social:
chavisory.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/p... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity #ThePitt
chavisory.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/p... #autism #autistic #neurodiversity #ThePitt
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If you’re looking for a cookbook that meets autistic needs, check out autistic professional chef @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social's “Color, Taste, Texture!”
Broberg-Moffitt even includes a Food Preference Profile and Worksheet to support understanding and choice-making.
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
Broberg-Moffitt even includes a Food Preference Profile and Worksheet to support understanding and choice-making.
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
Autistic Holiday Gift Guide | Spectrum Santas | Elves We'd Shelve
Would you like to express a joyful spirit with intention in these trying times? Consider these autistic-curated gifts to show the autistic people in your life that yes, you see them, and that yes, the...
buttondown.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If you’re looking for a cookbook that meets autistic needs, check out autistic professional chef @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social's “Color, Taste, Texture!”
Broberg-Moffitt even includes a Food Preference Profile and Worksheet to support understanding and choice-making.
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
Broberg-Moffitt even includes a Food Preference Profile and Worksheet to support understanding and choice-making.
buttondown.com/TPGA/archive...
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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Folks,
If there’s a horrific act of mass murder of Jews,
And the first thing you say about it is “the backlash to this is going to be awful for minority groups” (not, say, “it’s bad that lots of Jews were just murdered,”)
Your Jewish acquaintances notice, and we are talking about you.
If there’s a horrific act of mass murder of Jews,
And the first thing you say about it is “the backlash to this is going to be awful for minority groups” (not, say, “it’s bad that lots of Jews were just murdered,”)
Your Jewish acquaintances notice, and we are talking about you.
December 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Folks,
If there’s a horrific act of mass murder of Jews,
And the first thing you say about it is “the backlash to this is going to be awful for minority groups” (not, say, “it’s bad that lots of Jews were just murdered,”)
Your Jewish acquaintances notice, and we are talking about you.
If there’s a horrific act of mass murder of Jews,
And the first thing you say about it is “the backlash to this is going to be awful for minority groups” (not, say, “it’s bad that lots of Jews were just murdered,”)
Your Jewish acquaintances notice, and we are talking about you.
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Yes: And we also notice when you’re unable to bring yourself to denounce an antisemitic incident without first denouncing a Jewish prime minister.
December 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Yes: And we also notice when you’re unable to bring yourself to denounce an antisemitic incident without first denouncing a Jewish prime minister.
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I hate articles like this because it doesn’t address the existing Black PhDs who are ran out of academia permanently because they refuse to assimilate to white supremacist norms of the academy.
www.aamc.org/news/we-need...
www.aamc.org/news/we-need...
We need more Black women in the biomedical sciences
Black women represent less than 7% of doctoral candidates in science and engineering, and less than 9% of the STEM workforce. We can do better.
www.aamc.org
December 17, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I hate articles like this because it doesn’t address the existing Black PhDs who are ran out of academia permanently because they refuse to assimilate to white supremacist norms of the academy.
www.aamc.org/news/we-need...
www.aamc.org/news/we-need...
I have donated to help Mr. El Ahmed and his family. Please join me in donating if you can or share this link to the GoFundMe set up for him. Mr. El Ahmed acted on what both Jewish and Muslim values teach. www.gofundme.com/f/zbcjn-supp...
Thank you for donating to Support the Hero Who Disarmed a Bondi Attacker
<div>After witnessing the extraordinary actions of the hero who helped disarm one of the attackers during the Bondi tragedy, an act that prevented the loss of countless more lives, we felt compelled t...
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December 16, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I have donated to help Mr. El Ahmed and his family. Please join me in donating if you can or share this link to the GoFundMe set up for him. Mr. El Ahmed acted on what both Jewish and Muslim values teach. www.gofundme.com/f/zbcjn-supp...
TY as always to @drstevenkapp.bsky.social for sharing this new paper and accompanying video by @themiskaraminis.bsky.social. As usual our senior editor at @thinkingautism.com, Shannon Des Roches Rosa has excellent instincts for who does and doesn’t have our community’s interests at heart.
New paper (w/ accompanying video) below by @themiskaraminis.bsky.social shows trust in right-wing newspapers relates to harsher attitudes toward autistic ppl despite what ppl admit.
Ties in w/ @thinkingautism.com’s piece connecting grievance parents to MAGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/11/grie...
Ties in w/ @thinkingautism.com’s piece connecting grievance parents to MAGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/11/grie...
December 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
TY as always to @drstevenkapp.bsky.social for sharing this new paper and accompanying video by @themiskaraminis.bsky.social. As usual our senior editor at @thinkingautism.com, Shannon Des Roches Rosa has excellent instincts for who does and doesn’t have our community’s interests at heart.
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A reminder: Please don't force autistic kids (or adults) to sit still or use “whole body listening” (what Carol Greenburg @autisticenough.bsky.social calls “Whole Body Oppression”) or shame them for stimming when they need to move to listen or self-regulate.
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/01/auti...
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/01/auti...
Autism Checklist of DOOM
Our autism checklist of doom is meant to help people the kinds of things that may upset an autistic person, ones that aren't always obvious.
thinkingautismguide.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A reminder: Please don't force autistic kids (or adults) to sit still or use “whole body listening” (what Carol Greenburg @autisticenough.bsky.social calls “Whole Body Oppression”) or shame them for stimming when they need to move to listen or self-regulate.
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/01/auti...
thinkingautismguide.com/2022/01/auti...
As we kindle lights on this first night of Hannukah, the worldwide Jewish community mourns the losses of at least 16 people in an antisemitic mass shooting on #BondiBeach in Sydney, Australia. May their memories always be for a blessing.
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
As we kindle lights on this first night of Hannukah, the worldwide Jewish community mourns the losses of at least 16 people in an antisemitic mass shooting on #BondiBeach in Sydney, Australia. May their memories always be for a blessing.
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This is bracing and thorough, and it brings the receipts. I also appreciate the acknowledgement that “America has never lived up to the egalitarian promise is has often claimed as reality.”
We aren’t looking to regain some promised land. We’re looking to try again, as a nation, to be better.
We aren’t looking to regain some promised land. We’re looking to try again, as a nation, to be better.
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
New piece:
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist vision.
New piece:
Trumpism Is at War with the Idea of a Citizenry of Equals
The regime’s latest racist fury is tied to the Right’s much broader attempt to redefine citizenship and national identity in service of an exclusionary white nationalist
steady.page
December 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This is bracing and thorough, and it brings the receipts. I also appreciate the acknowledgement that “America has never lived up to the egalitarian promise is has often claimed as reality.”
We aren’t looking to regain some promised land. We’re looking to try again, as a nation, to be better.
We aren’t looking to regain some promised land. We’re looking to try again, as a nation, to be better.
These books by Dr. @ejwillingham.bsky.social make great holiday gifts. Buy them for friends, family, and for your local little free libraries.
My books:
College bio bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Genitalia/FuckThePatriarchy bookshop.org/p/books/phal...
What truly works for a better-feeling brain + Musk-fisk bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Autistic adolescent bookshop.org/p/books/if-y...
Parenting (co-auth) bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
College bio bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Genitalia/FuckThePatriarchy bookshop.org/p/books/phal...
What truly works for a better-feeling brain + Musk-fisk bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Autistic adolescent bookshop.org/p/books/if-y...
Parenting (co-auth) bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
December 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
These books by Dr. @ejwillingham.bsky.social make great holiday gifts. Buy them for friends, family, and for your local little free libraries.
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This is why it’s important to point out when someone this influential is also throwing slurs at a sitting Congresswoman like she did with Rep Jasmine Crockett.
December 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is why it’s important to point out when someone this influential is also throwing slurs at a sitting Congresswoman like she did with Rep Jasmine Crockett.
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But we’re going to “not that big a deal” ourselves to death.
December 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
But we’re going to “not that big a deal” ourselves to death.
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For reference: newsone.com/6480219/laur...
Laura Loomer Calls Jasmine Crockett A 'Ghetto Black B---h'
In a continuing trend amongst the MAGA faithful, Laura Loomer got upset that Jasmine Crockett spoke truthfully about Charlie Kirk and his harmful rhetoric.
newsone.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
For reference: newsone.com/6480219/laur...