Anne V. Kirby
@avkirbyphd.bsky.social
#Occupationaltherapy faculty @tcd-ot.bsky.social | #research #autism #suicideprevention #healthcare. she/her
You can find my work here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Faa1OkMAAAAJ&hl=en
You can find my work here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Faa1OkMAAAAJ&hl=en
New (free!) paper out describing our AASPIRE Suicide Prevention Project team's collaborative work to develop a new program focused on suicide prevention for the autistic community.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
New (free!) paper out describing our AASPIRE Suicide Prevention Project team's collaborative work to develop a new program focused on suicide prevention for the autistic community.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
Autism researchers! If you (like me) are scrambling to get INSAR submissions in. Please also consider signing up BY TOMORROW as a reviewer. Having more reviewers will make lighter work for everyone, and you'll get to have a say in what is presented at the conference! insar.confex.com/insar/2026/c...
Abstract Review
Abstract Review
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October 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Autism researchers! If you (like me) are scrambling to get INSAR submissions in. Please also consider signing up BY TOMORROW as a reviewer. Having more reviewers will make lighter work for everyone, and you'll get to have a say in what is presented at the conference! insar.confex.com/insar/2026/c...
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Things today's White House autism announcement did not do:
-Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families
-Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear
-Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience
-Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families
-Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear
-Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience
September 23, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Things today's White House autism announcement did not do:
-Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families
-Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear
-Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience
-Discuss strategies to increase supports and services for autistic people/families
-Highlight why autistic people and families deserve respect, not pity or fear
-Endorse one speck of autism research that is not dangerous pseudoscience
In our focus groups with trans community members, gyms were also highlighted as places they didn't feel safe.
Restricted access to health-promoting activities is one of the many ways that discrimination impacts health.
Restricted access to health-promoting activities is one of the many ways that discrimination impacts health.
"I read a tweet once from someone asking my trans friends what they would do if the world was cis free for 24 hours & trans folks were safe to do anything without being subjected to transphobia.
"Most of them said 'go swimming.'
"Think about that."
Tweet by Izzy Rizinti.
#TransRights
"Most of them said 'go swimming.'
"Think about that."
Tweet by Izzy Rizinti.
#TransRights
September 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
In our focus groups with trans community members, gyms were also highlighted as places they didn't feel safe.
Restricted access to health-promoting activities is one of the many ways that discrimination impacts health.
Restricted access to health-promoting activities is one of the many ways that discrimination impacts health.
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hello, i am an Autistic psychiatric nurse practitioner who is specialty trained in the diagnosis of autism
you can pay me to do that professionally in NH, MA, CT, & NY
...AND if you're just looking for permission to believe what you already know to be true - please believe it
it's you who knows &
you can pay me to do that professionally in NH, MA, CT, & NY
...AND if you're just looking for permission to believe what you already know to be true - please believe it
it's you who knows &
The condition that prompts the diagnosis exists prior to the diagnosis. This is true of every single diagnosis; medical and psychiatric. I don't know what else to tell you.
September 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
hello, i am an Autistic psychiatric nurse practitioner who is specialty trained in the diagnosis of autism
you can pay me to do that professionally in NH, MA, CT, & NY
...AND if you're just looking for permission to believe what you already know to be true - please believe it
it's you who knows &
you can pay me to do that professionally in NH, MA, CT, & NY
...AND if you're just looking for permission to believe what you already know to be true - please believe it
it's you who knows &
Our new article is out! We also have a free bullet-point summary version available online. aaspire.org/2025/09/09/n...
September 10, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Our new article is out! We also have a free bullet-point summary version available online. aaspire.org/2025/09/09/n...
What started as a project to examine disparities in risk of suicidal ideation and attempts turned into a collaborative effort to explore a much wider range of diagnostic disparities experienced by trans and gender diverse individuals in Utah. Available now:
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Unveiling health disparities: Diagnostic prevalences in a transgender cohort versus matched controls
Importance Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals are at risk for discrimination and inequities across legal, social, and medical contexts. Population-level resources have rarely been used f...
dx.plos.org
August 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM
What started as a project to examine disparities in risk of suicidal ideation and attempts turned into a collaborative effort to explore a much wider range of diagnostic disparities experienced by trans and gender diverse individuals in Utah. Available now:
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Charities usually like to talk to the public about their good works. In the wake of the Trump aid cuts, there's a new approach: "anticipatory silence." It's controversial.
To speak or not to speak: Why many aid groups are silent about the Trump cuts
Charities usually like to talk to the public about their good works. In the wake of the Trump aid cuts, there's a new approach: "anticipatory silence." It's controversial.
n.pr
August 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Charities usually like to talk to the public about their good works. In the wake of the Trump aid cuts, there's a new approach: "anticipatory silence." It's controversial.
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Autism in Adulthood is recruiting 6 new Deputy Editors/Editors to help us respond to the huge rise in submissions. More info at drive.google.com/file/d/1cdgs.... If interested, please send a c.v. and a short statement about your interest to autisminadulthood@pdx.edu. Or talk to me at #INSAR2025.
AiA Info for Potentional Board and Editors (2025).pdf
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May 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Autism in Adulthood is recruiting 6 new Deputy Editors/Editors to help us respond to the huge rise in submissions. More info at drive.google.com/file/d/1cdgs.... If interested, please send a c.v. and a short statement about your interest to autisminadulthood@pdx.edu. Or talk to me at #INSAR2025.
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@autisminadulthood.bsky.social annual Editorial Board dinner at #INSAR2025 (with a few guests). What a phenomenal team! Hard to believe that 7 years ago we showed up to INSAR with our first little Preview Issue. I so appreciate all the people who have made our journal into what it is today.
May 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM
@autisminadulthood.bsky.social annual Editorial Board dinner at #INSAR2025 (with a few guests). What a phenomenal team! Hard to believe that 7 years ago we showed up to INSAR with our first little Preview Issue. I so appreciate all the people who have made our journal into what it is today.
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the more democrats concede to the republican war on trans people, the more that signals to the public that trans people are a problem and should be stigmatized.
March 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
the more democrats concede to the republican war on trans people, the more that signals to the public that trans people are a problem and should be stigmatized.
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"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."
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Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."
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Seems like a good time to re-share our research about the trans community and suicide risk. Not surprisingly, the community told us that anti-trans policies contribute strongly to their suicidality.
#transrights
#suicideprevention
#transrights
#suicideprevention
We asked trans people directly why they're at elevated risk for suicide & what is needed for suicide prevention
Published in an awesome trans-led journal: BATS
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/3/1-...
#transrights #suicideprevention #research
@saltysicky.bsky.social @annadocherty.bsky.social
Published in an awesome trans-led journal: BATS
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/3/1-...
#transrights #suicideprevention #research
@saltysicky.bsky.social @annadocherty.bsky.social
"It's Not the 'Being Trans,' It's Everything Around That": Trans Community Perspectives for Suicide Prevention
| Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies
Trans people are at significantly elevated risk of suicide death, suicide attempts, and suicidal ideation than their cisgender peers. Suicide prevention efforts are needed that address the most import...
bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org
January 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Seems like a good time to re-share our research about the trans community and suicide risk. Not surprisingly, the community told us that anti-trans policies contribute strongly to their suicidality.
#transrights
#suicideprevention
#transrights
#suicideprevention
I've been fostering a cat who was in an LA shelter when they had to clear out to make space for displaced pets.
Salem 😻
Salem 😻
January 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I've been fostering a cat who was in an LA shelter when they had to clear out to make space for displaced pets.
Salem 😻
Salem 😻
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I recently contributed to the conversation on #AIInfluencers. Are these digital personas reshaping happiness in the modern world?
Spoiler: I don't think we know yet.
www.thenationalnews.com/future/techn...
#AI #AIEthics #SocialMediaEthics #DigitalLife
Spoiler: I don't think we know yet.
www.thenationalnews.com/future/techn...
#AI #AIEthics #SocialMediaEthics #DigitalLife
Are AI influencers the latest feature of modern life to make us unhappy? | The National
Rather than pay real-life influencers to promote their products, some companies are turning to artificially generated people
www.thenationalnews.com
December 3, 2024 at 4:42 PM
I recently contributed to the conversation on #AIInfluencers. Are these digital personas reshaping happiness in the modern world?
Spoiler: I don't think we know yet.
www.thenationalnews.com/future/techn...
#AI #AIEthics #SocialMediaEthics #DigitalLife
Spoiler: I don't think we know yet.
www.thenationalnews.com/future/techn...
#AI #AIEthics #SocialMediaEthics #DigitalLife
To get some action going on my new Blue Sky account, I'll share a few of my publications in this thread 🧵
All open access (free to read)
#autism #transrights #suicideprevention @universityofutah.bsky.social
All open access (free to read)
#autism #transrights #suicideprevention @universityofutah.bsky.social
November 21, 2024 at 10:46 AM
To get some action going on my new Blue Sky account, I'll share a few of my publications in this thread 🧵
All open access (free to read)
#autism #transrights #suicideprevention @universityofutah.bsky.social
All open access (free to read)
#autism #transrights #suicideprevention @universityofutah.bsky.social