Chris Dabbs, Ph.D.
@dabbspsych.bsky.social
Psychologist | professor | author | researching identity, religion, and autism | #actuallyautistic | he/him | Hoosier transplant 🇺🇸 → 🇨🇦 | opinions my own
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Understanding and Affirming Autistic Clients
This book is an accessible primer focused on the provision of neuro-affirming clinical care for autistic clients, written from the perspective of autistic clini…
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'Understanding and affirming autistic clients: a primer for mental health professionals' is open for preorder!
Our entire book--from the cover art to the text--was created by autistic and neurodivergent people to help serve autistic clients.
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#actuallyautistic
Our entire book--from the cover art to the text--was created by autistic and neurodivergent people to help serve autistic clients.
www.bloomsbury.com/us/understan...
#actuallyautistic
We oppose the implementation of generative AI into mental health care.
We need to have a discussion about the profit-driven forces that have, instead of fixing the cracks in our mental health systems, have convinced clinicians that generative AI is the path forward.
#psychscisky
#academicsky
We need to have a discussion about the profit-driven forces that have, instead of fixing the cracks in our mental health systems, have convinced clinicians that generative AI is the path forward.
#psychscisky
#academicsky
Open Letter: Against the Use of Generative AI in Mental Health Care
We cannot sit idly by while market forces drive a deceitful inevitability narrative surrounding AI use in mental health care.
Tools that make people kill themselves are not good for us actually.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
We cannot sit idly by while market forces drive a deceitful inevitability narrative surrounding AI use in mental health care.
Tools that make people kill themselves are not good for us actually.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Open Letter: Against the Use of Generative AI in Mental Health Care
docs.google.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:35 PM
We oppose the implementation of generative AI into mental health care.
We need to have a discussion about the profit-driven forces that have, instead of fixing the cracks in our mental health systems, have convinced clinicians that generative AI is the path forward.
#psychscisky
#academicsky
We need to have a discussion about the profit-driven forces that have, instead of fixing the cracks in our mental health systems, have convinced clinicians that generative AI is the path forward.
#psychscisky
#academicsky
Open Letter: Against the Use of Generative AI in Mental Health Care
We cannot sit idly by while market forces drive a deceitful inevitability narrative surrounding AI use in mental health care.
Tools that make people kill themselves are not good for us actually.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
We cannot sit idly by while market forces drive a deceitful inevitability narrative surrounding AI use in mental health care.
Tools that make people kill themselves are not good for us actually.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Open Letter: Against the Use of Generative AI in Mental Health Care
docs.google.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Open Letter: Against the Use of Generative AI in Mental Health Care
We cannot sit idly by while market forces drive a deceitful inevitability narrative surrounding AI use in mental health care.
Tools that make people kill themselves are not good for us actually.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
We cannot sit idly by while market forces drive a deceitful inevitability narrative surrounding AI use in mental health care.
Tools that make people kill themselves are not good for us actually.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
hey literally everyone in government in both the US and Canada, stop fucking with my trans homies
January 15, 2026 at 5:50 PM
hey literally everyone in government in both the US and Canada, stop fucking with my trans homies
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Led by Grant Bruno, and following from our first Editorial on Global Indigenous Perspectives on autism research, our second Editorial in @journalautism.bsky.social explores integrating Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing to autism research. Free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Decolonizing autism research: Integrating Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing - Grant Bruno, Anne Lindblom, Jessica Tupou, Fran Kewene, TC Waisman, Iliana Magiati, 2025
journals.sagepub.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Led by Grant Bruno, and following from our first Editorial on Global Indigenous Perspectives on autism research, our second Editorial in @journalautism.bsky.social explores integrating Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing to autism research. Free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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i need authors and agents to be much louder with their publishers how much they hate gen ai and make it embarrassing/financially harmful for publishers to be associated with it at every level (incl marketing, publicity, and sales)
January 14, 2026 at 6:14 PM
i need authors and agents to be much louder with their publishers how much they hate gen ai and make it embarrassing/financially harmful for publishers to be associated with it at every level (incl marketing, publicity, and sales)
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Wow, color me shocked, 5000 angry autistic people because autistic Barbie doesn’t do or have the exact same things they do or have.
It’s almost like there is no one specific way to be autistic and autism doesn’t have a look.
It’s almost like there is no one specific way to be autistic and autism doesn’t have a look.
January 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Wow, color me shocked, 5000 angry autistic people because autistic Barbie doesn’t do or have the exact same things they do or have.
It’s almost like there is no one specific way to be autistic and autism doesn’t have a look.
It’s almost like there is no one specific way to be autistic and autism doesn’t have a look.
If you want to know why it's so hard to find a testing psychologist who takes insurance, my testing fee is $250/hour and Anthem pays me the equivalent of $32/hour after I subtract material costs.
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January 10, 2026 at 9:54 PM
If you want to know why it's so hard to find a testing psychologist who takes insurance, my testing fee is $250/hour and Anthem pays me the equivalent of $32/hour after I subtract material costs.
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Catching up on email. I received an article review request on Dec. 21, a reminder for that request on CHRISTMAS DAY, and notice of request withdrawal due to lack of response on Dec. 29.
Academic folks, please stop doing this. Breaks exist for a reason. Spend time with family. Touch grass (or snow).
Academic folks, please stop doing this. Breaks exist for a reason. Spend time with family. Touch grass (or snow).
January 2, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Catching up on email. I received an article review request on Dec. 21, a reminder for that request on CHRISTMAS DAY, and notice of request withdrawal due to lack of response on Dec. 29.
Academic folks, please stop doing this. Breaks exist for a reason. Spend time with family. Touch grass (or snow).
Academic folks, please stop doing this. Breaks exist for a reason. Spend time with family. Touch grass (or snow).
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When universities tout their partnerships with OpenAI, parents, faculty and everyone really should be asking how they intend to account for the increasing evidence that their technology is hurting people, especially young and vulnerable people. How many instances of harm will be enough?
Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
When universities tout their partnerships with OpenAI, parents, faculty and everyone really should be asking how they intend to account for the increasing evidence that their technology is hurting people, especially young and vulnerable people. How many instances of harm will be enough?
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a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product
December 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product
I need more people to start saying that these mental health/LLM findings are "horrifying," "repulsive," or "eschatological" and fewer people saying they're "interesting," or "notable."
December 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I need more people to start saying that these mental health/LLM findings are "horrifying," "repulsive," or "eschatological" and fewer people saying they're "interesting," or "notable."
A paper acceptance and a paper rejection in the same day is the duality of academia.
December 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A paper acceptance and a paper rejection in the same day is the duality of academia.
This holiday season, buy your favorite neurodiversity-affirming clinician a copy of Understanding and Affirming Autistic Clients: A Primer for Mental Health Professionals!
Find it wherever books are sold:
a.co/d/0oOSKCU
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/understand...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/understan...
Find it wherever books are sold:
a.co/d/0oOSKCU
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/understand...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/understan...
December 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This holiday season, buy your favorite neurodiversity-affirming clinician a copy of Understanding and Affirming Autistic Clients: A Primer for Mental Health Professionals!
Find it wherever books are sold:
a.co/d/0oOSKCU
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/understand...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/understan...
Find it wherever books are sold:
a.co/d/0oOSKCU
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/understand...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/understan...
What is happening at University of Oklahoma is disgraceful, but not surprising for anyone who's spent time in Oklahoma. A seemingly coordinated anti-trans attack against an award-winning graduate instructor just doing their job (and very well). It's very blatant and public trans erasure.
Student Cries Discrimination for Failing Grade on Essay Calling Transness "Demonic"
https://www.them.us/story/university-oklahoma-mel-curth-turning-point-samantha-fulnecky
https://www.them.us/story/university-oklahoma-mel-curth-turning-point-samantha-fulnecky
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
What is happening at University of Oklahoma is disgraceful, but not surprising for anyone who's spent time in Oklahoma. A seemingly coordinated anti-trans attack against an award-winning graduate instructor just doing their job (and very well). It's very blatant and public trans erasure.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
-Protomen
-Gogol Bordello
-BigX Tha Plug
-Coheed & Cambria
-Ghost
-Protomen
-Gogol Bordello
-BigX Tha Plug
-Coheed & Cambria
-Ghost
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
-Bon Jovi and the Goo Goo Dolls
-Ozzy Osbourne
-Rush
-Van Halen
-The Who
-Bon Jovi and the Goo Goo Dolls
-Ozzy Osbourne
-Rush
-Van Halen
-The Who
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen:
Bon Jovi
Billy Joel & Elton John
Dire Straits
Anthrax
Def Leppard
Bon Jovi
Billy Joel & Elton John
Dire Straits
Anthrax
Def Leppard
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
-Protomen
-Gogol Bordello
-BigX Tha Plug
-Coheed & Cambria
-Ghost
-Protomen
-Gogol Bordello
-BigX Tha Plug
-Coheed & Cambria
-Ghost
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
It's application season! Here's one piece of advice for references:
For the love of all the gods, please only comment on your lived interactions with the applicant. Don't reiterate what they wrote about themselves if you weren't directly involved. If you have to do that, don't submit a letter 🙃
For the love of all the gods, please only comment on your lived interactions with the applicant. Don't reiterate what they wrote about themselves if you weren't directly involved. If you have to do that, don't submit a letter 🙃
a cartoon of spongebob making a funny face
Alt: An animated .gif of SpongeBob Squarepants on his knees, eyes closed, with hands clasped in front of him ostensibly begging.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
It's application season! Here's one piece of advice for references:
For the love of all the gods, please only comment on your lived interactions with the applicant. Don't reiterate what they wrote about themselves if you weren't directly involved. If you have to do that, don't submit a letter 🙃
For the love of all the gods, please only comment on your lived interactions with the applicant. Don't reiterate what they wrote about themselves if you weren't directly involved. If you have to do that, don't submit a letter 🙃
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On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I'd like our allies to remember that silence is complicit to the violence against Trans people if witnessing mockery, abuse & threatening behavior
I know it's hard to speak up
Especially when bigots are scary
But there is power in every pushback
I believe in you!
I know it's hard to speak up
Especially when bigots are scary
But there is power in every pushback
I believe in you!
Additional scripts for cis het white men who want to be better allies:
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
“What a weird thing to say”
“Do you hear yourself right now?”
“You shouldn’t say shit like that to people”
“I won’t let you talk to them that way”
“That’s a disgusting opinion to have”
“Shut the fuck up, dude”
Cis men truly need to understand the power of saying “that’s fucked up bro why would you say that” to another cis man
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I'd like our allies to remember that silence is complicit to the violence against Trans people if witnessing mockery, abuse & threatening behavior
I know it's hard to speak up
Especially when bigots are scary
But there is power in every pushback
I believe in you!
I know it's hard to speak up
Especially when bigots are scary
But there is power in every pushback
I believe in you!
Would you take a mental health diagnosis class about superheroes, supervillains, and comic book characters?
🦸♂️ ⚔️ 🦹♂️
Well, I made one and write about it in my new open-access commentary 🙂
digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jti/vol1/iss...
#academicsky #edusky
🦸♂️ ⚔️ 🦹♂️
Well, I made one and write about it in my new open-access commentary 🙂
digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jti/vol1/iss...
#academicsky #edusky
Pow, Bam, Snikt: Using Superheroes to Teach Mental Health
Undergraduate psychopathology (abnormal psychology) courses traditionally emphasize case vignettes of individuals with psychiatric disorders to illustrate etiology, nosology, and treatment. While peda...
digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Would you take a mental health diagnosis class about superheroes, supervillains, and comic book characters?
🦸♂️ ⚔️ 🦹♂️
Well, I made one and write about it in my new open-access commentary 🙂
digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jti/vol1/iss...
#academicsky #edusky
🦸♂️ ⚔️ 🦹♂️
Well, I made one and write about it in my new open-access commentary 🙂
digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jti/vol1/iss...
#academicsky #edusky
LORs are one of my favorite parts of my job. You mean I get to write a letter full of great things about an awesome person who trusted me to write said things? For all of the thankless service tasks in our profession, LORs are not one of them.
From my discussions with other faculty, the use of generative AI I hear about the most is writing reference letters.
What's the point of having reference letters anymore if everyone is just having them written by machine?
What's the point of having reference letters anymore if everyone is just having them written by machine?
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
LORs are one of my favorite parts of my job. You mean I get to write a letter full of great things about an awesome person who trusted me to write said things? For all of the thankless service tasks in our profession, LORs are not one of them.
Academics are leaving the U.S. for jobs in other countries. I was one of them! In this short opinion piece, I write about my transition from 🇺🇸 to 🇨🇦, and I offer tangible advice for those trying to do the same.
universityaffairs.ca/opinion/trad...
universityaffairs.ca/opinion/trad...
Trading tenure for Timbits - University Affairs
Everything you didn’t know about relocating to Canada.
universityaffairs.ca
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Academics are leaving the U.S. for jobs in other countries. I was one of them! In this short opinion piece, I write about my transition from 🇺🇸 to 🇨🇦, and I offer tangible advice for those trying to do the same.
universityaffairs.ca/opinion/trad...
universityaffairs.ca/opinion/trad...
Psychologists stop using AI to write clinical reports challenge (impossible)
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Psychologists stop using AI to write clinical reports challenge (impossible)
These critics have never been on food stamps. They talk like SNAP is giving $6k a month or something.
When I was single on SNAP in 2019-2020, I got $130/month. When my family was on SNAP in the late 2000s/early 2010s, we got like $600/month — there were EIGHT of us.
When I was single on SNAP in 2019-2020, I got $130/month. When my family was on SNAP in the late 2000s/early 2010s, we got like $600/month — there were EIGHT of us.
This whole thread.
“Oh no, someone might eat food!”
Good. That’s good.
“They might buy something they like.”
Cool.
“They might get a treat!”
Also cool.
“Oh no, someone might eat food!”
Good. That’s good.
“They might buy something they like.”
Cool.
“They might get a treat!”
Also cool.
October 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
These critics have never been on food stamps. They talk like SNAP is giving $6k a month or something.
When I was single on SNAP in 2019-2020, I got $130/month. When my family was on SNAP in the late 2000s/early 2010s, we got like $600/month — there were EIGHT of us.
When I was single on SNAP in 2019-2020, I got $130/month. When my family was on SNAP in the late 2000s/early 2010s, we got like $600/month — there were EIGHT of us.
Uh oh. The lawyers are pissed 😬
“The government has invoked the notwithstanding clause before the Court has had an opportunity to examine the law and determine whether it constitutes a reasonable limit.”
CBA Alberta Statement on the Use of the Notwithstanding Clause
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CBA Alberta Statement on the Use of the Notwithstanding Clause
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CBA Alberta Statement on the Use of the Notwithstanding Clause | CBA Alberta
The Alberta government has invoked the notwithstanding clause to order teachers back to work. The " Back to School Act " imposes a collective agreement on teachers and prohibits them from striking unt...
cba-alberta.org
October 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Uh oh. The lawyers are pissed 😬
Today I launched our new clinical text that focuses on affirming autistic clients. To introduce the book, I took time to share my own autistic support needs, how they intersected with writing a book, and I asked why we're still treating disabled people like shit:
www.chrisdabbs.com/post/underst...
www.chrisdabbs.com/post/underst...
Understanding and Affirming Autistic Clients: Book Launch
On October 29th, 2025, we held a launch event for Understanding and Affirming Autistic Clients at the University of Lethbridge. Below is a transcript of the speech I gave to introduce the book alongsi...
www.chrisdabbs.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Today I launched our new clinical text that focuses on affirming autistic clients. To introduce the book, I took time to share my own autistic support needs, how they intersected with writing a book, and I asked why we're still treating disabled people like shit:
www.chrisdabbs.com/post/underst...
www.chrisdabbs.com/post/underst...