This is beautiful Jon, thank you!

@kosjenka.bsky.social thank you for coming ♥️

Thanks so much Fergus! Do you know if there's a way to add ALT text after posting?

Thank you so much for sharing our work😃

Thank you Isabelle!

This paper is the result of over two years of deeply collaborative work with a dream team of academic and youth researchers. We are grateful to all the young people and families who participated in the study and made this work possible.

The concept of emotional burden (the product between the frequency of upsetting experiences and their intensity) could have significant implications for school-based interventions as it highlights the need for schools to reduce these negative school experiences+support young people to manage them.

We found that negative school experiences generate twice the emotional burden in autistic and ADHD adolescents compared to their neurotypical peers. These experiences are significantly associated with depression and anxiety.

Proud to be part of this team🎉

So much around understanding, empathy and kindness. Young people are showing us the way to bring positive changes and create neurodiversity-affirming schools where they can be their true selves and have their best lives.

I am sorry to hear this Cierzo. In RE-STAR, we've been working with Autistic and ADHD young people for over 3 years and they are sharing so much about the importance of having trusted school staff who listen, get them, attune to their needs and accommodate for differences.

RE-STAR is a £3.3 million UKRI-funded research programme at King's College London,
led by Professor Edmund Sonuga-Barke. The programme aims to cut the risk of adolescent depression by reducing the emotional burden that many autistic and ADHD young people experience in mainstream secondary schools.