Advocating the Neurodiversity Paradigm
@stewiebar.bsky.social
AuDHD therapist and academic, campaigning for social justice for the neurodivergent minority. Dad to 4 of the most awesome ND adult children and besotted grandad to 2 gorgeous ND girls.
#neurodivergence #socialjustice #neurodiversityparadigm
#neurodivergence #socialjustice #neurodiversityparadigm
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A Disorder 4 Everyone! | Challenging the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnosis
A Disorder 4 Everyone! challenges the labelling culture of psychiatric diagnosis and the pathologising of emotional distress via online events, discussion, CPD training and campaigning. Because label...
www.adisorder4everyone.com
I lived for 6 decades believing I was existentially broken. But diagnostic criteria hide far more about ND life-worlds than they reveal. It's time to step away from the pathologising, normalising, power paradigm of the medicalised model of neurodivergence.
www.adisorder4everyone.com
www.adisorder4everyone.com
Because our ND life-world is often evaluated on observable phenomenon, there can confusion between ADHD and Austism. Stimming is common in both, but often confused for Austism. Bodily movement either stimulates or reduces sensory phenomena in an attempt to regulate feelings.
#Ptmf #neurodivergence
#Ptmf #neurodivergence
January 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Because our ND life-world is often evaluated on observable phenomenon, there can confusion between ADHD and Austism. Stimming is common in both, but often confused for Austism. Bodily movement either stimulates or reduces sensory phenomena in an attempt to regulate feelings.
#Ptmf #neurodivergence
#Ptmf #neurodivergence
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🚨 Unpacking a problematic post about autism, misogyny, and transphobia. Warning: This is going to be a deep dive into harmful rhetoric and misinformation. Buckle up! 🧵
December 9, 2024 at 4:32 AM
🚨 Unpacking a problematic post about autism, misogyny, and transphobia. Warning: This is going to be a deep dive into harmful rhetoric and misinformation. Buckle up! 🧵
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"Our autistic children are doing their best to survive in schools. We need to move beyond the old mantras & myths around reasons-for-behaviour, and into a present & future where we understand deeply and work collaboratively." @annmemmott.bsky.social, at TPGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2019/05/beha...
thinkingautismguide.com/2019/05/beha...
December 9, 2024 at 3:11 AM
"Our autistic children are doing their best to survive in schools. We need to move beyond the old mantras & myths around reasons-for-behaviour, and into a present & future where we understand deeply and work collaboratively." @annmemmott.bsky.social, at TPGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2019/05/beha...
thinkingautismguide.com/2019/05/beha...
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THIS is my Sentiment
December 9, 2024 at 2:05 PM
THIS is my Sentiment
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“Autistic people should be allowed to stim as needed. Accommodations can be made to environments, such as sitting on an exercise ball for wiggly Autistic people, or stim toys kept in the classroom.” From Autism Wiki:
autism-advocacy.fandom.com/wiki/Stimming #neurodiversity #autism
autism-advocacy.fandom.com/wiki/Stimming #neurodiversity #autism
Stimming
Stimming is a repetitive body movement that self-stimulates one or more senses in a regulated manner. Stimming is known in psychiatry as a "stereotypy", a continuous movement. Stimming is one of the s...
autism-advocacy.fandom.com
November 29, 2024 at 1:59 PM
“Autistic people should be allowed to stim as needed. Accommodations can be made to environments, such as sitting on an exercise ball for wiggly Autistic people, or stim toys kept in the classroom.” From Autism Wiki:
autism-advocacy.fandom.com/wiki/Stimming #neurodiversity #autism
autism-advocacy.fandom.com/wiki/Stimming #neurodiversity #autism
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ABA therapy advocates often claim that ABA is "evidence-based." Thing is, the term "evidence-based" is a bit arbitrary. And “we shouldn’t have a separate set of lower standards that we only apply to autism research.” Researcher @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social:
thinkingautismguide.com/2020/05/conf...
thinkingautismguide.com/2020/05/conf...
December 7, 2024 at 2:35 AM
ABA therapy advocates often claim that ABA is "evidence-based." Thing is, the term "evidence-based" is a bit arbitrary. And “we shouldn’t have a separate set of lower standards that we only apply to autism research.” Researcher @kbottemabeutel.bsky.social:
thinkingautismguide.com/2020/05/conf...
thinkingautismguide.com/2020/05/conf...
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I will be doing a 15 minute talk at the ADHD Experience comedy night in Brighton next Sunday.
My slot has been billed as a talk, not a comedy, so I want to make people laugh, but totally deadpan.
Think Jack Dee.
Think Michael Cain in Muppets Christmas Carol.
Do you think I can pull this off?
My slot has been billed as a talk, not a comedy, so I want to make people laugh, but totally deadpan.
Think Jack Dee.
Think Michael Cain in Muppets Christmas Carol.
Do you think I can pull this off?
December 7, 2024 at 9:26 AM
I will be doing a 15 minute talk at the ADHD Experience comedy night in Brighton next Sunday.
My slot has been billed as a talk, not a comedy, so I want to make people laugh, but totally deadpan.
Think Jack Dee.
Think Michael Cain in Muppets Christmas Carol.
Do you think I can pull this off?
My slot has been billed as a talk, not a comedy, so I want to make people laugh, but totally deadpan.
Think Jack Dee.
Think Michael Cain in Muppets Christmas Carol.
Do you think I can pull this off?
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There should be a word for wealthy white cishet men who suddenly embrace being autistic solely to try to avoid accountability for their shitty behavior.
December 7, 2024 at 11:18 AM
There should be a word for wealthy white cishet men who suddenly embrace being autistic solely to try to avoid accountability for their shitty behavior.
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Saturday re-share of my Autistic Realms starter pack with 150 wonderful neurodiversity-affirming people and
organisations to follow. Everyone in this pack is doing super valuable work with our families and communities and working towards positive change. Please share and follow.
go.bsky.app/9N5UEUC
organisations to follow. Everyone in this pack is doing super valuable work with our families and communities and working towards positive change. Please share and follow.
go.bsky.app/9N5UEUC
December 7, 2024 at 10:35 AM
Saturday re-share of my Autistic Realms starter pack with 150 wonderful neurodiversity-affirming people and
organisations to follow. Everyone in this pack is doing super valuable work with our families and communities and working towards positive change. Please share and follow.
go.bsky.app/9N5UEUC
organisations to follow. Everyone in this pack is doing super valuable work with our families and communities and working towards positive change. Please share and follow.
go.bsky.app/9N5UEUC
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My brother is autistic with learning disabilities, and when we were kids he used to go along with the whole Father Christmas thing, winking at me to let me know that he knew Father Christmas was not real, but he wanted to keep the traditions going so as not to spoil it for our mum and dad...
December 7, 2024 at 1:50 PM
My brother is autistic with learning disabilities, and when we were kids he used to go along with the whole Father Christmas thing, winking at me to let me know that he knew Father Christmas was not real, but he wanted to keep the traditions going so as not to spoil it for our mum and dad...
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I couldn't agree more. One size fits all services are fit for very few people. Group sessions, different case workers, changing appointment times, unclear expectations, forced eye contact, sensory overloading environments... it's just not good enough.
December 7, 2024 at 5:45 PM
I couldn't agree more. One size fits all services are fit for very few people. Group sessions, different case workers, changing appointment times, unclear expectations, forced eye contact, sensory overloading environments... it's just not good enough.
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Hey, I'm Katie!
I'm multiply ND, queer and permanantly knackered.
I'm a community researcher on cancer service experiences of marginalised people.
I've published things and conferenced things, and now I'm doing a PhD around Autistic trans+ people's experiences of health and social care.
I'm multiply ND, queer and permanantly knackered.
I'm a community researcher on cancer service experiences of marginalised people.
I've published things and conferenced things, and now I'm doing a PhD around Autistic trans+ people's experiences of health and social care.
November 10, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Hey, I'm Katie!
I'm multiply ND, queer and permanantly knackered.
I'm a community researcher on cancer service experiences of marginalised people.
I've published things and conferenced things, and now I'm doing a PhD around Autistic trans+ people's experiences of health and social care.
I'm multiply ND, queer and permanantly knackered.
I'm a community researcher on cancer service experiences of marginalised people.
I've published things and conferenced things, and now I'm doing a PhD around Autistic trans+ people's experiences of health and social care.
DSM diagnostic criteria are inadequate for assessment of adults. Whilst 18 different behavioural criteria define attentive and hyperactive components of ADHD, DSM does not recognise challenges in emotion regulation.
www.additudemag.com/adhd-in-adul...
www.additudemag.com/adhd-in-adul...
ADHD in Adults Looks Different. Most Diagnostic Criteria Ignores This Fact.
ADHD in adults looks and acts different than ADHD in children, but clinicians’ diagnostic criteria — from age cutoffs to symptom phrasing — is undifferentiated, which sacrifices the accuracy of assess...
www.additudemag.com
December 1, 2024 at 3:29 PM
DSM diagnostic criteria are inadequate for assessment of adults. Whilst 18 different behavioural criteria define attentive and hyperactive components of ADHD, DSM does not recognise challenges in emotion regulation.
www.additudemag.com/adhd-in-adul...
www.additudemag.com/adhd-in-adul...
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Great article…
Hey! Bluesky! Learn you about some Autism!
I wrote this piece after a conversation with CNN's Sanjay Gupta, and it's received tremendous feedback from both Autistic people and from educators, doctors and journalists who have learned from it.
Read it!
coda.io/@mykola-bilo...
I wrote this piece after a conversation with CNN's Sanjay Gupta, and it's received tremendous feedback from both Autistic people and from educators, doctors and journalists who have learned from it.
Read it!
coda.io/@mykola-bilo...
How To Talk About Autism Respectfully · Public Neurodiversity Support Center
A Field Guide for Journalists, Educators, Doctors and anyone else who wants to know how to better communicate about Autism.
coda.io
November 27, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Great article…
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"What is autism, if it's not a disorder?"
I get asked this. Sometimes curiously. Sometimes more as a challenge e.g. from those who 'don't believe in labels' or feel we're 'all on the spectrum.'
How to answer? 🤔
A thread 🧵
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#Autism #ASD #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic
I get asked this. Sometimes curiously. Sometimes more as a challenge e.g. from those who 'don't believe in labels' or feel we're 'all on the spectrum.'
How to answer? 🤔
A thread 🧵
⬇️
#Autism #ASD #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic
November 27, 2024 at 9:16 PM
"What is autism, if it's not a disorder?"
I get asked this. Sometimes curiously. Sometimes more as a challenge e.g. from those who 'don't believe in labels' or feel we're 'all on the spectrum.'
How to answer? 🤔
A thread 🧵
⬇️
#Autism #ASD #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic
I get asked this. Sometimes curiously. Sometimes more as a challenge e.g. from those who 'don't believe in labels' or feel we're 'all on the spectrum.'
How to answer? 🤔
A thread 🧵
⬇️
#Autism #ASD #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic
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I can hardly believe it... Extra Focus has hit 20,000 copies sold! 🎉
As a first-time, self-published author, I never imagined this would happen. But more incredible than the number? The stories of how this book is changing lives.
To celebrate, I'm doing something special...
As a first-time, self-published author, I never imagined this would happen. But more incredible than the number? The stories of how this book is changing lives.
To celebrate, I'm doing something special...
November 26, 2024 at 5:14 PM
I can hardly believe it... Extra Focus has hit 20,000 copies sold! 🎉
As a first-time, self-published author, I never imagined this would happen. But more incredible than the number? The stories of how this book is changing lives.
To celebrate, I'm doing something special...
As a first-time, self-published author, I never imagined this would happen. But more incredible than the number? The stories of how this book is changing lives.
To celebrate, I'm doing something special...
November 24, 2024 at 10:09 AM
I lived for 6 decades believing I was existentially broken. But diagnostic criteria hide far more about ND life-worlds than they reveal. It's time to step away from the pathologising, normalising, power paradigm of the medicalised model of neurodivergence.
www.adisorder4everyone.com
www.adisorder4everyone.com
A Disorder 4 Everyone! | Challenging the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnosis
A Disorder 4 Everyone! challenges the labelling culture of psychiatric diagnosis and the pathologising of emotional distress via online events, discussion, CPD training and campaigning. Because label...
www.adisorder4everyone.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:58 AM
I lived for 6 decades believing I was existentially broken. But diagnostic criteria hide far more about ND life-worlds than they reveal. It's time to step away from the pathologising, normalising, power paradigm of the medicalised model of neurodivergence.
www.adisorder4everyone.com
www.adisorder4everyone.com
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Here is more about my experience as someone who grew up undiagnosed autistic in a black household and community.
Read “Late Diagnosed Autism & Eldest Black Daughter Syndrome“ by Erica's New Normal on Medium: ericanewnormal.medium.com/late-diagnos...
Enjoy ☺️
#blacksky #neurosky #autistic #adhd
Read “Late Diagnosed Autism & Eldest Black Daughter Syndrome“ by Erica's New Normal on Medium: ericanewnormal.medium.com/late-diagnos...
Enjoy ☺️
#blacksky #neurosky #autistic #adhd
November 17, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Here is more about my experience as someone who grew up undiagnosed autistic in a black household and community.
Read “Late Diagnosed Autism & Eldest Black Daughter Syndrome“ by Erica's New Normal on Medium: ericanewnormal.medium.com/late-diagnos...
Enjoy ☺️
#blacksky #neurosky #autistic #adhd
Read “Late Diagnosed Autism & Eldest Black Daughter Syndrome“ by Erica's New Normal on Medium: ericanewnormal.medium.com/late-diagnos...
Enjoy ☺️
#blacksky #neurosky #autistic #adhd
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Not sure what exactly autism is?
Here is a fantastic resource! With many self diagnostic pre screening tests
embrace-autism.com/autistic-bur...
Here is a fantastic resource! With many self diagnostic pre screening tests
embrace-autism.com/autistic-bur...
November 22, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Not sure what exactly autism is?
Here is a fantastic resource! With many self diagnostic pre screening tests
embrace-autism.com/autistic-bur...
Here is a fantastic resource! With many self diagnostic pre screening tests
embrace-autism.com/autistic-bur...
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Forget about what RFK Jr thinks about the cause of autism. Listen to people who actually live with it. The people who self-advocate for autistic persons. They think he’s full of it, because he is.
autisticadvocacy.org/2024/11/asan...
autisticadvocacy.org/2024/11/asan...
ASAN Opposes Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Nomination to Head HHS - Autistic Self Advocacy Network
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network urges the Senate not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Kennedy’s long record of spreading misinformation ...
autisticadvocacy.org
November 23, 2024 at 12:43 AM
Forget about what RFK Jr thinks about the cause of autism. Listen to people who actually live with it. The people who self-advocate for autistic persons. They think he’s full of it, because he is.
autisticadvocacy.org/2024/11/asan...
autisticadvocacy.org/2024/11/asan...
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Autistics are >9x more likely to die by suicide
>13x if you're a woman / AFAB
>28x if you're a child
These rates go up when unidentified as Autistic
Identifying Autism in people without intellectual disability is medically necessary
Lives are at stake.
I'll repeat it as many times as I have to.
>13x if you're a woman / AFAB
>28x if you're a child
These rates go up when unidentified as Autistic
Identifying Autism in people without intellectual disability is medically necessary
Lives are at stake.
I'll repeat it as many times as I have to.
Why Suicide Is All Too Common Among Autistic Adults
Suicide rates are extremely high among autistic adults. Reevaluating the way workplaces, families, and friends relate to the support needs of autistic adults might be the answer.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Autistics are >9x more likely to die by suicide
>13x if you're a woman / AFAB
>28x if you're a child
These rates go up when unidentified as Autistic
Identifying Autism in people without intellectual disability is medically necessary
Lives are at stake.
I'll repeat it as many times as I have to.
>13x if you're a woman / AFAB
>28x if you're a child
These rates go up when unidentified as Autistic
Identifying Autism in people without intellectual disability is medically necessary
Lives are at stake.
I'll repeat it as many times as I have to.
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“Autistic people should always be involved in research in a meaningful way and should be listened to at every stage of a project.
By doing that, researchers can avoid inadvertently doing research that is either harmful to autistic people, or which misinterprets the findings."
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By doing that, researchers can avoid inadvertently doing research that is either harmful to autistic people, or which misinterprets the findings."
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Why autistic people must be at the heart of autism research
A research project led entirely by autistic people aims to change the way autism research is conducted.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2024 at 12:31 PM
“Autistic people should always be involved in research in a meaningful way and should be listened to at every stage of a project.
By doing that, researchers can avoid inadvertently doing research that is either harmful to autistic people, or which misinterprets the findings."
🫠
By doing that, researchers can avoid inadvertently doing research that is either harmful to autistic people, or which misinterprets the findings."
🫠
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Hey guys, it's our first skeet! 🎙️
On Episode 249, Emily Kircher-Morris chats with Diane Dempster and Elaine Taylor-Klaus from Impact Parents. They talk about the challenge of motivating neurodivergent kids, and break down why it’s so challenging.
neurodiversitypodcast.com/home/2024/11...
On Episode 249, Emily Kircher-Morris chats with Diane Dempster and Elaine Taylor-Klaus from Impact Parents. They talk about the challenge of motivating neurodivergent kids, and break down why it’s so challenging.
neurodiversitypodcast.com/home/2024/11...
Episode 249: Unlocking Motivation in Neurodivergent Children — The Neurodiversity Podcast
When it comes to neurodivergent brains, motivation isn't quite as simple as it seems.
neurodiversitypodcast.com
November 16, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Hey guys, it's our first skeet! 🎙️
On Episode 249, Emily Kircher-Morris chats with Diane Dempster and Elaine Taylor-Klaus from Impact Parents. They talk about the challenge of motivating neurodivergent kids, and break down why it’s so challenging.
neurodiversitypodcast.com/home/2024/11...
On Episode 249, Emily Kircher-Morris chats with Diane Dempster and Elaine Taylor-Klaus from Impact Parents. They talk about the challenge of motivating neurodivergent kids, and break down why it’s so challenging.
neurodiversitypodcast.com/home/2024/11...