“Read Dr. Emily Barker’s account of working in #ABA and special education, the #abuse and neglect she witnessed, and her proposed solutions.” #autism #child-abuse
on 02026-09-18previous #medical #paper calling for caution around #paracetamol use during pregnancy due to risks of #autism, etc.
on 02025-09-10#medical #paper finding no increase in #autism or #ADHD due to #paracetamol use during pregnancy — when controlled for siblings. What does this mean?
on 02025-09-10#Titans-of-CNC #video about #autism in #machining, promoting Spartan-CNC.com. Turns out Titan Gilroy’s son is diagnosed with Asperger’s.
on 02025-05-28#news on #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador: immigrants from #Venezuela get snatched off the street because they have tattoos, for example, an #autism awareness tattoo. Apparently all of the families whose members have been disappeared report that they are being held incommunicado and that they have tattoos. #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28Are weird nerds being driven out of #academia by hedge fund opportunities and failed corporatists? Only a third of top-10 science-fair winners go into academia now (02003–02014) instead of two thirds in 01990–02002. #autism
on 02024-07-28#stimulants and Parkinson’s provoke the compulsive performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, similar to stimming. #autism #neuroscience
on 02022-12-28on #autism and #genetics: de novo duplications and deletions in Human Accelerated Regions are much more common among autistic children.
on 02016-10-03nickpsecurity suggests that #autism makes hackers posthuman slans.
on 02016-10-03#Autism makes it hard for other people to understand your emotions, even if they’re autistic too. #psychology
on 02016-09-11on how self-deception in #facilitated-communication results in #rape of people with #autism by their “facilitators”, as well as false rape accusations against their family members, enabled by wishful thinking and #pseudoscience.
on 02015-11-12