'They selected only male participants because most autism cases are diagnosed in males, and including females could introduce confounding effects' - I thought we'd spent the last decade on this circular issue of assuming autism is more common in males because we only test males

Things have just got a lot more difficult . Here’s what I think . I had no control over what just happened . None . But I do have control over how I will react to it . And I am not going to give up on the beautiful and the good , the grip on my dreams just got tighter .

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

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Port Na bPúcaí, The Fairy Lament. A traditional Irish tune for season of Samhain said to have been first heard on Ireland's west coast coming from ghosts far off in the Atlantic Ocean

If everyone was a little autistic… I would not need any accommodations, as the world would be made for me. What things do you think would be different if the world would actually consider our wants and needs?

wept, anxiety attacks, nightmares and more!

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Nine things parents are encouraged to think are all their fault. A thread 🧵 ⬇️ #Parenting #ActuallyAutistic #UnpaidCarers

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This NHS wheelchair rental scheme raises serious concerns under the Equality Act 2010: 1. It discriminates against disabled, elderly and other groups of patients who may lack credit cards required for access. 2. It charges £2/hour during long A&E waits with no info or apparent

"Everyone is autistic." Not with fluorescent lights in nearly every building they're not.

I cannot stress enough how important it is you watch this gorilla bathe-dancing to maniac.

The bottom line is, women do not want nor are we asking for men to protect us, we’re asking for men to stop being the thing we need protection from. I can’t make it any clearer.

A good example of the tokenism that so often passes for 'action' on biodiversity collapse: a 'bug hotel', plonked in a garden of a) Sterile lawns b) Alien plants It's shocking, I know, but what wildlife *really* needs is actual wild, natural HABITAT.

Can we start normalising older MCs (40+) in fantasy books because as much as I love the 20 something chosen one trope, I’d prefer more sword fighting mums & dads or older please. We need representation!

Boat owners moving a large floating ‘island’ out of the way on Wisconsin's Lake Chippewa

“I have seen men survive diseases that women do not because of the care that women caregivers provide to their male partner when they are sick-I have only seen that happen once or twice for a female patient being taken care of by a man when she is sick.” My jaw is on the floor.

When seeking justice for multiple rapes is reframed as ‘seeking revenge’, you know you’re governed by abusers and criminals.

"Gisèle Pélicot asked for an open public trial so that the faces of the RAPISTS can be seen. And the media are filming her and taking her out. It is unfair and disgusting. Let us feminist women do what she asked for “that shame changes sides”, by spreading their faces in print."