For all autistic freshers and returning autistic college students, do listen if you get a chance!

Susan Madigan@susanmadigan3.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I recently recorded 2 podcasts for Middletown Centre for Autism, they may be of benefit to anyone with college bound autistic young people getting offers tomorrow! 1.Starting university as an autistic student. 2. Practical ways for Autistic students to reset for term open.spotify.com/show/5mSa0W6...

I recently recorded 2 podcasts for Middletown Centre for Autism, they may be of benefit to anyone with college bound autistic young people getting offers tomorrow! 1.Starting university as an autistic student. 2. Practical ways for Autistic students to reset for term open.spotify.com/show/5mSa0W6...

The Middletown Centre for Autism Podcast

Podcast · Middletown Autism · The Middletown Podcast features interviews with leading thinkers and practitioners across the autistic and autism community. Conversations are autism-affirming and neurod...

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Over the past 10 years I’ve work with higher education institutions, companies, and physical and mental health teams across the country, delivering training on neurodiversity. In the past year, however, something has changed. 1/? 🧵#TheADHDMyth

The UK arguably has (had) the lowest known stigma toward autism journals.plos.org/plosone/arti..., yet critics seem to think stigma has dropped too far in a world that remains too often deadly. All the retrenchment in the media and policy risks making the world a deadlier place. 8/ end

Cross-cultural variation in experiences of acceptance, camouflaging and mental health difficulties in autism: A registered report

Recent findings suggest that stigma and camouflaging contribute to mental health difficulties for autistic individuals, however, this evidence is largely based on UK samples. While studies have shown ...

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As of Cabinet yesterday, one now needs the ability to communicate in order to be considered a citizen. Yet in the first three months of 2026, not a single child in ten counties was given a plan on how the State would deliver them with speech and language therapy. This week’s column @thejournal.ie:

Gavan Reilly: Six months by law. 24.3 months in reality. Ireland's disability numbers don't add up

The eye-watering numbers of children waiting for Assessment of Need in this country expose a broken system offering little hope to families.

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Gorgeous day as always #AsIAmConf2026. Amazing to hear @sarasiobhan.bsky.social discuss her work on social murder, echoing Engels work. Sometimes I feel like I'm shouting into the void, don't you know autistic and ADHD folks have auto immune at twice the rate of everyone else? Look at the data lads!

In case anyone comes across either the ADHD is over diagnosed or Autism is over diagnosed BS. Here are two pieces I wrote that demolish both of those arguments On ADHD (which also touches on Trans & Autism) I wrote www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-e... On Autism dermotcasey.net/the-challeng...

“When I get sick and I can't afford medicine, what are the holistic and low-cost alternatives that I can turn to because I know that I can't afford to see a doctor?” First, holistic medicine is mostly a luxury good, not a function of poverty.

Looking for book and graphic novel suggestions for a 14-year-old who: A) Loves the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels and books like World War Z & Project Hail Mary. B) Isn't into superheroes/harry potter/fantasy (working on getting him into Pratchett).

A journal editorial asked whether autism has lost its meaning. A documentary asked whether ADHD is real. My new blog post is about what that does to the people who then say nothing. blogs.city.ac.uk/needs/autism...

Fun fact: the Emergency didn't technically end until 1976, when the government wanted to declare a new emergency because of the Troubles (another euphemism) and discovered the never formally ended the old one. So the Dáil had to vote to end the emergency, then immediately declare a new emergency.

One area where a substantial amount of really good autism research has been done is on the question of *what autism research ought to get done*. They've systematically asked autistic people and others with a reason to care, and keep coming back with the same answers. 🧵⬇️... bsky.app/profile/oolo...

Fergus Murray@oolong.co.uk · last yr.

It is extremely galling that research on causes of autism has received far, FAR more funding than any other area. "The three least important topics were genetics or biological aspects of autism, autism treatments/interventions and causes of autism. " pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38311602/#:h...

Wow. As someone who was diagnosed (after extensive evaluation and testing) with ADHD last year at age 60, I can say that it and treatment changed my life dramatically for the better. It also explained the challenges I faced through life from childhood. It’s a very real thing.

Roshana D set up a secret school for girls in Afghanistan but fled to Pakistan when she was discovered by the Taliban. She is now in hiding - but still spoke to Irishwoman's Diary to ensure that women's voices are heard. Such courage 🙏 #SpeirGorm www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...?

Clodagh Finn: A window into life of an Afghan woman who set up a secret school for girls and now lives in hiding

Roshana Dadgar set up a secret school in Afghanistan to educate young girls. She was later forced to flee to Pakistan and now lives under the threat of deportation, writes Clodagh Finn

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I recently recorded 2 podcasts for Middletown Centre for Autism, they may be of benefit to anyone with college bound autistic young people getting offers tomorrow! 1.Starting university as an autistic student. 2. Practical ways for Autistic students to reset for term open.spotify.com/show/5mSa0W6...

The Middletown Centre for Autism Podcast

Podcast · Middletown Autism · The Middletown Podcast features interviews with leading thinkers and practitioners across the autistic and autism community. Conversations are autism-affirming and neurod...

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arday was being used by these institutions as a symbol of their own goodness, and then he was used in turn by right-wing opportunists who wanted to smear them. he wasn't entirely a victim, of course, but he also wasn't the only one being dishonest.

The only conversation worth having is how Black people are overpoliced & over-punished & held to different standards in all aspects of life. That there is an outrage when Black people transgress that isn’t there when their non-Black counterparts do.

There’s growing discourse around the “overdiagnosis” of Autism and ADHD—particularly in adults. Critics say these diagnoses are now being handed out too easily, "its all gone too far", even framing them as trendy. But this view misses something fundamental. 1/24

But I think some part of it is that isolation can cause is to lose community and continuity of ability to recognise each other and the things Ruth identifies about our trade offs, demanding rights means becoming visible, which means being vulnerable to backlash... It's all tough but we fight anyway.

A new essay for all my trans siblings and our allies. "As the UK enters a new era of state-mandated segregation, I find myself asking: was it all worth it?"

What we have won

It was the largest trans protest in British history. We travelled from across the country to central London. We were joined by allies, especially cis gay, lesbian, bisexual, and queer people who re…

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I posted this on Instagram and asked who could name the flats that it's based on and let me tell you people are tearing their hair out

Again, they signed up to the plan when implementation was in the distant future. Then they failed to act in the first few years, requiring the steps to be more severe in the later years to compensate. Now, as actual action looms, they attack the whole thing as extreme.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3mo ago

Emergency infrastructure laws ‘may be at extremity’ of what is constitutionally permitted

Can’t lie, I was kind of enjoying the brief time period where these jokes seemed to stop being relevant. Quite weird to hope for your own material to become obsolete, but here we are, I suppose.

The Volatile Mermaid@ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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Excited to share that our Women of the Borderlands archive is now available. It's the 1st to preserve the voices of women and the gendered complexities of life in and around the UK/Irish borderlands. We are so grateful to our research participants and the IQDA for making this happen.

New Collection in DRI – Women of the Borderlands: Gender, Conflict and Cross-Border Mobilities Along the UK/Irish Border - Digital Repository of Ireland

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is delighted to announce that a new collection – Women of the Borderlands: Gender, Conflict and Cross-Border Mobilities Along the UK/Irish Border – has been pub...

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Noticing how tech in many ways increases friction of everyday life rather than relieving it. Example: I’m in a coffee chain that has prohibitive double tier pricing. Huge palaver ahead of me in the queue as a staff helps an elderly woman figure out the app. Ultimately driven by profit not utility

We have this "pay what you can afford" webinar upcoming on July 31st, spaces are limited so please get your tickets fast to avoid disappointment! events.humanitix.com/surviving-th... #ActuallyAutistic #autism #SubstanceUse #MentalHealth #neurodiversity

Surviving The System- Autism, Addiction, And The Road To Recovery

Join David Gray-Hammond as he explores his Autistic experience of addiction recovery through the lens of the ecosystemic model of distress.

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This week’s edition is about hare coursing, data centres, the Occupied Territories Bill, and how we’re prepared to build our economy around such pernicious things… and we don’t even get a good economy out of it.

I wrote about Little House in the Prairie which is basically 19th century centrism (steal the land of others but feel sad about it) www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Patrick Freyne: Look at these kind colonisers, stealing people’s land and feeling sad about it

Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie feeds into the fantasy that settlers have a great moral message (‘finders keepers’)

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Listening to a lady on Morning Ireland talking about getting a special card for people with medical conditions to get access to businesses toilets. Sorry but what are we paying taxes for? This is an extremely basic state responsibility. Where are the public toilets?

We've just added another of Dinah's chapters, from a 2011 book called Autism and Learning. Attached is a list of "Why computers suit autistic individuals", each one expanded on in the text. monotropism.org/autism-it/