What a pleasure and honour to spend a week thinking about wellbeing with this phantastic group of researchers, clinicians and autism advocates! Thanks to @lorentzcenter.bsky.social!

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Researchers, practitioners, and autism community stakeholders discuss facilitators and barriers to support wellbeing, strengths, and identity development in autistic people. @jiedilei.bsky.social @ilianamagiati.bsky.social @jeroendewinter.bsky.social @juliettegudkne1.bsky.social bit.ly/3OkId8P

Happy to share our paper on Autism and sexual assistance, just published in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Our paper on how both cisgender, and trans and gender-diverse (TGD) autistic individuals experienced their gender identity development over time was published today! doi.org/10.1177/1362...

Gender identity development in autistic individuals: An interview study - Robin Michiels, Marie Groffi, Jeroen Dewinter, Ilse Noens, Paul Enzlin, 2026

Autistic individuals report more gender-related questions and gender incongruence compared to non-autistic peers. However, research on gender identity in autist...

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Happy to share our paper on the capability approach as a framework to think about and discuss wellbeing with autistic young adults and their networks. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Identification of Capabilities of Autistic Young Adults: Towards an Understanding of Autistic Flourishing - Child Psychiatry & Human Development

Views on autism shifted from a biomedical view to a neurodiversity-framework, with a parallel change in views on the nature of wellbeing. In this qualitative study the Capability Approach (CA), a theo...

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Proud to be the laureate of the first ever LAVA Scholarship for autistic researchers! Upon request: a link to the written version of my acceptance speech in Dutch, with English translation. kathetgedacht.com/2025/02/22/l... Thank you! I hope to honour this scholarship and the autistic community.

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Wat een dag.

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Are you an autistic adult who is or has been in psychotherapy? Or, are you a therapist who works with autistic adults? Take part in this interview study and help us better adjust psychotherapy for the autistic population.

How do autism charities prioritize support for the intimate lives of autistic people? Jay et al critically reviewed all publicly available local autism strategies in England and found a clear lack of of positive and proportionate representations of intimate lives. www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

A Critical Analysis of How Local Autism Strategies Represent Autistic Adults’ Intimate Lives | Autism in Adulthood

Background: Intimate relationships are an important, yet ordinary, part of many people’s lives. However, autistic people experience greater challenges around sex and intimate relationships and more lo...

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