Brian Irvine

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

Brian and slide. Applications for Practices

Excited to be at the book launch of Waldock & Keates 2025

Am pleasantly surprised with the CofE with its new ABC.

Identifying and supporting the needs of autistic children and young people CRAE’s Mel Romualdez was part of a team of UCL academics who wrote the rapid evidence report on ‘Identifying and supporting the needs of children and young people with SEND’. They have put together…

CRAE’s @melromualdez.bsky.social and the @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social team wrote the rapid evidence report on ‘Identifying and supporting the needs of children and young people with SEND’ for the DfE

Our summary of the autistic children & yp section here
crae.ioe.ac.uk/rapid...
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I Am Autistic - Reframing Autism

"Just remember, your organic Autistic ways of socialising, communicating, thinking and processing are not disordered or defective or broken; they are just different. You are not broken, you are a wonderful, whole, Autistic person." At Reframing Autism:

reframingautism.org.au/service/i-am... #autism

Chatting with @krysiawally.bsky.social is always amazing. 🤩

This was a joy to do with @krysiawally.bsky.social
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Age is a tricky one. It could be simply that - as a minority and on average - autistic folk take a while longer to find someone who gets them to settle down with and have kids.

5) So I am grumbly, these studies looking for a link make no mention of whether the families are autistic families. Having autistic folk in charge of this research would have avoided this obvious oversight.
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It may be that a choice of pain relief accounts for the American study that found a little more acetaminophen in the cord plasma of mothers of autistic children (Ji et al., 2020).

Not taking the sensory and pain needs of the mums into account seems like a glaring mistake.
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3) Smaller studies in Europe (Avella-Garcia, 2016; Leppert, 2019; Liew, 2016) have a slim link between paracetamol and autism, but none say in which direction.

So 4) It might be that autistic mums have a greater pain burden when autistic hypermobility meets pregnancy hypermobility. (4/6)

2) The big study (Ahlqvist et al, 2024) and the one that looked at sibling (Ahlquist, 2024b) found no link. This sibling study without a link to paracetamol is particularly important because autism is genetic. (3/6)

So
1) There are not many solid studies on autism & paracetamol (Prada et al., 2025). Making any pronouncement ferments worry and fear.. and makes my cynical side wonder who is benefiting from this grift.
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Acetaminophen & autism. Some thoughts as I read the research.
I’m a just ed researcher, I worry about how autism is talked about.
Going through the stats to work out what Trump was on about is particularly disheartening; it’s all about risk, as if autism were a disease.
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OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It OpenAI's latest research paper diagnoses exactly why ChatGPT and other large language models can make things up – known in the world of artificial intelligence as "hallucination".

Seems like AI - like many of us - has been bullied into being unable to say “I don’t know”

www.sciencealert.com/openai-has-a...

So cool! Schedule on the back of a name badge.

Genius conference accessibility thingy
- Signed up sessions printed on the back of your name badge!!

Very much looking forward to tomorrow’s #NDinHE3 conference - Neurodiversity in Higher Education

Do join Lucy & I for the recording of Neuromentoring live at 2:30.

And if you’re around at 4, I’ll be closing us up with a talk on Hopeful Optimism in Higher Ed.

Sam presents his poster

CRAE PhD student, Sam Dexter, presented his research about careers guidance for autistic young people at #AutismEurope 🇮🇪
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That was a Brian original quote; half made up on the spot.

I think it would make an amazing t-shirt slogan 😁

What a fabulous book launch!

Lovely hearing from so many of the authors of the various chapters! A really valuable resource!

"Monotropism is rocket fuel for change.
Monotropism is rocket fuel for learning."

as quoted by @brianirvine.bsky.social - Indeed!

www.igi-global.com/book/neurodi...

<waves while blushing>

Really looking forward to tonight’s launch of ND Ed and Lifelong Learning.

Probably still just time to get an invite

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Came across my first painted roundabout yesterday. It caused 3 thoughts
1) I feel odd about driving over our flag
2) You could have done it straight you divots
3) Didn’t St G’s mum come from Gaza?

Probably not the message intended. 3/10 poor protest.

Empowering Autistic people in research — Neurodiverse Connection We’re joined on the blog by Guest Contributors, Katie Munday and Naomi Jacobs , sharing their experiences as Autistic researchers and their passion for research conducted with Autistic people, not ...

Writing with @naomijacobs.bsky.social on the importance of centring Autistic people in autism research.

Thanks for hosting us @ndconnection.bsky.social

#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #Autistic #Neurodivergent #Research #AutRes

ndconnection.co.uk/blog/empower...

Communication is a human right—right? On Sunday, Sept 14, I'll be moderating a panel of four autistic nonspeakers, along with Dr. Vikram Jaswal, discussing how transformative it is when people can access communication that works for them:

stanfordneurodiversityproject.stanford.edu/events/day-2...

Our two book launches are coming up... the first one is Monday (8th)!

More info and how to sign up below...
Book Launch 1: Neurodivergent Education and Lifelong Learning (Hybrid) on Monday, 8 September 2025, between 6.00 pm and 8.15 pm Inkd.in/esEZaRjE

Older autistic people need more help after years of misdiagnosis, review finds Research estimates 90% of Britons over 50 with autism aren’t getting right treatment and face added difficulties

A review found that 90% of autistic people aged over 50 in Britain are either undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, and the same is likely true in other countries. Our middle-aged & older autistic people deserve proper supports NOW after a lifetime without accommodations.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia Connor Keating considers whether emotion-processing differs between autistic and non-autistic adults after controlling for alexithymia.

Our October #CRAEwebinar:
Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism, Alexithymia and Psychological Mechanisms.

@connortkeating.bsky.social will ask, do autistic & non-autistic adults process emotions differently once alexithymia is in the mix?
2nd Oct 4 pm BST

Sign up:
www.eventbrite.co.uk...

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📣 Applications and Practices for Empowering Neurodivergent Learners (ebook) has just been published!

👉 You can find more information (including a free sample and chapter abstracts) here: lnkd.in/ee5mbdNa