Dr David Jackson-Perry

Grave Concerns About Profound Autism The label "Profound autism" bungles the support needs of autistic people with complex disabilities, and will endanger autistic lives.

More nope on #ProfoundAutism: An Autistic person’s ALS was only diagnosed a couple of months before they died, as their symptoms of progressive muscle weakness & associated disability were assumed to be 'challenging behavior' due to being 'severely Autistic.'

thinkingautismguide.com/2023/09/grav...

YouTube video by Thriving Autistic Discovering You're Autistic

Hurrah!
We can finally share the animations I have been working on with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social
First short film is: Discovering You're Autistic
Please do let us know what you think and share if you find valuable!

youtu.be/-eDv2omDMko?...

Hi Helen, there are a few chapters in The Palgrave
Handbook of Research Methods and Ethics in Neurodiversity
Studies that might be useful and I'd be happy to share with you!

Just to acknowledge the elders that also went there in great detail many years ago like the fabulous Institute for the Study of the Neurologically Typical (erikengdahl.se/autism/isnt/) or Andrew Main's 2003 work on 'allism: an introduction to a little-known condition' www.fysh.org/~zefram/alli... !

There is a sort of short form version of that chapter here as well in case it is of interest: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fabulous research by Wassell (2025) about the importance of Autistic Joy & monotropism!
"Autistic voices suggest that the key barrier to
joyful experience is not autism itself but other
people's lack of acceptance of authentic
autistic behaviours such as stimming and
pursuit of special interests."

Completely agree @autisticrealms.bsky.social , this is very unknowing-y, I wish I had known about it when writing that!

The Autistic Rhizome: Reclaiming Knowledge, Rewriting Reality A tribute to the growth of Autistic community

My most in-depth discussion of the Autistic rhizome so far. I hope that people find value in it!

www.davidgrayhammond.co.uk/p/the-autist...

#ActuallyAutistic #AutisticRhizome #NeuroqueerTheory #Neuroqueering #neurodiversity

A Saturday reshare of this week's new starter pack inspired by @ndhumanities.bsky.social's Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference 2025

go.bsky.app/6ftC1uS

Nothing About Us Without Us: Autistic-Led Organisations, Charities & Social Media to Follow | Autistic Realms 💫 If you're feeling stuck or lost with where to go and who to follow in Autistic Community, I have a growing list of Autistic-led organisations, groups ...

Nothing About Us Without Us: Autistic-Led Organisations, Charities & Social Media to Follow
(Also a few that aren't Autistic-led but are doing amazing work & are wonderful allies in our community)
autisticrealms.com/nothing-abou...