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These claims provide a convenient narrative to gatekeep support under current SEN reforms in the UK, denying help to those who appear to be "functioning", no matter how much they struggle internally and what consequences this will have on their mental health and future. 4/

Unsurprisingly, it's the voices of autistic girls and women that are the primary targets of Frith's comments, who question the legitimacy of our experiences and even diagnosis, dismissing our struggles entirely. 3/

And arguing that those who can articulate their thoughts mustn't be autistic is a decades-old strategy to silence autistic voices and exclude us from research made about us. In fact, it is the same strategy that has been and is being used against many other minorities to deny them any agency. 2/

Uta Frith's claims that autistic masking doesn't exist because of a lack of research ignores a significant body of peer-reviewed research directly linking long-term masking to burnout, depression, and suicidality. It silences the voices of autistic people who have been sharing their experiences. 1/

A most excellent response to Uta Frith's statements!

New conference poster 🙂

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“Masking Is a Myth, Late Diagnoses Are Wrong, and Non-Speaking Autistic People May Be Lying” - What Uta Frith Got Wrong — canary SEND Professor Uta Frith said masking isn't real, late diagnoses were mistakes, and non-speaking autistic people may be lying. She had no evidence. Here's the response she didn't get.

Uta Frith said masking isn’t real, late diagnoses were probably wrong, and non-speaking autistic people who write may be lying. She admitted she had no proof. None of it was challenged. I wrote the response she didn’t get: www.canarysend.co.uk/canarysendbl...

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@petewharmby.com isn't active on here these days, but he, along with others, has written a response to that Uta Frith TES article www.twinkl.co.uk/news/experts...

Well, that's a big disappointment.

I think it's actually something that's been a major influence on my music, yet I've only just verbalised it 😅 I suppose it's a good way to celebrate Weird Pride Day!

#WeirdPride #MusicalNeuroqueering

It's the same if I try to visualise a place, or an object. My mental picture of it is not very precise visually, yet it feels very realistic as I experience it in a multi-sensory synaesthetic way.

On the other hand, the multi-sensory experience I get from the person whose face I am trying to imagine is extremely vivid. The sensations. The smells, colours, emotions, tastes, sounds, gestures, general feelings that make up how I perceive that person.

A conversation earlier today about graphic design made me wonder how I visualise things. If I try to conjure an image in my mind's eye, there is a picture. But it's often poorly defined. If it's a face, for instance, I don't see the details.

It's my favorite holiday, WEIRD PRIDE DAY!

I'll be spending the day being weird (same thing I do every day, Pinky).

Here's a nice thread of Weird Pride events.

Or, you can celebrate Weird Pride Day by catching up on the Weird Luck webcomic!

#weird #weirdpride

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Happy Weird Pride Day to all who celebrate!

I'm really happy with how it's coming together so far. I hope we'll see a good few people posting bits of writing and videos and things today, too, besides the things I've directly organised myself (with help from many others)...

Gramsci on Madness and Fascism Hegemony and Sanist Slurs

I've published a new substack post on the ideological function of dismissing political opponents as 'mad' or 'insane'.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

We highly encourage submissions about Mad Music and less researched types of neurodivergence for the Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference!

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New study highlights the day-to-day importance of autistic flow | BPS Work by Daniella Wain and colleagues details a non-pathologising view of flow states in autistic individuals, and how they maintain wellbeing

New study highlights the day-to-day importance of autistic flow
Work by Daniella Wain and colleagues details a non-pathologising view of flow states in autistic individuals, and how they maintain wellbeing

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By Emily Reynolds
03 March 2026
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A dark teal slide themed around Alice in Wonderland. In the centre-left, a large quote in a white speech box reads: “Do you suppose she’s a wildflower?” Beneath the quote is an illustration of a colourful mushroom surrounded by flowers. On the right side is a whimsical drawing of Alice floating horizontally inside a room filled with shelves, jars, and curiosities. At the bottom left stands the White Rabbit holding a pocket watch. The title “Alice in Wonderland” appears in large text across the bottom, with “Alice” in a script-style font and “in Wonderland” in bold yellow lettering. Decorative elements include a teapot and teacup set, and an “Autistic Realms – Neurodiversity Affirming” logo in the bottom right. Small text at the bottom credits Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and notes that images were created in Canva.

Happy @weirdpride.day 2026!
'Weird Pride is a celebration, but it is also, always, a protest: an act of resistance and solidarity, in a world where nonconformity is too often punished'. Even in hostile ground, wildflowers can find a way to bloom. Join our community events
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In fact, many ideas in Autistic and, more broadly, Neurodivergent music are emerging simultaneously through various practices and disciplines.

And it is only through connection, messy experimentation, and knowledge exchange that this new field of Neurodivergent Music Studies can take shape. 4/

In this context, co-creative research methods are particularly suited to study and expand Autistic music making. 3/

I find it's the opposite. Much like "Autistic culture is rhizomatic", with "no single culture, no universal experience" (see @autisticrealms.bsky.social OG post), Autistic music evolves through horizontal interactions, simultaneously happening in multiple directions. 2/

Thought provoking article by @autisticrealms.bsky.social !

Some aspects of it resonated deeply with my own research and creative practice.

Because of all the harmful stereotypes around autistic people, there's a common belief that autistic musicians like to work in isolation. 1/

Wonderful article! And I love the concept autistic culture as rhizomatic. It definitely resonates with what I am observing in my practice and research: understanding and expanding autistic and neurodivergent creative processes happens best through a weird, rhizomatic, co-creative approach.

Why We Need More Autistic Health Care Professionals and How to Support Them - Sara Eileen O’Neil Woods, 2026 Many autistic characteristics (especially attention to detail, social nonconformity, monotropism, and knowledge of autism) set autistic health care professional...

#AutRes Being Autistic made me a better floor nurse and makes me a better prescriber & diagnostician 💯

Autistic healthcare professionals could fill the staffing shortage (read: labor crisis) if we paid fair wages, had universal healthcare, and accepted more PT positions w/in healthcare settings.

I’m doing this tomorrow after some sleep, finishing my slides, maybe washing my hair, it’s going to be fun, come along

I will not promise a complete overview of the lit on epistemic injustice because lol no fucking way but I can promise a useful introduction to epistemic oppression/ignorance

Wholeheartedly agree! I'm in the same situation, and it is so infuriating when conference organisers don't even *try* to make things hybrid and accessible. Like you said, it doesn't need to be perfect. The technology to do that is there. They just don't care.

This conference is organised by the Neurodivergent Music Network, a CHASE @chase-dtp.bsky.social Research Network.

We're a cross-disciplinary hub for ND researchers to explore the intersection between music and neurodivergence, sharing ideas and methodologies.

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2026 Virtual Summer Conference Dear all, We are excited to invite you to the Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference on June 26th (synchronous) and July 1st 2026 (asynchronous).  Our virtual event is held by the Neurodivergent...

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS

For the Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference: a two day, fully virtual conference on June 26th (synchronous) and July 1st (asynchronous).

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Grateful for my 1st paper being published

‘HOSPITAL NOISES: Sonic Autobiography and the Embodied Experience of Autistic Auditory Perception – A Transdisciplinary Arts-Practice Inquiry’ - Journal of Creative Research Methods 2:1, early view April @brisunipress.bsky.social #autism #abr #PaR #academia