Christina Nicolaidis, MD, MPH

Group photo of 19 people and a service dog posing in a Moroccan restaurant. Most of the people are Autism in Adulthood Editorial Board Members.

@autisminadulthood.bsky.social annual Editorial Board dinner at #INSAR2025 (with a few guests). What a phenomenal team! Hard to believe that 7 years ago we showed up to INSAR with our first little Preview Issue. I so appreciate all the people who have made our journal into what it is today.

Photo of a group of 17 people who are posing for the shot. They are all AASPIRE team members or people who are collaborating with AASPIRE on research projects.

Great to see many of our AASPIRE team members and collaborators at #INSAR2025! Missing those who couldn’t come. I’m incredibly fortunate to work with such wonderful people.

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Autism in Adulthood has great representation at #INSAR2025 this year! Come talk to anyone wearing a blue “Ask Me About Autism in Adulthood” button to learn more about our journal (or go to www.liebertpub.com/aut).

Autism in Adulthood is recruiting 6 new Deputy Editors/Editors to help us respond to the huge rise in submissions. More info at drive.google.com/file/d/1cdgs.... If interested, please send a c.v. and a short statement about your interest to autisminadulthood@pdx.edu. Or talk to me at #INSAR2025.

When autism researchers from all sorts of disciplines, paradigms, methodologies, politics, and worldviews agree, you know the threats to science and to autistic people have gotten way outside the bounderies of typical scientific debate.
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“I Don't Understand Their Sense of Belonging”: Exploring How Nonbinary Autistic Adults Experience Gender | Autism in Adulthood Background: The term “nonbinary” refers to all gender identities that are not exclusively male or female. Nonbinary identities are more common in autistic people than in nonautistic people. Yet resear...

“I Don't Understand Their Sense of Belonging”: study by Mary Peachey found that connecting with other #autistic and queer people helped #nonbinary autistic people accept their identities after years of #masking

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Psychological Interventions for Autistic Adolescents with Co-Occurring Anxiety and Depression: Considerations Linked to Autism Social Identity and Masking | Autism in Adulthood Adolescence marks a time of increased vulnerability to developing mental health difficulties. Recent literature has pointed towards both risk and protective factors that contribute to the development ...

Psychological Interventions for Autistic Adolescents with Co-Occurring Anxiety and Depression: commentary by Jiedi Lei proposes assessments to help clinicians and #autistic individuals jointly understand the link between #autism and co-occurring #mentalhealth issues

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Lived experience of autistic adults in employment: synthesis by David Thorpe uses social relational model of disability & reports voices of #autistic workers should be prioritised in designing work environments

READ AGAIN, FREE to 14 Feb:

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Check out this incredible Neurodiversity Employment Toolkit, co-developed by @autisminadulthood.bsky.social’s Executive Editor @rebeccaflower.bsky.social and their neurodiverse team. It’s meant to help employers recruit and support neurodivergent employees. So cool! vpsc.vic.gov.au/workforce-ca...

Thanks!! And yes, Clarivate recognized an error in the calculation, so they revised our JIF to 9.9. (I don’t think the difference is meaningful, but it’s still nice.) I’m most excited about the actual real-world impact the journal is having, thanks to all the amazing people involved!

So proud of Dr Aimee Grant and her participatory research team. It’s been an absolute delight to consult on her project and to see how deeply she values equity and inclusion. One of the best examples of a team following AASPIRE’s Guidelines that I’ve ever seen!!

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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...

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/...

Autism in Adulthood has joined BlueSky! Come visit us at bsky.app/profile/auti...

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I feel ya buddy. But our work is more important than ever. #persisterhood.

That’s devastating. So sorry to hear this news. My deepest condolences. I know @stevesilberman.bsky.social hated the overuse of the word “impact”, but his writing, advocacy, humor, and compassion did have an amazing impact on the world. I’m sure I’m not the only one who will really miss him.

Clarivate just released the 2023 Journal Impact Factors and wow - @AutismAdulthood now has a JIF of 9.5!!! Thanks to everyone who has poured their love and energy into our journal. Goes to show the value of taking an inclusive approach to research and scholarship! Go AiA!

Please consider signing on to this letter to contest the NIMHD Advisory Council's recent rejection of recs to designate people with disabilities as a ‘health disparity population’. 
 
Signatures are due by noon ET this Friday, 9/8. Please share widely. docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

Our new perspective article is out! Mindshift in autism: a call to professionals in research, clinical, and educational settings.
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We have re-opened recruitment for our AASPIRE Outcomes Project! Be a part of our study where we see how the outcomes that matter most to autistic adults change over time. We also hope to better understand what supports and services may help autistic adults thrive! aaspire.org/projects/out...