Dr. Alyssa (they/them)

Pet peeve in autism research: Assuming that autistic trans men had the childhood experience of autistic girls and that autistic trans women had the childhood experience of autistic boys.

It's an extraordinary claim that should include evidence.

New preprint alert! Drawing from our experiences and observations on two initiatives with participatory aspirations, we have identified challenges, strategies, and recommendations for better and neurodiversity-affirming autism research. 10.13140/RG.2.2.27146.12481 1/

Every use-case people think they "need" and LLM for is actually papering over a different issue. The teacher using ChatGPT to write narrative reports bc the demand is unreasonable & overwhelming *actually* needs more support and/or compensation or a reduction of demand. It's a LABOR issue.

Balancing "the disabled person has more struggles and therefore may need extra help" with "they're such a drain on the system, and besides the billionaires and corporate suits need more tax cuts" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.

(This is fun)

Other examples include (these did not all happen to me and some details have been changed):
• “No, we can’t possibly allow you, student with [disability impacting navigation], to get access to your dorm a day early so you can learn the building layout when there aren’t 500+ students moving in.”

Me with my head on the second pass pages of the book, tongue stuck out

It tried to kill me but I have finished the book. Second pass pages read through, final copy and line edits done.

Please read my book. I worked very hard on it. 😭 (Also read Legendborn, as you can see from the background, I’m a fan)

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YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM announced; cover art reveal & submissions info! — tenebrous press Hey Ho, Tenebrous Cult! Hope you're as excited about this as we are: we're ready to announce submission details, and reveal the cover, of the next YOUR BODY volume. Mx Morgan G Robles crafted the ex...

YOUR BODY IS A FEVER DREAM: A Cosmic Horror Anthology by Trans & Gender Non Conforming Voices

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Still seeking slush readers & generous benefactors to help fund interior art.

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We are now OPEN for submissions for our first anthology! The vibe is wondrous sapphic specfic, and we want to see diversity. It's taken a lot of effort/fundraising to get to this point, but proud to say we offer professional rates. #booksky #submissions #writingcommunity #sapphic

But we can't fund graduate students over the summer.

If JK Rowling herself doesn't separate her art from her transphobia, and has said she sees every Harry Potter fan as a fan of her transphobia, and uses every dollar she makes to fund transphobia, I need people to stop insisting they "separate art from artist" because it's beyond disingenuous atp

I was a donor for my niece’s Deb Ball and they weren’t giving program books. My bestie saw me about to clown so she found me one. Do not QR code me at something I paid a lot to attend. I needed a BOOK.

Bluesky settings screen showing option to require alt text before posting.

About 100 #ArtAdeventCalendar posts already and close to 95% have AltText. Let's keep that up.

Make it easy on yourself and go to Settings and enable Require Alt Text.

It's not "required" because you can do whatever but if you're not using it, you'll find far fewer people share your work.

This is very good. I like to remind people that headlines in the 80s would (regularly!) talk about people who drank lattes or ate sushi as exotic, self-indulgent yuppies with obscure tastes. Media constantly made fun of “haute cuisine” meals with tiny portions because fine dining was bad.

I will provide commentary: fuck

Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria – autchat Where: Twitter’s #AutChat hashtag. Questions posted by @autchatmod. When:> Sun. April 18, 1pm PDT / 4pm EDT / 9pm UTC/BST. Rejection Sensitivity and Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria can refer to hypers...

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AutChat on BlueSky in 1 hr, Sun 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern / 21:00 UTC /9pm GMT. Topic: rejection sensitivity dysphoria. autchat.com/rejection-se...

Another thought: nowhere in my PhD education did anyone ever teach me how to do a good peer review. I think many reviewers lack the skill. It should be formally taught.

Riding the Autism Bicycle to Retraction Town Does anyone *really* know their Factor Fexcectorn?

On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪

Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

I keep getting these people! It doesn’t matter how clear I am or which words I use. If I say it’s wrong to screen #autistic people out of the gene pool, some parent WILL jump in to tell me about their benighted child who they apparently wish didn’t exist.

I see so many autistic humans afraid to name a need because they’ve only ever encountered punishment for having one.

We don’t resist support - we resist the cost of asking.

#AutChat A2.2 - I think a lot of kids are told that some emotions are bad. "Don't cry", religious admonishments to "not be angry at another" and similar. Autistic people in particular I think can sometimes internalize this BS and think "My emotions are bad".

#AutChat is a tag for autistic people & "autistic cousins" (people with similar experiences due to hydrocephalus, cerebral palsy, ADHD, etc).

We welcome autistic/similar people whether formally diagnosed, self-diagnosed, or questioning/wondering if they are autistic/similar.

TBH most autism research is done by non-Autistic researchers who intentionally exclude Autistic people and consider us demanding to be treated like people a barrier to their work and repeatedly ask the wrong questions.

The right questions would be about our internal lives, first and foremost.

Alexithymia (emotional awareness) – autchat View transcript of past chats on this topic here: Apr 17, 2016, Apr 5, 2016, and Aug 26, 2018. Questions: This #autchat focuses on awareness of (or ability to describe) our own emotional states, inclu...

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The Autistic Self Advocacy Network and the Autism Science Foundation signing the same open letters about vaccination is an illustration of how dire the situation is in the US.

I was homeless and living in a shelter in 2019. I started writing and pitching stories from my shelter bunk. Was diagnosed Autistic and came up with the idea for COLOR TASTE TEXTURE. Had literary agents and my first Big5 publishing deal within 2 years from being homeless.

Houston police broke a family. Whitmire calls it a national model. | Editorial At the end of the day, a mother is still without her son tonight. A scared teen is still without his mom. For no good reason. Shouldn’t that be of concern to Houston's leaders?

I am begging everyone who is autistic or cares about autistic people 2boost this signal & hold authorities in Houston, TX accountable: Emmanuel Gonzales Garcia the autistic teen still being held in federal custody for No. Good. Reason. #AutisticTeenInCustody www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/edit...

new york magazine calling the first epstein victim to come forward a "tranny" and dismissing the complaint completely

in which defendant epstein discovered makeup and acted like exactly the chaser pedophile we know him to be now and the press simply called his victim insane

never forget how they reported on us

International Men's Day. Guys, check in on your friends; if you need help, ask, and, importantly, remember the version of masculinity you're being sold online and by many politicians isn't masculinity, it's cruelty. Last, there's nothing unmasculine about protecting your health.

"As he addressed Halligan, the judge declared he 'just wanted to make sure' that indictment had never been seen by the full grand jury.

"Halligan confirmed that it had not. She then sat down after speaking for less than a minute."

I've been told not to tell you, but I haven't been told not to tell you that I've been told not to tell you, so I'm going to tell you that.