“[…] Dear Dame #UtaFrith, and all other like-minded people, that’s how big it is. This is a genie that you will not be able to stuff back in the bottle. It seems sometimes that you have all the power. You don’t.”
– Heta Pukki, President of the European Council of Autistic People

Click: https://eucap.eu/the-meaning-of-the-spectrum/

#EUCAP #autism #autismspectrum #ActuallyAutistic #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #neurodiverse #ProfoundAutism

#Autism #UtaFrith #Education #Research #ActuallyAutistic

https://autisticallysarah.com/2026/03/14/the-inaccuracies-and-disregard-of-autistic-insights-in-the-uta-frith-article/

„Das Autismus-Spektrum ist gescheitert“

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theoblog.de/das-autismus-spektrum-ist-gescheitert/47436/

Replying to Uta Frith's views, one by one.

With thanks to all the members of the autistic community who've informed me & inspired me to write this thread.

For those lucky not to know about her article in The Times, and various other related statements, links at the end.

CW: it's upsetting 😟

A thread 🧵

#UtaFrith #Research #Autism #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #Neurodivergent

Responding to Psychologist Uta Frith: Autism Can’t Be Quantified, and That’s OK

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://thinkingautismguide.com/2026/03/responding-to-psychologist-uta-frith-autism-cant-be-quantified.html

This article is interesting but probably too vague for the casual reader (myself) to draw any insight from.

They list young diagnosis as before 6 and late diagnosis as after 10, and not after 50 for instance. I know that is in keeping with the science but I can't draw any information from this that pertains to myself. Who knows whether I would have been diagnosed young or not, had I been born recently.

Also, if you read through to the research in "Nature" the details seem even less worthy of a headline.

And this quote smells a lot like bullhuckey, even though the Professor is clearly one of the big, good eggs, so I wonder if it is taken out of context: “It is time to realise that ‘autism’ has become a ragbag of different conditions.” - Prof. Uta Frith

I will be interested to hear the #actuallyautistic scientists offering their opinions.

#actuallyautistic #utafrith #autism

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/oct/01/autism-should-not-be-seen-as-single-condition-with-one-cause-say-scientists?CMP=share_btn_url