"This study shows that autistic children placed in regular classrooms who experience peer exclusion are less likely to show prosocial behaviors like helping, sharing, or cooperating. This happens partly because peer exclusion drains their mental resources for self-control, making it harder to act kindly. The findings suggest that helping autistic children feel included and supporting their ability to control impulses may promote positive social behaviors." #autism #ASD #autistic #prosocial #behavior https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.70290

"Where a typical individual experiences the sharing of useful knowledge as a basic social reflex, the allistic subject appears to require an elaborate ritual before any information exchange can occur." 😂

https://dev.to/raphink/return-to-the-planet-of-the-autistics-447g

#Autism
#ADHD
#AuDHD
#neurodiversity
#neurodivergence

Return to the Planet of the Autistics

A field journal from an imaginary researcher studying a puzzling minority neurological condition called allism, which affects approximately 1% of the population.

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The hardest thing about autism hasn't been the autism.

What's been much more difficult are the sensory sensitivities, and the attitudes of people around me toward my differences, which created a lot of social anxiety. 1/2

#ActuallyAutistic #Autism #Autistic #Sensory #Anxiety

A couple of researchers are going to be doing a study "that would attempt to investigate the potential causal relationship between autism and cPTSD".

For information regarding this study, and explanations about who is welcome to participate, one of the researchers, Nicole Filippone, has made a Facebook post detailing everything. (You don't need a Facebook account to see it).

https://www.facebook.com/100057423730073/posts/pfbid03154PqLa3Xuv1wgkWhQmxBxgJS1Tw2yAEuVgxrEQ6XxymroQ7t19oYXGbGkpVPA6fl/

If you're interested and want to sign up to be notified about when the study will begin, you can go here: https://www.nicolefilipponeauthor.com/my-links

I have signed up myself, as I suspect I am autistic and definitely have cPTSD. Hopefully it will be insightful!

Please boost this so the study can get as many participants as possible!!

#Autism #Neurodivergent #CPTSD #MentalHealth #Study #Boost

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Salut, j'ai passé un dépistage TSA avec un psychologue y'a 2 semaines et j'aimerais bien savoir si c'est normal :

  • que mon dépistage n'ait duré que 2 heures (au total, je n'ai pas eu de rdv préliminaire ou quoi, je suis arrivée il m'a fait les tests direct et c'était fini au bout de 2h),
  • que je n'ai pas de rendez-vous de remise du résultat inclus (il faut que je paye si j'en veux un)
  • et que le rdv comprenait 3 partie : une anamnèse, des tests avec des clics sur un ordi et enfin une série de 10 petites histoires où je devais déterminer si l'un-e des personnages avait dit quelque chose de maladroit ou blessant.

Je n'ai pas passé de questionnaire à proprement parler pourtant dans mon compte-rendu j'ai des résultats de questionnaire et je comprends pas trop comment ils ont été rempli... À partir de mon anamnèse seulement ?

Le psychologue ne m'a pas dépisté de TSA du coup mais alexithymie + anxio-dépressive (je suis actuellement en dépression, duh, je l'ai dit en arrivant) et je suis pas satisfaite du résultat parce que y'a notamment une anxiété sociale très sévère que je vois pas d'où il la tire en sachant que celle là je l'ai taclée ces dernières années et que j'ai vraiment beaucoup moins d'anxiété sociale qu'avant. Mais aussi je trouve pas que tous mes symptômes puissent être expliqués par anxiété + alexithymie.

C'est le seul psychologue qui fait des dépistages TSA adulte et qui était disponible que j'ai trouvé et j'y ai laissé 350€ et je sais pas trop quoi en penser.
Merci pour vos retours 💙

#ActuallyAutisticFR #autism #TSA #Autisme

"The DSM defines autism by its observable symptoms: persistent deficits in social communication, restricted & repetitive behaviors. It's a checklist of what a clinician can see in a room, or what a patient can report about themselves. It describes the shadow, not the object."

https://dev.to/raphink/defining-autism-the-shadow-and-the-object-3ca7

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#neurodiversity
#neurodivergence

Defining Autism: The Shadow and the Object

The DSM defines autism by observable symptoms. But a definition and a diagnostic test are not the same thing. One bar has been cleared. The other hasn't. And mistaking the proxy for the definition has real consequences.

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In addition to #PTSD, my mostly useless first therapist suggested mild #autism. I am starting to suspect he might have had a point.

But also my younger son is basically me but more so (minus the PTSD so far) and I just realized many of the common indicators are much more present there.

And one difference would be that one of us has a lifetime of experience in what I have always thought of as "pretending to human" and the other hasn't had to (much, yet).

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Just having fun with inks as a way of processing some longstanding issues around identity.

#art #abstractart #autism #neurodiversity

“What I’m sketching here certainly isn’t definitive. It’s a model I’m workshopping, built from themes I’ve seen surface over and over, personally, clinically, and in community.

It most closely reflects late-identified and self-recognizing neurodivergent adults, especially those who spent years masking or passing as neurotypical.

It isn’t meant to speak for all Autistic people, particularly those with higher support needs, co-occurring intellectual disability, or whose identity was shaped by early diagnosis or institutional settings.“

https://neurodivergentinsights.com/the-neurodivergent-identity-arc/

#ActuallyAutistic #autism

The Stages of Neurodivergent Identity Development | NDI

Dr. Megan Anna Neff walks through a four-stage map of neurodivergent identity development and explains how our individual arcs are interconnected.

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It's Monday 06/15/2026. Hey What's Going On!

https://lemmy.world/post/48194069

It's Monday 06/15/2026. Hey What's Going On! - Lemmy.World

We are having a fun combination of Tornado season and World Cup games here in Kansas City. This post is for casual conversation if you don’t feel like making a post of your own.