On autistic masking: interesting to look at it as 'autistic have something to lose when stopping to mask'. It might be part of their identity, a community, belonging.

I should write about eugenic, Lebensreform, neoliberalism, and how they are linked together, bringing us what we see

An extremist group will go after itself at some point.

On Uta Frith, its worth noting she's been doing this kind of thing for decades. In her 2008 book "Autism: A Very Short Introduction" she wrote that attempt to shift from a deficit to difference perspective is "peverse" and said that if you hold that perspective then the book is "not for you".

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New paper in @autisminadulthood.bsky.social exploring autistic adults embodied experiences of offline and online sociality.

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People like to write and speak about the symptoms way more than the underlying systemic issues.

Looking at autistic masking as subject to a condition gives more perspective.

<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library Background The placebo effect is established in clinical trials, but for paediatric research, questions remain about how to best manage its influence. Within the autism field, data on these issues i...

In an autism oxytocin RCT, what happened during the placebo lead-in?--results "provide evidence of the importance of placebo controlled randomised designs..." acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "providing an inert treatment can still result in substantial clinical improvement over time"

The wellness industry is not just a revamp of the Lebensreform. It's its continuation.

People are waking up on the pseudoscience health industrie?

As disable and neurodivergent, will not today. Neoliberalism doesn't allow what we are experiencing. It's part of it. It just came down to the poorer classes.

And here we are at the actual rhetoric about them. It's nothing new. It still is the same has the one at the beginning of neoliberalism. A return to nature will fix these people. If not, we have to convert them to produce. A worker at this time would not access the “natural trend”.

It took a century for neoliberalism to conquer. It implies how disable, and neurodivergent, are seen in research, and generally. As the general population assume they are not productive, they can't be individuals, and so forth can't take care of themselves. This means they aren't fully human.

With this vision, a whole new market opened. The upper class bough new “healthy” food products, new “natural” treatments, new vacation trends. All of this was part of the market, and hence capitalism. Then, economists took over it and applied it to the general economy.

Neoliberalism was first about the health of the upper class. How would human (bourgeoisie) be healthier in this industrial complex with the urbanization, the factories, etc. Many would look at Nature, making an interpretation of Darwinism. Here began a more individual take on human health.

I read many things about mental and physical health, research, pseudoscience, capitalism. One interesting thing is to locate the birth of neoliberalism in the second half of the 19th century, and in the health industry.

So it's still acceptable to publish some sort of craniometry in 2025. It says a lot about a field.

I wrote something about neoliberalism and closed the window. I lost it. :/

I see many autistics in messaging groups falling for neoliberal narratives around self responsability. Answers are collective. This individualistic narrative and view is one part of the issue.

It's a great video and conference. maybe people should begin with this when they look at neurodiversity.

I'm seeing more and more neurodiversity lite by people being against it. It's interesting how a similar trajectory is taken in neurodiversity as it was in the left.

I just saw the classic 1968 Basaglia work The Negated Institution has now, for the first time, been fully translated into English by @footymac.bsky.social. An incredibly important book in the history of critical approaches to psychiatry. And its open access!
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Something i didn't have time to say is: the standard liberal neurodiversity response of *actually theyre underdiagnosed, the increase is just us getting better at recognising neurodivergence, etc.* is a dead end here as it precisely depoliticises the issue and reifies and essentialises diagnosis.

After much careful reflection, my Twitter account has been closed. Whilst a shame to lose the potential reach of the 30,000 followers there, I have taken a path of greater safety. As ever, I am pottering about on other social media, where there is a somewhat better grasp of ethics and responsibility

That's a good view of it

Mental health outcomes associated with applied behavior analysis in a US national sample of privately insured autistic youth

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Could we stop using and providing pseudoscience, new-age, etc. with/to autistics? It's making things worse for them.

I will definitively listening to this while hiking tomorrow.

This is amazing! I just wanted a good book about autism and pregnancy. Thank you!