“I Learned How To Be More Autistic”: Experiences of Autistic-Centered Constellation Mentoring Peer mentoring is a common support service for autistic students in postsecondary education. This study explores the potential of peer mentoring as a space for autistic-centered connection and propose...

New Article! This one is EXTRA special, because it’s the first publication from my dissertation research. Hooray! 🎉 🎓 #ThisDiss #AcademicSky #ActuallyAutistic #AutisticsInAcademia

#AcademicBooks #Neuroaffirming #Neurodivergent #AutisticsInAcademia #NewBooksOutSoon

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Autistic Researcher Experience starts in October....I think I might just lie on the floor until then. (With the exception of the Lex of course!)

#autisticacademic #autisticsinacademia #phdlife #postdoc #postdoclife

The spectrum maybe diverse but it is unified.

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#autisticacademic #actuallyautistic #autisticsinacademia #autismawareness #autismacceptance #autisticidentity

& probably until 11:15 am to close it because I couldn't face the brain scrambling effect it has on me.

I then sat & tried to do it again....but I have not re-opened the form. This evening I will tell myself off for how unproductive my day has been.

#autisticexperience #autisticsinacademia

Rejected from a private foundation grant, co-authored paper submitted, what a day of lows and highs!
#AcademicChatter #PhDChat #AutisticsInAcademia

#AutisticsinAcademia was a rad hashtag over on Twitter and I really hope it makes it here so the wonderful Autistic Academic community there can translate here.

This was my first conference talk called ADHD: Socialised as Female. Incidentally it actually also ended up being my first #standup show.

Not sure I’m achieving enough in my first full week at work, but also so far I have battled snow to get up north, got lost a lot (all new buildings look the same on every level) and fought with lighting & IT systems. Hopefully exec function will be back next week! #AutisticsInAcademia #ADHDLife

It’s been a while since I started a new literature review. I forgot it always involves stumbling across a lot of papers that call people like me narcissistic loners with psychopathic traits... Any autistic/ND researchers currently lit reviewing & need a bit of a support group? #AutisticsInAcademia

The importance of Autistic-led training and research The struggle for Autistic trainers is common as non-Autistic individuals often take precedence. Organizations claim to support #AutismAwareness but refuse to pay Autistic individuals for their expe…

The importance of Autistic-led training and research

#AcademicSky #AutisticsInAcademia

autisticltd.co.uk/2024/04/16/t...

Front cover of the Palgrave handbook of research methods and ethics in neurodiversity studies edited by Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist and David Jackson-Perry. A royal blue cover with white text. An image of a giraffe with multicoloured patches rather than brown. A black and white zebra is walking past in the opposite direction facing the giraffe. There is a blue sky with white clouds and they are walking on dry grasslands which are brown and green.

A photograph of the first page of the chapter called co-developing an autism research funding application to facilitate ethical and participatory research: the autism from menstruation to menopause project.

It’s exciting to get a copy of a book you’ve contributed to in the post. The chapter is available open access here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

#AutRes #AutisticsInAcademia

Past me really needs to stop agreeing to give so many trainings 🙃
#PhDLife #AcademicSky #AutisticsInAcademia

I met another AuDHDer in an academic context today! We spotted each other in a crowded session, as #AutisticsInAcademia do. Sometimes I get tired of how much I need to disclose neurodiversity in the workplace (just to survive). Then I meet others & it’s worth it. And academia feels one person safer.

With upcoming PhD viva & nerve wracking talk for RCPsych NDPSIG to give next day, everything that reduces anxiety helps. As per Autistic SPACE framework, predictability is key. Thanks to @bikerlou.bsky.social for videoing access route to viva room as I can't visit in advance #AutisticsInAcademia

Taking Autistic researchers seriously The author’s experience as a neurodivergent research assistant at a UK university highlights challenges in navigating administrative processes exacerbated by Covid-19. Despite their qualifica…

I share my experience as a research assistant to highlight the ongoing issues in UK universities in supporting neurodivergent research assistants.

#AutisticsInAcademia #Research #Accessibility

autisticltd.co.uk/2024/11/24/t...

My thesis is entitled: Recognising the Belonging of People with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Through a Collaborative Explorarion of Identity. My defence was broadly successful, with a few edits I should be a Dr sometime in the new year

#phdlife #purplesockday #autisticsinacademia

No one told me how many times I'd have to log in, create passwords, and remember passwords for things for my PhD.

#AutisticsInAcademia #ADHD #WhereDidIWriteThatDown ?

I started an #AutisticsInAcademia tag back in 'the other place' and was wondering today whether I might do so here too...

I have just finished the paperwork for my interim PhD progress review. There was a new section this year asking us how much of the thesis has been drafted so far, so I added up what I've done and have 35,145 words! Not bad for the start of year 3. #PhDChat #AutisticsInAcademia #AutRes

I’ve wandered over here from the other (darker) place and I’m looking for some people to follow. Autistic autism researchers and neurodivergent researchers. Also trail and ultra runners. Comment with your fave accounts please! #AutisticsInAcademia #TrailRunning #UltraRunning

#AutisticsInAcademia

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A0: Hi, I'm Alyssa; I'm an Autistic graduate student in neuroscience! #AutChat #AutisticsInAcademia

A1: Hi y’all, I’m Alyssa, an Autistic graduate student in neuroscience. I wind up needing to educate my colleagues so I can access my degree, and also I p#do neurodiversity research sometimes. #AutChat #AutisticsInAcademia #DisabledInNeuro

#AutisticsInAcademia #AllAutistics

Looking forward to a @arisimpacts and @NSF *VIRTUAL* meeting about Broadening Participation for Persons with Disabilities in STEM today and tomorrow!
#AutisticsInAcademia #Neuroscience

A5: I'm definitely sticking around #AutisticsInAcademia, because 1) I am a that, and 2) I'm doing ND-relevant research at least some of the times. #AutChat

A5 (cont): It’s similarly fine to need breaks, or to decide NOT to research your own community, for whatever reason. (Or to do some research that’s community-relevant and some research that isn’t!) #AutChat #AutisticsInAcademia

A5: For autistic and similarly neurodivergent researchers, I want to make it clear that doing research on our own communities is HARD, in a lot of ways. On top of research being hard in general. It’s OK to think it’s hard.#AutChat #AutisticsInAcademia

A0: I'm Alyssa, an Autistic doctoral candidate in neuroscience.

#Academia involves a lot of demands and setting boundaries/saying no is basically needed to survive.

#AutChat #AcademicChatter #AutisticsInAcademia

A0: Alyssa, 26, grad student in neuroscience with semi-regular #AutisticsinAcademia related burnout experiences while I try to do too much like an academic... #AutChat