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
My dissertation is also disability+communication, but it's Not About Me: brain computer interfaces for people with ALS.
Having all my research relate to autism would mean reading WAY too much dehumanizing autism research.
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Neurodivergence influences my interests, including in disability and communication.
Sometimes I do work related to my own neurodivergence, like communication supports for speaking autistic adults.
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/aut.2018.0007
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I'm interested in disability and communication, neurodiversity and representation, and the overlap of
neurodivergence and queerness.
Sometimes I use mouth words and sometimes I use typed words, because I can't always talk.
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Hi #DisabledInNeuro!
I'm Alyssa. I'm an Autistic doctoral candidate in interdisciplinary neuroscience at the University
of Rhode Island, and also a math teacher.
