@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page"It's the only thing I can trust": Envisioning Large Language Model Use by Autistic Workers for Communication Assistance
JiWoong Jang, Sanika Moharana, Patrick Carrington, Andrew Begel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03297
@incurablehippie@verified.mastodonmedia.xyzI've just watched The Assembly on the BBC. It's gorgeous. A group of learning disabled, neurodivergent and autistic people interview Michael Sheen. They ask incredible questions, he's brilliant at relating to everybody there, and it's just wholesome. And funny.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI was just standing in the shower wondering what autistic kid Bill Watterson modeled Calvin after. Looks like I'm not the only one thinking this: https://www.reddit.com/r/FanTheories/comments/35i883/calvin_hobbes_calvin_is_autistic/<…
@mcdutchie@cybre.town“In general, I see autistic people being denied independence, or allowed their independence but denied much of what constitutes living.”
— @…, President of the European Council of Autistic People, writing on #IndependentLiving as an
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.pageNeurocomputational Phenotypes in Female and Male Autistic Individuals
Michelle McCleod, Sean Borneman, Evie Malaia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.04248 https:/…
@rebekka_m@fnordon.deA very interesting concept which explains a lot for me [and about some more distant family members]. And I [finally!] got the hang of #Monotropism!
Creating Autistic Suffering: The #AuDHD Burnout to Psychosis Cycle - A deeper look
@ferrous@neurodifferent.meScript of the video above:
"I think that flow states and similar times of total absorption can do a lot to help non-autistic people to make sense of #autistic experiences.
In the right environment, autistic people might enter this state of intense absorption many times on any given day – but few schools and workplaces are designed to accommodate that! It is also something that many parents and carers fail to understand, so autistic people are often wrenched out of their attention tunnels constantly – an experience that can be intensely unpleasant and disruptive, taking the place of something that could be relaxing and restorative.
Think of a time when you have almost finished a chapter of a riveting book, or a game was nearly over, and suddenly you were pulled away from it and expected to do something else entirely straight away, with no idea if or when you’ll be allowed to get back to what you were lost in. Now, imagine that happening to you several times a day, and everyone around you acts as if this is perfectly normal and no big deal! Nobody seems to understand the time it takes to shift gears, or the feeling of instability that follows from being jerked too quickly off of the track that you were on. Like many of the distressing experiences that autistic people have, this is made far worse by the failure of other people to recognise what’s happening.
#Flow states have been touted as the key to wellbeing for everyone – probably rightly, I think. They come with a sense of purpose and a kind of easy intensity that are both hard to match."
https://monotropism.org/wellbeing/
@paulbusch@mstdn.caThis Ford commercial on Twitter has high praise for strategies that are failing in practice: healthcare, housing, environment, education, etc.
But he fails to point out where his government excels - building wait lists. Need a family doctor, join a list. Need support for an autistic child, join 10s of thousands. Wait lists for surgery, complaining about landlord abuse, child care spots or public housing all have impressive growth rates.
@clongclongmoo@social.bau-ha.usDental Drill Slips
"Plays Away"
#CreativeCommons
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageBridging the Social & Technical Divide in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Applications for Autistic Adults
Lara J. Martin, Malathy Nagalakshmi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17730
@servelan@newsie.socialFatal Police Shooting of Autistic Boy in California Investigated
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-03-13/fatal-police-shooting-of-autistic-boy-in-california-investigated
@mcdutchie@cybre.town‘Spurred by new archival research and public comments by [Judy] Singer about trans people, a group of autistic academics and advocates argue that “#neurodiversity” should be credited to the early online #autistic community instead.’
@rebekka_m@fnordon.deWritten by Zack Budryk:
"[...] fictional representations of autistic women remain rare. Three recent examples in the mystery genre are helping to make up this gender gap and illustrating the range of the spectrum with very different but equally unforgettable female protagonists. In these stories, crucially, autism isn’t a superpower but a part of the protagonist’s personality that can frustrate her efforts as often as it can help point her to the truth."
@tanyakaroli@expressional.socialIn The Big Picture substack Amelia Mavis writes on her experience of life as an autistic person. I highly recommend reading (and sharing) it: https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkbigpicture/p/autis…
@Kencf618033@disabled.social•••Settling into my autistic identity is a very “Love me, love my dog” affair.
•••Second #OSB constitutional: Beer pong is the acme of Western civilization.
•••Pork heart chunks were popping in the microwave! 🐷 ❤️ 🦘
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeI wish more people talked about the double empathy problem
"Why are autistic people always misunderstood?"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QbH9pLqq5S8
@mcdutchie@cybre.town‘Spurred by new archival research and public comments by [Judy] Singer about trans people, a group of autistic academics and advocates argue that “#neurodiversity” should be credited to the early online #autistic community instead.’
@rebekka_m@fnordon.deWritten by Zack Budryk:
"[...] fictional representations of autistic women remain rare. Three recent examples in the mystery genre are helping to make up this gender gap and illustrating the range of the spectrum with very different but equally unforgettable female protagonists. In these stories, crucially, autism isn’t a superpower but a part of the protagonist’s personality that can frustrate her efforts as often as it can help point her to the truth."
@servelan@newsie.socialWhat it's like to be #Autistic? This is my sense of humor (plus dad jokes and puns).
@ferrous@neurodifferent.meText of the above video:
"Shutdowns are often the result of someone feeling so frustrated that they could melt down, but knowing that to do so would be even worse, but that they can avoid dealing with other people’s reactions to that if they manage to stay in control enough to do nothing but bottle it up.
Whichever way they go, meltdowns and shutdowns take a huge mental and physical toll, and require substantial recovery time. Some autistic people report feeling their after-effects for days afterwards, and in some cases losing abilities they previously had for even longer.
Autistic burnout is something like a long-term counterpart to a shutdown: the cumulative effects of pushing beyond your capacities for too long, usually because you don’t feel like you have much of a choice. Society demands that we carry on, however hard it is – often while insisting that it’s easy, and we’re surely just not really trying. At some point, we just… can’t, any more. We find ourselves perpetually exhausted, our cognitive abilities chronically impaired – often with heightened sensitivities and a reduced a ability to socialise."
From https://monotropism.org/wellbeing/
@Kencf618033@social.linux.pizzaTo the best of my knowledge the very word "autistic" first appeared in #PopCulture in Trots & Bonnie.
#ActuallyAutistic
#NationalLampoon
@Kencf618033@disabled.social•••Settling into my autistic identity is a very “Love me, love my dog” affair.
•••Second #OSB constitutional: Beer pong is the acme of Western civilization.
•••Pork heart chunks were popping in the microwave! 🐷 ❤️ 🦘
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukThis is by Christopher Hoggins. It's an illustration from his book "Roof-less" about his experience of being suddenly made homeless. More details on his blog here: https://christopherhogginsartist.wordpress.com/
@rebekka_m@fnordon.deThanks to the universe I'm such a high masking autistic that I can sprinkle the world with info about The 'Tism and am still being looked at suspiciously, even if it's friendly suspicion. That's ableism, I shall say.
I'm exhausted after such conversations with almost strangers [e.g. very recently the hearing aid acoustician [almost surely ADHDer] I got my tailored noise filter from] but will continue to do so - cause unicorns need exposure to be able to recognize ea…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageMusicTraces: A collaborative music and paint activity for autistic people
Valentin Bauer, Tommaso Padovano, Mattia Gianotti, Giacomo Caslini, Franca Garzotto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06043
@servelan@newsie.socialThat 'repetitive behavior' is frequently an autistic person's attempt to self-calm, not something that needs to be medicated away...not sure I'm ok with this.
Groundbreaking Study Reveals Autism’s Genetic Triggers and Therapeutic Hope @… #ActuallyAutistic
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeI have a son turning 18 tomorrow. He is #autistic, #aspie, #bipolar, and has #tourettes. It's a beautiful combination of conditions, but as you can imagine, it doesn't set him up for success in the social skills department.
Now he's turning 18 and has very few people turning up as his party. What can I do as a dad to help? There's the "fix it" side of me that wants to get creative on ways to get people to his party. But I don't know if that will make things worse.
I'd love to hear from others #neurdivergent and #actuallyautistic folks.
EDIT... Sorry I forgot to mention that my son has complained about how few people are coming. So I do know he wants more people.
@Xavier@infosec.exchangeI have a son turning 18 tomorrow. He is #autistic, #aspie, #bipolar, and has #tourettes. It's a beautiful combination of conditions, but as you can imagine, it doesn't set him up for success in the social skills department.
Now he's turning 18 and has very few people turning up as his party. What can I do as a dad to help? There's the "fix it" side of me that wants to get creative on ways to get people to his party. But I don't know if that will make things worse.
I'd love to hear from others #neurdivergent and #actuallyautistic folks.
EDIT... Sorry I forgot to mention that my son has complained about how few people are coming. So I do know he wants more people.
@ferrous@neurodifferent.meAnother short video extracted from my talk on Monotropism & Wellbeing and accompanied by #slomo clips of water: on the use of #flow states to help make sense of #autistic experiences.
Read, watch and/or hear the whole talk on the #Monotropism site. #TikTok link below.
#ActuallyAutistic @…
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeSGopab/
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.pageEffect of the social environment on olfaction and social skills in WT and mouse model of autism
Caroline GoraPRC, Ana DudasPRC, Lucas CourtPRC, Anil AnnamneediPRC, Ga\"elle LefortPRC, Thiago-Seike Picoreti-NakaharaPRC, Nicolas AzzopardiPRC, Adrien AcquistapacePRC, Anne-Lyse Lain\'ePRC, PRC, Anne-Charlotte TrouilletPRC, Lucile DrobecqPRC, Emmanuel PecnardPRC, Benoit PieguPRC, PRC, Pascale Cr\'epieuxPRC, PRC, Pablo ChameroPRC, Lucie P. PellissierPRC
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageLove, Joy, and Autism Robots: A Metareview and Provocatype
Andrew Hundt, Gabrielle Ohlson, Pieter Wolfert, Lux Miranda, Sophia Zhu, Katie Winkle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05098 <…
