💉 Large Danish Study: No link between vaccines and autism or 49 other health conditions

“Our results are reassuring. By analyzing data from more than one million Danish children, we found absolutely no indication that the very small amount of aluminum used in the childhood vaccination program increases the risk of 50 different health outcomes during childhood,”

https://en.ssi.dk/news/news/2025/large-danish-study-no-link-between-vaccines-and-autism-or-49-other-health-conditions

#autism #vaccines #science

Let me remind you: This administration is already deporting U.S. citizens. Already sending people to death camps in El Salvador , with Rwanda up next. Already going after the weak, the marginalized, the voiceless.

What makes you think they’ll stop before they come for autistic children? #Autism#Trump#Fascism

https://www.weathered.pub/first-they-registered-the-autistic/

Let me remind you: This administration is already deporting U.S. citizens. Already sending people to death camps in El Salvador , with Rwanda up next. Already going after the weak, the marginalized, the voiceless.

What makes you think they’ll stop before they come for autistic children? #Autism#Trump#Fascism

https://www.weathered.pub/first-they-registered-the-autistic/

I've been gone because of uni, sorry guys.

Good news is, I got permission from my supervisor to conduct interviews for my Master's study in English as well, so sharing this here and on my other socials. I would really like to hear you guys' stories!

Please boost for further reach aaaa

#ActuallyAutistic #autism #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #study #science #pleaseboost

I've been gone because of uni, sorry guys.

Good news is, I got permission from my supervisor to conduct interviews for my Master's study in English as well, so sharing this here and on my other socials. I would really like to hear you guys' stories!

Please boost for further reach aaaa

#ActuallyAutistic #autism #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #study #science #pleaseboost

I've just read that when people are hypervigilant, receiving more information is reassuring to them.

While, if people are not particularly vigilant, they find receiving more information on a topic unsettling, even anxiety-provoking 😳

#Autism#Neurodivergent#AskingAutistics

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About 2 years ago, I was told by a doctor I'm on the #Autism spectrum. My whole life, I've been eating poorly because I have a problem with textures. Generally anything wet/soft that has to be eaten with a fork makes me gag. One time I tried to force myself to get past it by eating those things anyway. Rather than making the problem better, it got worse. Is this an autism thing? How did you get past it? I forgot something important tonight, so I figure it's time for a fix before it gets worse.

Ok so I know that my baseline is anxious and hypervigilant.

Which makes me wonder now... could my tendency to want as much data as possible be connected with my baseline of hypervigilance?

While, perhaps, non-autistics feel generally quite secure... and prefer to leave it at that?

🤔

#Autism#Neurodivergent#AskingAutistics

Ref: Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow by Daniel Kahneman, chapter 13, on availability, emotion, and risk.

I've just read that when people are hypervigilant, receiving more information is reassuring to them.

While, if people are not particularly vigilant, they find receiving more information on a topic unsettling, even anxiety-provoking 😳

#Autism#Neurodivergent#AskingAutistics

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There is always a price.

I suppose that this is as close to being a truism as anything. Every act comes with a price tag, for, I'm going to guess, everybody. Even if it's just the effort required to do the task. What does my head in, is how much more autistics (and others, I'm aware) seem to have to pay. It's why we talk so much about "spoons", or energy levels, or indeed the myriad other ways we have to describe how draining existence is and how important it is to monitor this. Because we know how quickly we can drain ourselves and hard it can be, at times, to replenish ourselves.

What doesn't help is that so often even the easiest task requires a level of planning and micromanagement that would horrify most people in your life, if they could ever understand our need to do it. But how do you explain that you have to plan everything ahead in order to be able to even be able to do it? That even the simplest task has to be battle planned to the last detail in order to be completed. The timing, the preparation, the steps to completion. The process to go through, to even start it. Not to mention the planning and thought and effort that has to go into anything more complex.

And then afterwards the price comes due, for all that work and the stress and anxiety that often surrounds it and we're left again with the thought of, was it worth it? And the knowledge that it never ends and never gets easier.

This slightly venty post was brought to you by me having a paying the piper day, for the work I had done last week and all the weeks of work that led up to it.

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic

I am starting to realise that all this time, trainspotting was just a code-hobby for Autistic people to form clandestine self-help / revolutionary groups, with flasks of tea, sammiches and sturdy raincoats.

#UK#Autism#Trains#Trainspotting#Tea#Thermos#MindTheGap#Sandwich#Therapy#Revolution

Jeudi dernier, j'ai eu un rdv avec une personne de Défense mobilité, qui s'occupe d'aider les conjoint.e.s à trouver du travail. Il a vu mon CV, et ne comprend pas pourquoi je ne passe pas les filtres ATS.

L'une de ses conseils était d'avoir encore plus de contacts sur LinkedIn, et de rechercher des chargé.e.s de recrutement dans les boîtes qui m'intéressent. J'essaie de faire ça ce matin, mais j'aimerais bien savoir pourquoi rien que demander à suivre des personnes, puis me dire qu'il faudra que je les contacte pour des candidatures spontanées me fait avoir des palpitations de stress. C'est même pas les appeler, bon sang !

#actuallyAutisticFR #autism

｢ Irwin, a 30-year-old man on the #autism spectrum who had no previous diagnoses of mental illness, had asked #ChatGPT to find flaws with his amateur theory on faster-than-light travel. He became convinced he had made a stunning scientific breakthrough. When Irwin questioned the chatbot’s validation of his ideas, the bot encouraged him, telling him his theory was sound. And when Irwin showed signs of psychological distress, ChatGPT assured him he was fine ｣

https://archive.ph/hEwNs

Bro Radio have been celebrating Asda worker, Howard, who a Barry shopper says brightens her day with kindness.

Read about Howard's kindness and the difference it made to an autistic boy: https://www.broradio.fm/news/local/kindness-of-a-barry-supermarket-worker-highlighted-for-all-to-see/ .

@wales

#Autism#Kindness#GoodNews
https://www.broradio.fm/news/local/kindness-of-a-barry-supermarket-worker-highlighted-for-all-to-see/

Bro Radio have been celebrating Asda worker, Howard, who a Barry shopper says brightens her day with kindness.

Read about Howard's kindness and the difference it made to an autistic boy: https://www.broradio.fm/news/local/kindness-of-a-barry-supermarket-worker-highlighted-for-all-to-see/ .

@wales

#Autism#Kindness#GoodNews
https://www.broradio.fm/news/local/kindness-of-a-barry-supermarket-worker-highlighted-for-all-to-see/

Please sign this petition to #NZ Government asking them to create and implement a National #Autism Strategy for Education in #Aotearoa New Zealand, @co-designed with autistic people and their families, with the aim of ensuring that autistic learners receive equitable access to inclusive, safe, and affirming education across all settings.

https://petitions.parliament.nz/541e2359-ecd5-4719-798e-08ddbf868713

Please share the petition as widely as possible before 10 August 2025!

#AoNZPol#NZPol

Via @lin

Please sign this petition to #NZ Government asking them to create and implement a National #Autism Strategy for Education in #Aotearoa New Zealand, @co-designed with autistic people and their families, with the aim of ensuring that autistic learners receive equitable access to inclusive, safe, and affirming education across all settings.

https://petitions.parliament.nz/541e2359-ecd5-4719-798e-08ddbf868713

Please share the petition as widely as possible before 10 August 2025!

#AoNZPol#NZPol

Via @lin

Is autism self-diagnosis valid? Yep. 💜

Hey all, after reading dozens of research papers, and meta-analyses, and living through it, I made a thing!

I'd love it if you'd check it out! 🥰

https://codeberg.org/alicewatson/asd-self-dx/src/branch/main

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Update: I've added a lot of new stuff to the project.

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@actuallyautistic#ActuallyAutistic#Autism#ASD#Trans#SelfDiagnosis#SelfDX#SelfDxIsValid#Research#Codeberg