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(Let's pretend I managed to insert appropriately modest yet proud introductory statement): ta-da! #TalkingInPictures youtu.be/Rg62Fp6RUZs
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George Watts
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George Watts
@autgeek
Autistic self-advocate, PhD student, parent to autistic kids. Happily obsessed with all things autistic. They/she. Views my own.
Scotland Katılım Mart 2017
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@AutisticallySco , @autgeek and I just had the pleasure of spending time with our Young Leaders. What absolutely amazing Autistic young people! Feeing full of joy and hope now.
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I don't think we talk enough about the risks of getting older as an ADHDer...
Yes, I just got the zoomies and injured myself again. Where's my series of lectures on ADHD aging sponsored by Voltarol?
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Apologies for forgetting to add alt text. Image shows a screenshot of an email from Access to Work acknowledging the recipient needs to be contacted by email as a reasonable adjustment and then stating that they need to attend an appointment which can only be conducted by phone.
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Sent to a friend of mine. This is how accessible Access to Work is.
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Some big news! Now that everything is squared away I'm delighted to announce that I'll be joining @DurhamPsych for the remainder of my Fellowship and then as a lecturer long-term .
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Some of the love #Eccentrics Assemble show has brought into my life this @edfringe @freefringefest
It's ALL about the shows, not the success. That's a side effect of the fun & community. @autgeek lovely to catch up. ♥️♥️♥️
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New preprint! ▶️ osf.io/pt942
How successfully do observers guess the diagnostic status of people having conversations? Well… it depends on observer neurotype, if the conversations are same- or cross-neurotype, and if you’re judging from photos vs videos. 🧵
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@AngieBeatDown @Nishwishes There are lots of debates over what counts as ND. It might be worth mentioning that as well as OCD, trauma and anxiety are also extremely common in Autistic/ADHD folk and if people have a few known conditions it can often lead to diagnostic overshadowing so other conds are missed
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@autgeek @Nishwishes Hmm I was told ocd wasn’t ND as it’s a trauma response / anxiety
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Is there a feel you dislike?
OH thinks it’s very weird that I feel sick if I touch velvet or cotton wool
But disliking the feel of certain things is normal right ?
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@AngieBeatDown @Nishwishes You have OCD which is a form of neurodivergence and often overlaps with other ND conditions. Also a lot of your tweets seem to mention sensory issues.
Obviously I'm not saying you definitely have other condition(s) just that it seems more likely than it would for the average NT
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@emgntdivergence I'm not sure it's a tip that would be practical for many but it was a factor in my decision to move from Kent to Scotland!
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I wish people would learn to apply the same meaning rules and logic to the word neurodiversity as they do with biodiversity. Would you call hippos or marmosets biodiverse creatures? No? Then stop calling autism and ADHD neurodiverse conditions 😤
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We're not certain exactly where in the park we will be on Sunday. We're hoping to find a spot that works for as many as possible e.g. within sight of the play park but not too close if it's very busy. The best way to find us is to look out for our banner which looks like this.
AVATAR Borders@AVATARBorders
We’re very grateful to @ScottishAutism @rsmacdonaldct @SWANAutism, @ARGHighland @AMASEdin, @BordersTSI and @SOSEnterprise for all of their support to get to this stage where we’re able to host our first informal event! More information available here: facebook.com/avatarborders
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@AVATARBorders is a new charity which has been supported by Scottish Autism.
They are hosting an Autistic Pride Picnic this Sunday (23rd June) between 12pm-3pm, at Shedden Park in Kelso. Please see the tweet below for more info and join the celebrations! 🎉
AVATAR Borders@AVATARBorders
We’re very grateful to @ScottishAutism @rsmacdonaldct @SWANAutism, @ARGHighland @AMASEdin, @BordersTSI and @SOSEnterprise for all of their support to get to this stage where we’re able to host our first informal event! More information available here: facebook.com/avatarborders
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The first ever Scottish Borders Autistic Pride Picnic is happening this Sunday, if you're in the area do come and say hi, all welcome!
AVATAR Borders@AVATARBorders
We’re very grateful to @ScottishAutism @rsmacdonaldct @SWANAutism, @ARGHighland @AMASEdin, @BordersTSI and @SOSEnterprise for all of their support to get to this stage where we’re able to host our first informal event! More information available here: facebook.com/avatarborders
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One of the most important things I've learnt, and a theme that intersects almost all of my research, is that the ability to have and experience pride, in the face of how the neuromajority world talks about us, is in fact, the roots of an important resistence 💪
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George Watts retweetledi
We’re very grateful to @ScottishAutism @rsmacdonaldct @SWANAutism, @ARGHighland @AMASEdin, @BordersTSI and @SOSEnterprise for all of their support to get to this stage where we’re able to host our first informal event!
More information available here: facebook.com/avatarborders
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@heasutherland @SMRCResearch I'm really excited that there's data on this! Will it be published any time soon?
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@autgeek @SMRCResearch .../ I would suspect it's to do with autistic raters having *more* (movement/audio-based) cues they're using to guess than non-autistic? I.e. increased sensitivity at cost of reduced specificity, with the inverse for non-autistic raters.
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Belated, but I'm talking at #NDAS24 on whether the neurotype of person you're talking to impacts how well observers can identify *your* neurotype (spoiler: it does!), along with whether observer neurotype and stimulus type has impacts (spoiler: it's complicated). Come say hi!
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@heasutherland @SMRCResearch I was wondering if it might be about recognising a sense of 'otherness' that's not exclusively ND, for example someone presenting in any way that is less normative (e.g. a goth) might well make me more likely to consider that they might be ND
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@autgeek @SMRCResearch Not sure about other ND as I didn't collect data (good point tho bc reviewers might want this), but def no sexuality info (I'd be really surprised if that, independent of ND, gave false positives; if it did, that says sth really interesting about how autistic people are guessing)
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@heasutherland @SMRCResearch Was there any other demographic data? If we assume the AQ is reliable (this is me sidestepping that debate) so they definitely aren't autistic, my guess would be that false positives are more likely if the person in question is ND in other ways or queer?
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@autgeek @SMRCResearch The people in the stimuli did the AQ - I don't have individual AQ scores, but for the non-autistics they're in the mean/SD 11±5 sort of range, which I'd be extremely surprised to find an autistic person scoring in. (The autistics were, for reference, approx 35±6.)
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@heasutherland @SMRCResearch Fascinating! Was there a way to be sure the false positives were indeed false rather than people who were unidentified autistics? Really glad to see this sort of work being done!
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@autgeek @SMRCResearch I highlight "observer + immediate" because obviously watching a short video clip is very different to interacting with someone. I'd be curious about a version of this study based on interaction vs. observation... important clues maybe about how to identify autism... (4/4)
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