Dr Chris Papadopoulos

🚨 It’s official – Voices of Neurodiversity: An Inclusive Encyclopaedia is OUT TODAY! 🧠📘💛 After years of research, writing, and collaboration, it’s finally here. Here’s what it’s all about 👇🧵

@SeanC012 Thanks Sean 🙂🙏

@chrispaps Congratulations, Chris! 🎉 🙌

My new website is now live: chrispaps.com 🚀🙂

@chrispaps @uniofbedsnews hopes his inclusive encyclopaedia will spark discussion and action, and Hazel Lim looks at addressing the stigma around autism in the Chinese community. @ChineseautismUK communitylivingmagazine.com/multiple-persp…

My resent books. Perfect Christmas presents 🙂 please share.

Great to be part of relaunching the Autism Westminster Commission with @BarrySheerman @EDalmayne and others

Delighted to launch our new @lagcharity scheme 'Autistic Workplace Support Sessions'. Looking forward to supporting the employment needs of our fantastic autistic community who are horribly discriminated against in employment, both when seeking posts and when in post

Fantastic magazine and community 👇

@AussieShyGirl17 Better social knowledge (teachers, parents, clinicians now recognise autism), broader diagnostic criteria (DSM & ICD changes mean more people are included) and less stigma (people are now more willing to seek a diagnosis or self-identity than in the past)

@chrispaps And how do you explain the massive increase. Clinicians advise parents to give their children and babies paracetamol for a fever following a vaccination. Multiple vaccine combinations are more likely to cause a fever.

Autism isn’t “caused” by paracetamol. Or vaccines. Or diets. It’s not something to prevent or cure. It’s a natural neurotype. An identity. Wild and tragic that it's 2025 and we're STILL having this debate

Please share 🙏 @lagcharity @AIMautistic @milton_damian @CarrieGrant1 @Autism_Knight @gurchrandhawa @DrAmyPearson @jo3grace @RoaringNurse @KieranRose7 @EDalmayne @SarahMarieOB

This feels especially relevant right now with the release of GPT-5 and the sudden disappearance of GPT-4o’s more ‘companion-like’ personality. Autistic people (and others) are deeply affected when AI companionship shifts overnight. This raises urgent ethical questions

My new article is out! 📢 'The Use of AI Chatbots for Autistic People: A Double-Edged Sword of Digital Support and Companionship' AI ‘friends’ can offer acceptance & reduce loneliness for autistic people but they can also cause harm without safeguards doi.org/10.1177/275463…

@AIMautistic @lagcharity Thank you so much 🙏

📘 To get your copy: 🔗 Routledge (20% off with code 25AFLY3): shorturl.at/CuMf8 🔗 Amazon: shorturl.at/nXRP7 In paperback, eBook, & hardback. Please share💛 @routledgebooks @milton_damian @CarrieGrant1 @DrAmyPearson @jo3grace @AIMautistic @KieranRose7 @cityalan

If you don’t know, Voices of Neurodiversity is an inclusive encyclopaedia with >380 terms related to autism and all things neurodiversity. But it includes powerful and personal first-person stories from 12 amazing contributors from around the world that give the terms extra focus

A huge thank you to everyone who came to the 'Voices of Neurodiversity' book launch yesterday or sent their support. It meant the world. The turnout, energy, and warmth in the room were incredible - I’m genuinely humbled. Grateful beyond words! 💛📘

This is happening tomorrow (Friday 1st August) - please feel free to come along, it's an open invite :)

📚 Recently released: 'Voices of Neurodiversity'. This groundbreaking encyclopedia covers 7 key categories, featuring 60+ first-hand contributions from neurodivergent individuals worldwide. 👉 Find here: spr.ly/6016fzZ96 #Neurodiversity

@cjcrompton @lagcharity Thank you so much Catherine! 🙌🙏 Hope you enjoy it and find it useful

🚨BOOK LAUNCH EVENT🚨 Join me on Friday 1st August (4:15-6:45pm) in Old Street for the launch of Voices of Neurodiversity: An Inclusive Encyclopaedia🙂 🖊️ Signed copies (limited quantity) 💷 All proceeds go to @lagcharity 📍 Vibast Community Centre, EC1V 9NH 📚 Drop in any time!