Dr Emma Craddock

Being a Woman Is 100% Significant to My Experiences of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism: Exploring the Gendered Implications of an Adulthood Combined Autism and ADHD Diagnosis - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

#audhd #actually autistic #adhd women

Excited to be speaking about what it means to be an AuDHD woman on 19th January in Nottingham. Would love to connect with people there! Tickets available here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/audhd-women-…

Navigating residual diagnostic categories: The lived experiences of women diagnosed with autism and ADHD in adulthood journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… #AuDHD

Making the move to bluesky - emmacraddock. Please follow me there 🙏

@egillaspy Thank you! 🫶

Such a powerful research study on the impact of later life Autism/ADHD realisations for women! Video where Emma presents her research is here youtube.com/watch?v=5r_6BZ…

@NikkiNeve Thanks Chuck!

@EmmaCraddock89 Superb article Emma

Being a Woman Is 100% Significant to My Experiences of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism: Exploring the Gendered Implications of an Adulthood Combined Autism and ADHD Diagnosis - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

Policy design to implementation: Addressing the gaps in disability by Abi Chapman @accessify_uk a think tank that thinks and does. But we can't do it alone. We need a collective effort.

How incredible is this illustration by Abi Chapman @accessify_uk of my presentation about being an academic magpie + the neuro-normativity of academia. Excited to be part of #discreg Disability culture research group #ActuallyAutistic #audhd #adhd #autisticacademics

@NikkiNeve @OpenUniPress Love the new cover!

If you want students in Health, Education and Life Sciences to be a reflective professional give them my Second Education ☺️ Reading this will also ensure they understand how to receive guided reflection, especially important in these professions @OpenUniPress #reflection

@SueReviews Would love to chat about this both as a researcher and an AuDHD woman!

We’re looking for #AuDHD folks to join an online discussion to help us develop a grant proposal! If you have an autism + an ADHD diagnosis, or identify as both, or you’ve explored both come along and tell us what you think defines the #AuDHD experience! docs.google.com/document/d/1Bj…

@your_nd_coach Wow! Does Kilimanjaro have any animals on the route? 🤣

The women I trekked to base camp with have become really close friends of mine. The sweetest thing is currently going on...we're arranging to hike up Kilimanjaro together. How cool is that? I didn't think I'd make friends going to Everest Base Camp...in fact, I worried about it. But I've got some surprise new friends AND we might have another adventure. Kilimanjaro will be even higher up than base camp...but what a view at sunrise that will be.

@your_nd_coach ADHD and autism criteria are too focused on "symptoms" that are a problem to others rather than the presentation and challenges for the individual! E.g. sensory. Also autism is all about functionality and logic!

There is a sense in which most routines are "functional". This is because most humans - autistic or not - are mostly rational most of the time. As a species, we generally tend to do things that are easy, pleasant, helpful or useful. We generally tend towards not doing things that aren't. Plus, as a species, we tend to be quite effort and energy-conserving on the whole - especially when it comes to brain power. Thus, if someone, especially an autistic person who would not generally "waste" energy and effort when they don't have spoons to spare, is carrying out "a routine", you can bet your sweet life that it's almost certainly FUNCTIONAL FOR THEM. What diagnostic criteria like this mean is essentially, YOU would judge you wouldn't want or need to do it yourself OR you have not taken the time to work with the person in a way that would work for them to FIND OUT why they do it, and what it offers them. In fact, I'd go as far as to say there's a lack of...empathy...or a lack of an attempt to increase empathy and understanding on the part of the people who put these things together. And WE'RE the ones who supposedly can't empathise. Sighs in autistic special interests...

@your_nd_coach This is awesome! You need to hurry up and write it so I can read it 🤣 what self-compassion test did you use?

Tagging @EmmaCraddock89 as I know she will be super interested in this <3

I am almost at saturation with my autoethnographic practice diary. Yesterday, I happened to re-take a self-compassion scale that I'd happened to take a while back - neither of these actions intentionally connected with my research. My self-compassion scores have gone through the roof and into the "high" range. Shut the front bloody door! I never expected that at all. The beautiful thing is I can directly make the case that it was the actual autoethnographic process that generated this outcome, and the emotional experiences and how I handled them that came about due to the experience of doing the actual autoethnography. Wild. One of the things I will be writing about anyway is the pros and cons of autoethnography on issues close to one's heart/personal life when an autistic coach i.e. where could it help you and what might you need to avoid or mitigate to make this kind of research psychologically safe enough for you. Surely, I did find some useful pitfalls to be aware of, and will be writing that up. However, what I did not expect is that - as long as one is aware of what one is doing and knows what the journey can be like - autoethnography can be GOOD FOR YOU and even healing. I know that I won't necessarily be the first to note this, formally or informally, but it certainly isn't said a lot...and I'll be the first to note this in autistic coaching research. I am blown away. This is surely the stuff that good me-search is made of. I'd better write it all down while I've got a spoon to spare...

@your_nd_coach I remember referring to myself as an "academic magpie" to you! You might want to look at work on bricolage and the scavenger method. I will try to remember some names if I can. Interested to hear about your experience of autoethnography.

I never thought I'd say this but X/Twitter has been vital in the citational justice endeavours for my current research project, and in highlighting to me the most recent papers relevant to my project that are by, with and for autistic people. Thank you to all autistic researchers and sharers of research in my network here who share their work and the work of others. It has been invaluable. I look forward to citing as many of the sources I have had served to me as possible, and I will also be making comments about how this way of learning has become a specific part of my literature review process. Yes, next year you'll be able to cite "the magpie method" (Jackson, 2024, in preparation) if you need to!

@autismsupsoc Thank you!! This one has always frustrated me because if I have a cake surely I can eat that cake?!

Many Autistic people have trouble with the idiom: “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” It is really saying: “You can’t both save a whole cake for future consumption & also eat that same cake in it’s entirety now.” Or “You can’t have it both ways” #AutismAcceptance

@charliclement_ Congrats! Would love to read this

On academic success and 'failure' - some thoughts I put in our staff newsletter, which my boss was graceful to accept and support.

Thank you for my nomination 😀 #IAMBCUawards @BCUHELS @MyBCU @myBCUresearch