Nathan Keates

With the recent descent into despair, one might need to abandon the metaphorical ship and find respite. I may not be using Twitter going forwards, so find me @keatesresearch.bsky.social

Very proud to have been involved in this new paper, led by @AmandaT_ASC, highlighting how few mental health intervention studies measure quality of life as an outcome for autistic people, or involve autistic people in the design/delivery of the study 1/2

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

There are things more important than language, eg under Trump RJK Jr. would kill autistic & other ppl through promotion of dangerous "treatments" & opposition to vaccines, but ICYMI this is the anniversary of an autism language for professionals & public: captapnetwork.wordpress.com/2023/09/19/how…

“They need to know that non-speaking doesn’t mean non-thinking” with Luci Rose (4-Apr-24) #CRAEwebinar #archive youtube.com/watch?v=I3yOn7…

The paper to which we were referring is the following: doi.org/10.1007/s10803…

I wish to extend a huge thanks to PARC and specifically @Allison66746425 and @milton_damian. Both @Farradeh5 and I thoroughly enjoyed presenting at the workshop online session premiere... Premiere makes it sound fancier, so I've used that.

@Allison66746425 @milton_damian @Farradeh5 You are most welcome.

@KeatesResearch @milton_damian @Farradeh5 Thank you for being amazing presenters and for sharing the findings of your research. Thanks also for introducing IFL and PFL to my dictionary.

@DrAmyPearson @journalautism @WillClinPsy I agree - it’s wonderful to see older #Autistic people’s unmet #healthcare support needs getting more attention. This free to access paper includes a really useful table of participant quotes and recommendations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… #autism #ageing

Millions of mice killed yearly - why? Manager of largest funder for autism studies involving rodents, "when asked to give an example of a tangible quality of life improvement," paused. “I struggle to think of examples across all of psychiatry, frankly.” tinyurl.com/5fx32exw 1/

@AnnMemmott Honestly, I do not recall them explaining what they were suggesting by this.

At the online Salvesen Annual Lecture 2024 (@SMRCResearch) listening to @BorgSkoglund, a medical expert, so it's framed that way. The topic is ADHD and AuDHD girls and women. So far, we have heard that AuDHD makes you "more impaired"...

@milton_damian Not really. They were swinging between this medicalised narrative and noting the social consequences (my phrasing, they just mentioned coping, masking, etc.).

@KeatesResearch Social factors mentioned at all?

Very final call for participating in this study (you have until tomorrow!). If you're based in the UK and teach psychology at university, please complete our short survey about your practice: leedspsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3E…

Aging women were commented on with sustaining experiences as per before, but with some exacerbation from age related factors, e.g., loneliness.

Regarding young ND women (adolescents), the expression of "impairments of emotional instability" and related their experience of risk taking such as substance abuse or sexual risks. As for adults, apparently more "risk pregnancies".