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Psychologist, part of Durham University Centre for Neurodiversity and Development. Sneaky Autist. Views own. She/her.
Apr 19, 2023 11 tweets 4 min read
New paper alert: Buckle up (pun intended) for something a little bit different from @DrSHodgetts and I on autistic people and...kink?!

A thread 🧵

liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/au… Now those who are familiar with my work know that most of what I do focusses on fairly bleak, but very important aspects of autistic experience, like interpersonal abuse and stigma.

This project was a bit of a palate cleanser & the opportunity to do something a bit different
Aug 25, 2021 12 tweets 3 min read
Ive seen a lot of excellent threads about eugenics and and @Spectrum_10K so Im not going to re-hash that.

What I am going to comment on is that idea that that quality of our outcomes are determined by our genes, a thread... (General CW for the rest) I'm seeing arguments that autistic sleep quality, anxiety, depression etc are largely driven by genetic factors. The problem with correlating genetic data with quality of life outcomes is that it ignores all that 'stuff' outside of our genetic material...