🌟New paper!🌟

We* interviewed autistic adults about their thoughts on post-diagnostic peer support.

*with @SueReviews, @scrappapertiger, @Christine_McAul & Andy Stanfield

Read on for more info! ⬇️ 🧵

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… After an autism diagnosis in adulthood, there is often no support. This lack of post-diagnostic support has been highlighted by autistic people, their allies, clinicians & service providers – it can cause distress and reinforce feelings of social isolation & rejection.

Tea, blanket, and ready for the #INSAR2021 session on Global Insights on Understanding and Reducing Autism Stigma panel with @DrEilidh, @JacdenHouting, @DrMBotha, @DesiRJones & So Yoon Kim. I will do my best to live tweet this session! (Pls excuse typos and/or lack of clarity, I will do my best!) #INSAR2021

Our paper “Autistic peer to peer information transfer is highly effective” is out open-access @journalautism! I’m so excited!

We wanted to know if information transfer was different between autistic people, non-autistic people, and mixed groups.

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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13… Sharing information with other people relies on good communication. Lots of studies into autism & communication focus on how a single person performs on a social task, e.g. a theory of mind task. But communication involves more than one person, and is influenced by social context

It's an exciting milestone for the Diversity in Social Intelligence project today- we have just emailed a summary of our initial findings to our participants!

It's also available on dart.ed.ac.uk/research/nd-iq/

Here's a wee thread of what we've found so far & what we're planning... *Full disclaimer*: these results are from initial analysis, not yet peer-reviewed or published (i.e. might change after reviewer comments!) & also fully acknowledging the limitations of 240 characters...here goes!