Many of the traits you associate with autism, are actually caused by well meaning therapies, not autism itself. There's actual, studied, harm being done to the autistic despite good intentions. Let's discuss part of that. ? Autism Speaks' Electrifying Past https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXcegduzhdE ? Shocking people with autism, behavioral disorders stirs controversy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV5D2ZL0icM ? Why caregivers discontinue applied behavior analysis (ABA) and choose communication-based autism interventions https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/AIA-02-2019-0004/full/html ? How much compliance is too much compliance: Is long-term ABA therapy abuse? https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311908.2019.1641258 ? Prompt Dependency Beyond Childhood: Adults With Asperger's Syndrome and Intimate Relationships https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-relationships-research/article/abs/prompt-dependency-beyond-childhood-adults-with-aspergers-syndrome-and-intimate-relationships/290525E933D3282C555016221BE0757C ? Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/pkell7

We know the autistic respond differently, sometimes drastically so, to situations. But why is this? Is it that we don't know how we're supposed to respond? Or is there far more going on here? ? Fear Potentiated Startle in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Association With Anxiety Symptoms and Amygdala Volume https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.2460 ? Concordance between physiological arousal and emotion expression during fear in young children with autism spectrum disorders https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1362361318766439 ? Sexual Abuse of Children with Autism: Factors that Increase Risk and Interfere with Recognition of Abuse https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1058/1228 ? Behavioral Symptoms of Reported Abuse in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Inpatient Settings https://mmcri.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/04.-Brenner_Trauma.pdf ? Police launch probe into “horrific” abuse of patients by staff at care facility https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2329 ? Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/pkell7

What could fear, digestion, and allergies have to do with each other? They share a much more common origin than you might think. And they all are notably different in the autistic. ? The Role of Neurohypophyseal Hormones Vasopressin and Oxytocin in Neuropsychiatric Disorders https://www.eurekaselect.com/159946/article ? The dual-active histamine H3 receptor antagonist and acetylcholine esterase inhibitor E100 ameliorates stereotyped repetitive behavior and neuroinflammmation in sodium valproate induced autism in mice https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0009279719306829?via%3Dihub ? Epigenetic modification of the oxytocin receptor gene: implications for autism symptom severity and brain functional connectivity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41386-020-0610-6 ? Behavioral effects of multiple-dose oxytocin treatment in autism: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial with long-term follow-up https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s13229-020-0313-1.pdf ? Oxytocin Experiments Shed Light on Mechanisms Shaping Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviors in Non-human Mammals https://watermark.silverchair.com/icx091.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAApkwggKVBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggKGMIICggIBADCCAnsGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMq_48y0JsVblfk7dZAgEQgIICTJsFL6TLTTCs0oldJyBZa2swZWa9DW5OLXkvK7iWqTwxrr5yMMPaOiDVlESvixkv-ndFCSl78ZBbqFQQZ2A-0Y8btwK-yrJxQxWN4UiVj5DUzb1DAgXYTGKfo4hZfU5E_QOzuQ5XF1LiQcxpWCV5Ymubq705n2WVaFDCVummvj8nqjqRopOdnUcnyOdpgcYXRfRzbmuGByCmW5Ei4oU7U12rdssNnyqZ-rjaTJ6dt1233Riu4nHHJCWdOMIIXdC6oOVPXIlAeOK4OfkgJP7C9BQdKjDz0WuZgedDPfS-c5bcRodAhRo_VsWnGEcmQNuZRLqlhWbAxrLYW2HgYlvk_VT1_BwIgg4Y953MK4a2t1jJNkGaG9TktTvIc53ko2Ca9dHz_Lti0VHl72_2YWxsbkPheBB_L3Io4iuMYniilwo_6huGsZ1FDCUvCoGzOrdZxxh0IvhEHLKL9xtDGtJshO1vvJ5rvUlhbTNKj1BPGzk64aET5CPaP1TFgd5uVmO2J6KJg9LDd8w8LsxoI1p1-2zawUe34lAK6Gj0jGP1eb_fXIsL3uzce8hQqJ4JCgiFDGlEUi7btkwzPHRNzsGyIXor2IP_s83zb6YykoOySOUrPsbStlps2LjoAPO2bl3hkZiL_pZa9GIRBvZpi8Yzh15xr20BB8OiLOFQMiqgfGihAf6b-fqxQWox3KAP8lLKpsCSjZDewbVVIUhMftpBuUKouEtupv2aAi51gy-JgBHC2OdZt9ememtUa5vokS7yE24nwA_yr2bALR--rA ? Oxytocin increases anxiety to unpredictable threat https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2012156.pdf ? A review of the nonpressor and nonantidiuretic actions of the hormone vasopressin https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2015.00019/full ? Oxytocin biases eye-gaze to dynamic and static social images and the eyes of fearful faces: associations with trait autism https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-020-0830-x.pdf ? Dietary supplementation with partially hydrolyzed guar gum helps improve constipation and gut dysbiosis symptoms and behavioral irritability in children with autism spectrum disorder https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/95c6/f9afd9ee23970d21d22e9f1d1b4feda1ba9d.pdf?_ga=2.209260690.1819620674.1617470606-363190306.1581481832 ? Constipation Burden in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Emergency Department and Healthcare Use https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(18)30883-7/pdf ? Management of Constipation in Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorders https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/130/Supplement_2/S98.full.pdf ? The neuroendocrinology of the social brain https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091302209000417?via%3Dihub ? Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/pkell7

"Just act like everyone else to fit in" is common advice, and it sounds alright on paper. But it's some of the worst advice you could possibly give. Nevertheless, many autistics do it anyways. Why, and what consequences does it have? ? Autistic Girls Are We Gender Stereotyping Autism? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3ohpP5q3m0 ? Autism in girls - I was wrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAhQJ08bzgs ? Camouflaging in Autism https://kids.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frym.2019.00129 ? Sex/Gender Differences in Camouflaging in Children and Adolescents with Autism https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-020-04615-z ? The Female Autism Phenotype and Camouflaging: a Narrative Review https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40489-020-00197-9 ? Brief Report: Sex/Gender Differences in Symptomology and Camouflaging in Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-019-03998-y ? “Putting on My Best Normal”: Social Camouflaging in Adults with Autism Spectrum Conditions https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-017-3166-5 ? Social camouflaging in autism: Is it time to lose the mask? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1362361319878559 ? Is Camouflaging Autistic Traits Associated with Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviours? Expanding the Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide in an Undergraduate Student Sample https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10803-019-04323-3 ? Are autistic traits associated with suicidality? A test of the interpersonal‐psychological theory of suicide in a non‐clinical young adult sample https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aur.1828 ? Looking good but feeling bad: “Camouflaging” behaviors and mental health in women with autistic traits https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1362361320912147 ? Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/pkell7