Hello! I was excited to discover research on post-traumatic growth, or ways that some individuals experience personal growth and positive change after trauma. I'm especially interested research on facilitating better healing and growth for people who have experienced trauma, and ways to adapt supports so that autistic and neurodivergent individuals in particular can experience such healing.

This video is based on the post-traumatic growth inventory: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8827649/

Timestamps:

00:00-1:00- Introduction

1:00-12:10- Overview of Post-Traumatic Growth

12:10-15:40- Application to autistic individuals

#autism #neurodiversity #ptsd #growth #healing #psychosis #trauma #neurodivergent #recovery #posttraumaticgrowth #posttraumaticstress

Hello! This video is on the diversity of communication styles and needs within the autistic community-- for example, blunt feedback versus feedback sensitivity, preference for punctuality versus need for flexibility, and different access needs related to the content or frequency of interactions! Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and I would greatly welcome any thoughts or feedback that anyone has on this topic!

Timestamps:

0:00-2:20: Introduction

2:20- 10:32: Bluntness vs. sensitivity

10:33- 15:12: Punctuality versus flexibility

15:13- 19:46: Info-dumping, emotional support, and other topics

#accessibility #disability #autism #diversity #neurodivergent #autistic #accessneeds #conflictingaccessneeds #neurodiversity #communication #communicationstyles

Hello! Have you ever wondered what artificial intelligence thinks of autistic people (or, at least, what kind of correlations it makes between autism and other words)? I'm very excited to share this video, as well as a brief overview of some of our recent research results. Our research paper is available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.3094

Other references:

1.) Disability and Personality Tests: https://cdt.org/insights/report-algorithm-driven-hiring-tools-innovative-recruitment-or-expedited-disability-discrimination/

2.) Article on Amazon's resume scanner: https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1MK0AG/

3.) Article by Robyn Speer on Conceptnet and unwanted bias: https://blog.conceptnet.io/posts/2017/conceptnet-numberbatch-17-04-better-less-stereotyped-word-vectors/

Timestamps:

00:00-3:52- Other examples of AI bias

3:53-14:20 - Our research on AI bias and neurodivergence

14:21-20:07- Autism and personality tests for hiring

#autism #neurodivergent #artificialintelligence #neurodiversity #mentalhealth #biases #autismresearch

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to interview my friend Jackie about her life! Some of the specific topics we discussed were realizing that she was autistic later in life, parenting and encouraging self-advocacy in her child who is autistic and has intellectual disabilities, and vulnerability in Black autistic women.

0:00-9:14: Realizing that she is autistic later in life

9:15- 17:56: Joyful moments in parenting

17:57- 22:59: Promoting self-advocacy in children with intellectual disabilities

23:00- 36:47: Advice to parents navigating the IEP process

36:48- 50:58: Vulnerability in Black autistic women

Our donation link-- https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G26GHC3U8VCYE

#neurodivergent #autism #autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergentparent #autismparenting #acuallyautistic #autisticwomen #intellectualdisabilities #disability #disabilitypride #gentleparenting

I’ve been fascinated by surveys and questionnaires, and specifically how these can often be confusing for autistic people– so I was thrilled to recently come across a 2020 study dedicated to survey construction and accessible surveys! This video gives some thoughts on survey construction and specific examples of adapted tools.

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32355908/

2. https://sites.google.com/view/mentalhealthinautism/resources/tools

0:00-2:35: Introduction

2:36-4:38: Survey anxiety

4:39-6:45: Question wording and hotlinks

6:46- 9:25: "Always" vs "never"

9:26- 11:30: Plain language and memory

11:31-18:26: The pain scale, adapted depression screenings, and other examples

Our donation link-- https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=G26GHC3U8VCYE

#autism #autistic #mentalhealth #mentalhealthscreening #surveys #education #therapy #clinicians #diagnosis

Hello! Thank you so much for watching this video on OCD, strengths of individuals with purely obsessive OCD, potential connections between purely obsessive OCD and autism, and unique therapy considerations! Some other links with interesting information about purely obsessive OCD include:

1.) https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/31/pure-ocd-the-naked-truth

2.) https://iocdf.org/expert-opinions/ineffective-and-potentially-harmful-psychological-interventions-for-obsessive-compulsive-disorder/

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#ocd #obsessivecompulsivedisorder #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #therapy #autismandocd

Thank you so much for watching this video! Links to learn more:

1. Reversing behavioral abnormalities in mice exposed to maternal inflammation. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5796433/

2. Behaviors associated with fever in children with autism spectrum disorders. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18055656/

3. Children with autism spectrum disorder who improve with fever: Insights from the Simons Simplex Collection. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aur.1856

4. https://newatlas.com/medical/immune-mechanism-fever-autism-symptoms/

5.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0924977X15001923

Timestamps:

00:00-1:55: Intro and personal experience

1:55-9:25: Research

9:26-14:41: What causes the fever effect?

#autism #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #fever #fevers #infection #autistic #actuallyautistic

This video discusses neurodiversity affirming childcare, with an emphasis on specific examples that might be relevant to babysitters and other childcare providers working with autistic children, children with sensory processing differences, and children with PDA (pervasive demand for autonomy) profile of autism.

#autism #neurodivergent #neurodivergentparent #autismparenting #childcare #babysitting #parenting #pathologicaldemandavoidance #pervasivedemandforautonomy #sensoryprocessing #neurodivergent #neurodiversity

My friend kindly agreed to share her experience on life with paranoid personality disorder (PPD). We discuss her experience with PPD, her advice for doctors and family of someone with PPD, and her advice for people who have recently been told they have PPD.

#neurodivergent #psychosis #paranoidpersonalitydisorder #interview #interviews #mentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters

For a few years, I've been very curious about neurotypical communication as well as how (and to what extent) neurotypical individuals consciously think of their communication preferences, preference for routine, emotional regulation, etc.

Many of the points raised in this video will vary from person to person, and in several cases may depend on other aspects of a person's identity or experience as well (i.e. may not apply to all people who consider themselves neurotypical).

This video is primarily made through an autistic lens, although it aims to incorporate some discussion of neurodiversity more broadly, and is geared towards discussing and understanding neurotypical communication.

#autism #neurotypical #neurodivergent #neurodiversity #communicationdifferences #mentalhealth #interpersonal