Unceded Whadjuk Noongar Boodja
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Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
💚 Community participation isn't a luxury.
EAC has challenged the idea that mainstream services can simply replace disability-specific supports when funding is cut.
📣 Share your story:
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#ProtectOurNDIS #EveryAustralianCounts #NDIS
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Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
🚨 NDIS funding cuts are now in effect.
Relevant community participation funding is being reduced by 50%, and improved daily living skills by 10%. Some supports are excluded.
EAC has raised concerns about the impact.
📣 Share your story:
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#ProtectOurNDIS
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Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
🚨 The Guardian reports internal estimates show almost 145,000 Australians with autism could lose NDIS support by 2030 under the proposed reforms.
Read more: theguardian.com/australia-ne…
#ProtectOurNDIS #EveryAustralianCounts #NDIS
ALT Every Australian Counts graphic promoting a Guardian article. The headline reads: “Almost 145,000 Australians will lose support for autism under NDIS reforms, documents reveal.” The design includes the EAC logo, website address, silhouettes of campaigners and a Protect Our NDIS badge.
Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
My autism work is a mix of lived experience, clinical training and academic research. Sometimes it gets really personal. Pleased to contribute to the conversation about communication by nonspeaking autistic people, with a letter accepted in Autism Research
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Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
My son has end of school exams this week. He is dyspraxic & has a scribe. Nobody questions whether his answers are written by him. Nobody assumes his scribe is the author.
And just because a scribe could technically influence his marks, no one is calling for scribes to be banned!
No, non-speaking autistics who communicate via typing are not "a fraud" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… the real problem, which this letter ignores, is hyping & selling & imposing "assisted" typing methods on autistics, without any regard for whether autistics are being helped or harmed
Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
New paper
A tertiary hospital physician training program considered the impact of the ‘haunted curriculum’ on neurodivergent doctors in training. Co-production was used to improve workplace support.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/shar…
#MedEd #QualityImprovement
Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
"Is autism a disorder? Is it just a difference?" 🧐
Disability. The word you are almost certainly looking for is disability.
Autism is a disability.
Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
I’ve published a preprint on Autistic Shame. It’s not an easy read.
Shame is the hidden link between the stigma autistic people face & the mental health crisis in our community. This is my attempt to name it, trace it, & point toward how we can address it
osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/kn…
Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
"Standing by my sibling means being unapologetic about who he is."
Watch Percy Carter explain how she encourages the world to understand her brother. 📹👇
Percy is joining our #InternationalSiblingsDay webinar TOMORROW as a panelist! Register to hear more: buff.ly/bHDAeuw
Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
Natural causes, they always say.
But how was her communication upheld, so she could communicate pain? Did she have consistent staff, who could see changes in her? When was the last time she went to the doctor?
We expect more, @CoronersVic.
coronerscourt.vic.gov.au/sit…
Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
Word of the Day is a reminder of ‘snerdling’: 19th-century dialect for snuggling beneath the covers for as long as possible.
Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
Published today in the international journal of nursing
“Perhaps the most significant omission in the clinical and academic discourse on BPD is the failure to acknowledge that the diagnosis itself generates tremendous harm.”
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
💡“Neurodivergent people face distinctive challenges in healthcare, where environments, routines, & communication styles are often poorly attuned to their needs…Patients may be disbelieved or blamed, while clinicians…may resort to defensive practices”
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Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
Autistic Psychiatrists: Silenced by Shame. An Inter... by Dr. Mary Doherty
PsychiatryOnline Poster Library; May 17 2025; 4187845
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Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
Reality of autism
abc.net.au/news/2026-02-12/o…
Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
‘Anything but the phone!’: Communication mode preferences in the autism community: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful… #autism
Neurodivergent Dr retweeted
As an autistic person who sometimes needs extra time to process what other people have said and come up with a response, I am extra grateful for the forms of communication and situations where an instantaneous response is not required or expected.
