Fierce Autie
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Aviva Seigler is the executive director at Autistic Inclusive Meets the USA and a website editor for Autistic Inclusive Meets. She is a writer, an activist, and an advocate. Her hope is to bridge the gap between allies and autistics while fighting the pseudoscience that threatens all people, not just autistics.
Fierce Autie
1M ago
Both Ehlers Danlos syndrome and polycystic ovarian syndrome are both comorbidities with autism. What about the intersection of different comorbidities? There is plenty of research about what the likelihood in certain situations and certain conditions to have an autistic child but not enough on the intersection of different conditions and autism, especially when it comes ..read more
Fierce Autie
1M ago
Prevalence of Diagnosis Researchers have been tracking the rate of autism diagnosis since 2000. Its has been raising steadily since then. This triggered fears of an “epidemic” but most of the increase is triggered by growing awareness of autism and the changes to diagnostic criteria. The diagnosis does not have a test that can be ..read more
Fierce Autie
1M ago
Elon Musk’s startup company, Neuralink, developed a brain implant to try to interface the human brain like a computer or headphones. Its intention is connecting a brain to a computer to be as easy as LASIK surgery to “cure brain ailments and someday help humans compete with artificial intelligence.” Their goal is to have a ..read more
Fierce Autie
1M ago
The physical neurology of the autistic brain is very different than the allistic brain. Look as I analyze different studies and scientific sources on how different they are! This is a rabbit hole I can get lost in and be happy about it ..read more
Fierce Autie
1M ago
An organization that was born out of a partnership that spread the anti vaxxer movement ..read more
Fierce Autie
1M ago
Anna Kennedy has been ignoring abuse at her former school Baston School and threatened. autistic campaigner Emma Dalmayne. Kennedy is an anti-vaxxer and many other things. She has threatened Emma with court cases but she fails to understand, that I am in the United States. Anna Kennedy, if you are reading this, BRING IT ON ..read more
Fierce Autie
1M ago
This blog started as me debunking a study but the study was legit. The problem with it was that it used an intestine bacteria to try and use oxytocin as a treatment for autistic behavior by comparing mice tissue to human tissues. Autistics are not mice. How Mice Models Started When Dr. Jill Silverman graduated ..read more
Fierce Autie
1M ago
Autistic adults have been saying this for decades but science just caught up with this one. The rate of loneliness is significantly higher in autistic adults than non autistic adults. A study called “I’m Trying to Reach Out, I’m Trying to Find My People” was conducted at the University of Sussex by Dr. Gemma Williams ..read more
Fierce Autie
5M ago
Prevalence of Diagnosis Researchers have been tracking the rate of autism diagnosis since 2000. Its has been raising steadily since then. This triggered fears of an “epidemic” but most of the increase is triggered by growing awareness of autism and the changes to diagnostic criteria. The diagnosis does not have a test that can be ..read more
Fierce Autie
5M ago
The physical neurology of the autistic brain is very different than the allistic brain. Look as I analyze different studies and scientific sources on how different they are! This is a rabbit hole I can get lost in and be happy about it ..read more