@drjobillington
Autism researcher/lecturer at Uni of Reading. Co-founder of the Wellbeing Hub: https://bit.ly/4ewJP6t Personal account Interested in: #AutRes School experiences of autistic children Qual methods Equity & social justice Autistic flourishing & thriving
✨ We’re excited to kick off our 2026 Wellbeing Hub webinar series with Mike Karasinski - a neurodivergent mental health nurse and founder of NaDDs, a social group for neurodivergent men and dads
🗓 15 Jan, 7–8.30pm (Teams)
🔗https://bit.ly/4qctFGd
Oh, look. A load of coverage about a new government inquiry into "overdiagnosis" that completely blurs autism & mental illness, and ends up leaning into all those tropes about people making it all up.
Thrilled that @stephenunwin.bsky.social is speaking at our Dec Wellbeing Hub webinar. He will be discussing themes from his latest book, Beautiful Lives: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong.
📅4th Dec
⏲️7-8.30pm
🛜Online
💷Free
Book here: bit.ly/4ihEROI
#disabilityhistorymonth
Thrilled that @stephenunwin.bsky.social is speaking at our Dec Wellbeing Hub webinar. He will be discussing themes from his latest book, Beautiful Lives: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong.
📅4th Dec
⏲️7-8.30pm
🛜Online
💷Free
Book here: bit.ly/4ihEROI
#disabilityhistorymonth
No idea why the graphic accompanying this link doesn't match the title of the paper!
Umbrella review of systematic reviews published yesterday in the British Medical Journal shows no link between paracetamol and autism or ADHD
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Just discovered this neurodivergent bookshop - very cool!
And not just because it has our forthcoming book on neurodiversity-affirmative classrooms on their front page...
@drrachaeldavis.bsky.social @claruineill.bsky.social
makessensetome.co.uk
Zines, zines, zines.
I did a podcast chatting about the #ZELP project, emotional literacy and general #zine stuff. It was fun. I didn't rant *too* much.
The accompanying video that the podcaster made it super cool. 🩷
www.linkedin.com/posts/lucind...
Lovely to see this talk from the @craeioe.bsky.social webinar archive pop up on my feed.
The open access paper this talk is based on is published here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
If you replace the term “special educational needs” with “roughly 20% of all children in the education system” it immediately shows how nonsensical & unworkable these kinds of approaches are. There are no quick fixes. It’s all about embracing complexity, not reducing kids to a homogeneous mass.
But we DO know. There is strong, reliable evidence of no link. Same with autism and vaccines. There is no area of autism research that has been more thoroughly investigated.
This is essentially ableism and misogyny with some batshit anti-science conspiracy thrown in
Statement from AsIAm in response to Autism misinformation by the US Government.
Paracetamol (Tylenol) does not cause autism, and it is a source of great dismay that autism researchers and Autistic advocates still have to spend so much time battling misinformation.
Research on causes of autism systematically fails to control for the existence and behaviour of Autistic parents.
On Trump, autism and tylenol:
A student I was talking to today had it exactly right on this latest White House bullshit claim
“It’s at the perfect intersection of hating disabled people and wanting women to be in pain”
There’s not only no link, the claim is both ableist and misogynist.
Autism existed before Tylenol.
That’s all you need to know.
Hope you are looking after yourself, Monique. I can’t begin to imagine the toll that constantly defending the very right of autistic people to exist must take on you.
Yes! Brilliant to hear @drmbothapsych.bsky.social just now on Radio 4. Speaking truth to bullshit about the non-existent link between autism and paracetamol.
Thank you, Monique 👊
If you haven't already done so, do sign up for next week's #CRAEwebinar
Demystifying Emotion-Processing: Autism & Alexithymia with @connortkeating.bsky.social
Thur Oct 2nd 4pm bst
"I practice self-care by turning off the news periodically, and stepping back from the world. I made the realization that in my fight for justice, I was hurting my own mental health." Autistic academic TC Waisman on self-compassion and resilience, at TPGA:
thinkingautismguide.com/2025/09/cher...
Hurrah!
We can finally share the animations I have been working on with @thrivingautistic.bsky.social
First short film is: Discovering You're Autistic
Please do let us know what you think and share if you find valuable!
youtu.be/-eDv2omDMko?...
Text reads: Last minute opportunity to attend: Neurodivergent and Not Attending Thursday 18th 10:30am-2:30pm Lunch included. St Austell Conference Centre
TODAY - email kaypcc@outlook.com if you want to come. It's been fully booked for weeks but a group had to cancel late yesterday so we've space and food for you if you want to come!
Channel 4 to mark Trump's state visit by dissecting more than 100 of his lies, in what the channel describes as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”.
This is such an important point. If you’ve spent much of your life being invalidated, how do you develop the self-understanding and self-worth to self-advocate?
It was a fantastic presentation. Both moving and compelling.
So my keynote at #AECongress25 involved a lot of memes to illustrate my points about how to understand and apply the neurodiversity paradigm.
The focus is on LIBERATION from OPPRESSIVE systems and beliefs.
This will work best, I believe, when we COLLECTIVISE our action.
Here we go…
Me too! Yesterday was really uncomfortable in so many ways
Photo of Emmie delivering her talk on the stage
Absolutely kick-ass talk from Emmie Fisher on the school experiences of autistic children.
Rigorous findings beautifully presented, and a long overdue call to action!
#AEC2025
I’ll look for you, or we could arrange a time and place to meet. Whatever works for you.
I hope to see you, Jon. Happy to listen if talking things through could help.
Interesting to note the references to “the autistic community” in the opening addresses from politicians
I wonder if they are aware of the reductive connotations of that phrase?
It stands in contrast to the emphasis on individuality in Harald Neerland’s speech
#AEC2025 #AutismCongress2025