A thread about who we are and what we’re doing:
We’re a group of researchers, creative practitioners and autistic people who are working together with autistic girls to explore less well documented autistic identities and experiences.
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Playing A/Part: Autistic Girls & Identities retweeted
Just look at this line up!!!🤩🤩🤩 We've got @JotLaw @eoinstephens59 @AutisticNW Hanna Davydenko – a Ukrainian refugee currently living in Ireland, @hetakaarina@autimodo Yael Clarke – an Autistic Developmental Psychologist in Australia, and WAIT there's too many for one tweet...
On International Women’s Day and every day, we believe it’s time to #BreakTheBias when it comes to understanding autistic women and girls!
Why not take another look at our animated short about the lived experiences of autistic teenaged girls? youtu.be/5E_0_FWWZTQ#IWD2022
Our next speaker is @cjcrompton speaking on: “It’s nice to have similar experiences that you can share and talk about, and click on a particular level” Autistic young people’s attitudes towards autism specific peer support in mainstream secondary education. #BeyondStereotypes
Our final session on Recognition today starts with a keynote from @JoanneLimburg , a writer, poet and Teaching Associate at Cambridge University who is going to be speaking on: The Autistic Alice or How I recognised the autistic girl in the looking glass #BeyondStereotypes
Our final keynote today is given by @mengchuanlai , a clinician and associate professor at @UofT and honorary visiting fellow at @Cambridge_Uni who will be speaking on: Recognising autism in women and girls: Lessons learnt and word to do #BeyondStereotypes
TW descriptions of false accusations of FII and other negative experiences with social services
Our first speaker this morning is @DanielleRudd12 an autistic PhD researcher who is going to talk on: Autistic Parents: Experiences of services and support #BeyondStereotypes
TW descriptions of false accusations of FII and other negative experiences with social services
Next we have @Shona_Mu an autistic PhD student who is going to be talking on: The pros and cons of autistic parenthood.
Next we have Ruth Moyse @mum2aspergirl an autistic researcher who is going to talk about reframing the narrative of autistic girls absent from mainstream schools. #BeyondStereotypes
Next we have @Stigmaphrenia_1 ,an autistic academic and @annettepfoster ,an autistic academic and artist, they are talking about the Farahar and Foster Three Dimensions Autistic Space Framework: Reconceptualising the spectrum to include all autistic people #BeyondStereotypes
Next up we have @SumitaUnjumbled (she/they), Sumita is an autistic creative and researcher and will be talking about psycho-education through exploring inner worlds. #BeyondStereotypes