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Autistic Anthropologist

Hello! I have an account elsewhere on the fediverse but will be posting about academic things and my current research project here at scholar.social

I'm an undergrad anthropology major in the U.S. South and I'm currently working on my honors thesis project

It consists of a survey about neurodiversity and the importance of online communities, and I will be sharing it from this account very soon! I'll also be posting updates about it and other research I do

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Autistic Anthropologist

Survey about Neurodiversity and Online Communities :BoostOkay: 

I am an student researching , disabled self-advocacy and online communities. If you are neurodivergent and want to talk about your experiences in online communities, consider filling out this survey!

msstate.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/

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Autistic Anthropologist

I support neurodivergent self-diagnosis 

Oh i guess I haven't made this clear on this account

But you 100% don't need a diagnosis to be neurodivergent

I'm self-diagnosed as autistic and I don't plan to seek an "official" diagnosis anytime soon

I find the idea of neurodiversity and the neurodivergent community liberating because it is about celebrating and connecting based on our experiences, not on the diagnostic criteria put together by people who think we are broken

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Autistic Anthropologist

I feel like this is tricky because for some reason both online communities and disability are extremely unexplored in anthropology, in my experience. But I do like the way that anthropology seems to focus more on qualitative research.

Also my searches just keep bring up online schools which isn't exactly what I'm looking for

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I am wondering if anyone knows of good grad school programs in the social sciences (esp. anthropology) that might focus on online communities and/or disability/neurodiversity

I am mostly interested in qualitative research.

I figured y'all might have some good places to start looking

Thanks!

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Alexis

Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) from a dog trainer's perspective, neuroclastic.com article 

From 2019: "Is ABA Really “Dog Training for Children”? A Professional Dog Trainer Weighs In."

neuroclastic.com/2019/03/27/is

TL;DR: "I would never treat a dog that way."

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social media community stuff 

@autistic_anthropologist 2/2 It has a few separate branches of responses, you can see a few more of them here, though be warned that some of the posts in the tag talk about csa / radfems freedom-of-fanfic.tumblr.com/t

We also recently did a messy and uneducated ramble about some spaces we were on a long time ago, which seems (based on what we've read from others) kind of like the intermediary of the old forum-based and the current timeline-based plural.cafe/@certifiedsystem/1.

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social media community stuff 

@autistic_anthropologist
So at one point in your (fantastic and awesome!) presentation there was a little discussion re older / current social media and communities; I don't know about any actual research and was only barely on the tail end of older web, but I recently read this post mostly in context of fandom communities freedom-of-fanfic.tumblr.com/p

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Autistic Anthropologist

My talk was so great I love getting to infodump about this stuff and talk to others about their experiences!

Thanks to everyone who came!

If you missed it, I'll be uploading a recording with captions sometime soon

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My talk is in 25 minutes now

If you meant to sign up but forgot or didn't have time I can send you the link if you let me know soon!

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My talk for Summer School is in about 3 hours!

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Summer School

Coming soon: 2021-08-03 at 12:00 PM UTC

@autistic_anthropologist presents:

Online communities and neurodivergence

Sign up here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

(Graphics by @csepp)

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Summer School

PSA: if you're having trouble with doing time zone conversions for talks, this calendar will convert them to your local time zone: cloud.scholar.social/index.php

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Summer School

Coming soon: 2021-07-30 at 9:00 PM UTC

@kclegacion presents:

Convivial social media: A comparative case study of Twitter and Mastodon from a degrowth perspective

Sign up here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

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Summer School

Coming soon: 2021-07-30 at 1:00 AM UTC

@ljwrites presents:

The Feminist Pansori: Women's dignity and worth explored in traditional Korean musical theater

Sign up here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

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Autistic Anthropologist

I'll be presenting my work on online neurodivergent community based on a survey distributed here on the Fediverse at the Summer School conference! You may have taken the survey

If you'd like to attend my talk or any of the other excellent talks at the conference this year you can sign up via the link in the posts I just boosted!

My presentation will be on August 3 at 7 PM UTC and I look forward to seeing some of you there

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Autistic Anthropologist

Great talk from @pelagikat just now about developing a model for sustainable development with a community!

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Summer School

What talks are y'all excited to attend? If you haven't signed up yet you should do that here!! There's still a week left!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

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Oh oops I kind of fell of the map here after submitting my thesis edits lol

I think I just needed a break from academic stuff for a while, but yeah my thesis was accepted and I graduated with honors!

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I'll be presenting my work on online neurodivergent community based on a survey distributed here on the Fediverse at the Summer School conference! You may have taken the survey

If you'd like to attend my talk or any of the other excellent talks at the conference this year you can sign up via the link in the posts I just boosted!

My presentation will be on August 3 at 7 PM UTC and I look forward to seeing some of you there

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Summer School

Hello!! is open for participant signups :BlobCatSurprised:

This year we have talks about delightful computing! philosophy and Star Wars! online communities and neurodivergence! and more!!!

Come to class: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

(graphics by @csepp)

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Muninn 🍃

"This study, called for by autistic people and led by an autistic researcher, is the first to explore ‘autistic inertia,’ a widespread and often debilitating difficulty acting on intentions. [It] is unique in considering difficulty initiating tasks of any type in real life settings, and by gathering qualitative data directly from autistic people."

“No Way Out Except From External Intervention”: First-Hand Accounts of Autistic Inertia

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33

#Autism #ASD #ActuallyAutistic

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