Helen Root

Duke Clinical Child-Autism Intern. Medical/Clinical Psych UAB. Autism, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, Peds Psych, Behavior, Genetic Disorders. Opinions=mine.

[Helen Root @HelenRoot4]

Loved my time at Duke for internship - great people and training!

[Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences @DukePsychiatry]

In the Duke clinical psychology doctoral internship program, interns can focus on adults or children and further specialize within each track. Interns appreciate being able to graduate with both a breadth and depth of knowledge and experience. Learn more: https://t.co/tU6dY6RE3w

[Meeting on Language in Autism @MtgLanguageASD]

🗣️Save the date: March 14-16th for MoLA2024!!

[Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences @DukePsychiatry]

Duke Psychiatry's Dr. Nancy Zucker & her team found promising results for a brief online intervention targeted at shifting how young adults engage with social media.
https://t.co/3UKnr2xK3O

[Helen Root @HelenRoot4]

Go @kate_p_king! So impressed with all of your accomplishments! Can't wait to see what internship holds for you!

[LAUNCH Lab @Murdaugh_lab]

Congratulations to @kate_p_king on her successful dissertation defense today! Developing an important model for understanding executive functioning in pediatrics. We are thrilled that Kate is off to internship! She is such an integral part of the LAUNCH lab and will be so missed!

[Helen Root @HelenRoot4]

Such a fun day with the Duke Blue Devils!

[Duke Center for Autism & Brain Development @DukeAutismCtr]

An incredible day celebrating #neurodiversities at the #Duke Center for #Autism Baseball Bonanza! ! Thanks to all our families who joined us & to the @DukeU Blue Devils Baseball players! #GoDuke @DukeBASE @GeriDawson @DukeHealth @DukePsychiatry

[SPP Network of Campus Representatives @SPP_NCR]

We also highlighted the work at the University of Alabama at Birmingham! Our NCRs @chmorgan820 & Corinne Evans hosted their wonderful Fall events, with the help of Zachary Arnold & Tolu Adetayo! 🎉

Way to go team! #thisispedspsych @SPPDiv54

[ellie middleton 🌻 @elliemidds]

if you’re an autistic person and you need to leave an event because of sensory overload/overwhelm: it is not a personal failure on your behalf, it’s an accessibility failure on their behalf

[Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe]

Filling out the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science (#APCS) survey and I guess I had a lot to say about the predoctoral clinical internship! Make it postdoc, make it in-house, but we need to mix it up. @PCSASNews #psychtwitter

[Casie H Morgan, PhD @chmorgan820]

Thank you to @psychgradwish for setting up such a supportive and meaningful resource for rising interns. Thank you #psychgradwishlist and thank you in advance to those able to contribute 🫶
Venmo: Casie-Morgan-1
Link: https://t.co/wTGl5TrZEM

[John Elder Robison @johnrobison]

Autism, Comunity, and the idea of a World Autism Month.
What even is that?
For some of us, the combination of autism and the Internet has led us to community we’d never have found otherwIse. For me, autism and the Internet has led to many online connections but those cannot overpower the crushing loneliness I feel so often, sitting in my room at night.
I’m tempted to say “I wish for real connections,” but the online connections are real, they just lack the intensity of face to face friends. And most of all, they don’t get me past the sadness that is so often a part of my life.
I do feel that my writing has touched many people and thousands have written to say how much it’s meant to them. But because of my autism, I cannot internalize those good feelings no matter how many times they are expressed. I can only use my logical brain to say there are a great number of positive affirmations, but logic has never made me feel good and it never will.
When I say I believe autism like mine is a stable heritable thing, I believe that is true and backed up by science. I believe evolution selects for some number of autistics like me because they benefit our species. But I also believe the personal cost to us as individuals is high. It hurts to be like me, much of the time. I’m happy in moments, but satisfaction with my life or prolonged contentment have always eluded me.
When I’m gone, I believe people will speak well of me. I did many positive things in my life. But if I had a chance to come back and try again - it would NEVER be as what I am. That is the oft-denied pain of autism that so many of us live with.
I believe my work to spread awareness and acceptance was righteous, and I think it opened doors and made a difference. But the community of autistic people and their families is so fragmented, and filled with people of such diverse beliefs and motivations that consensus is impossible and attacks are the order of the day on media like this. I‘ve lost the heart to fight or even to argue - it‘s the next generations time now.
As we move through this April, Autism Month, just remember that autistic people have both disability and exceptionality, both in greater measure than most non-autistics. Some of us have great gifts, while almost all of us live with great pain. There’s a tendency to glorify neurodiversity and autism, and for some, to deny disability. Don’t do that. We are what we are. We are just people, with good and bad points, and less ability to connect socially than most. Yet the world needs us. We need support and we need compassion, and love. There is precious little of that out there for most of us.

I wish you the best for Autism Month.

[Sarabeth Broder-Fingert MD, MPH @sbroderfingert]

New data: 1 in 36 children children age 8 are autistic. #autism @CDCgov https://t.co/M6k9NK62nU

[Kaitlin Riegler, Ph.D. @Kriegler25]

Internship edition update: The combination of burn-out, "senioritis," and the financial stress of planning for another move and the costs of applying for licensure/EPPP (along with trying to find time to study) in the final 4 months of training is really🤯

[Helen Root @HelenRoot4]

@andmarstan @UABNews Congratulations! I am graduating this summer but have loved my time at UAB - it is a great program with amazing people!

[Helen Root @HelenRoot4]

@kellytcosgrove @WeillCornell Thanks Kelly! Hope everything is going well for you on internship!

[Helen Root @HelenRoot4]

After spending time celebrating with family and friends, I'm honored to announce I've accepted a clinical postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Autism and the Developing Brain at @WeillCornell in White Plains, NY. So excited for this next step and to be back in the northeast!

[Helen Root @HelenRoot4]

@g_m_sherrod Thanks Gabriela! Can't wait to see all of the amazing things you do on internship at CHOP and beyond!

[Gabriella Ponzini, PhD @PonziniG]

Where is the "like all" option on Twitter!? All these #appicmatch tweets have me so excited for the future of clinical psychology.

If I haven't liked your match tweet yet - CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!

🥳💕🥂🌟🙌🥳

[Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein]

MATCH DAY is tomorrow for psych intern applicants! Remember, no matter what happens: you are amazing, brilliant, learned a ton about the field, and about yourself. Nothing that happens tomorrow can change that!! Good luck!

ps - don't bother checking email before 7:45am ET.

[Helen Tager-Flusberg @HelenTager]

Outstanding program and opportunity - go ahead and apply…

[Gabriella Ponzini, PhD @PonziniG]

Thinking of those preparing for #APPIC #MatchDay2023!

FWIW, my match day did not go as planned/expected & I wouldn't change a thing about where I'm at now, both personally and professionally.

Trust that you can/will make the best of any situation. We're all rooting for you🌟