Catherine M. Appert

feminist/scholar, would-be writer, seriously over the ableism of this all. have pronouns will travel. tweeting into the void + 40 or so

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

As a psychologist, what concerns me is that SARS-CoV-2 reinfections in perpetuity are damaging children (cognitive dysfunction, worsening health, bereavement, lower achievement). It's too painful for people to own that, so they'll blame tech & give away privacy in the process.

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

@autumnrain80 Good lord, so many men in these comments threatened by a beautiful woman simply stating what she needs.

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

Damn straight

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

FIFA having its corrupt way with every single city and country its ever touched until suddenly being shocked and stunned into submission by a final, even more corrupt thing: New Jersey

[wear a mask! @wrath_776]

Man the antimask left just zaps my hope for a better world more than any other group. You have the political framework to understand why this VERY SIMPLE thing matters and you just won't do it and have fits when anyone mentions it. Embarrassing clown shit.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Tennessee republicans voted unanimously to advance an anti-trans bill to create a public list of trans people located in the state.

House Bill 754 would force medical providers to provide information to the state and identify them.

(https://t.co/Szl2y8ahsm)

[✨🎶Kristennnn🍉✨ @singingsox]

“I think disabled/vulnerable ppl should just stay home & not have access to public life if they want me to wear a mask to protect myself & others during a mass disabling event that largely affects marginalized populations & intersects w every anti-capitalist issue”, but leftistly

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

@christasyd lol that’s exactly what I said to myself when I read this

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

@naomicfisher Ah yes, the “we’re all a little autistic” version of the spectrum. How embarrassing for you people.

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

Is the science in the room with us?

[Professor Dame Til Wykes @TilWykes]

@naomicfisher On #InternationalWomensDay2026 scientific contributions from thoughtful women like Professor Uta Frith should be treated with similar thoughtful consideration not knee jerk replies do you agree @AllenFrancesMD

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

Is autism the new hysteria? In this essay, I will . . .

[UnHerd @unherd]

THE FEMINISATION OF AUTISM, by Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk)

For decades, the developmental psychologist Uta Frith endorsed the idea of an autistic spectrum in her celebrated work on the condition. But in a new interview, she says that ‘the spectrum has collapsed’. Too many people with importantly varying characteristics are being included, and the concept is no longer a useful clinical tool.

She proposes ejecting a large subgroup of people from the autism club: those diagnosed during teens or later, without clear intellectual or communicative impairments, but who exhibit ‘hypersensitivity’ and ‘feel highly anxious in social situations’. Most of these, perhaps needless to say, are female.

The most recent wave of expansion of the autism category has been towards conditions emerging in female adolescents that bear scarcely any similarity to the original archetype at all.

This was the great feminisation of autism, and it really hasn’t helped.

Read more below ⬇️

https://t.co/ccZTzQ8gxQ

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

Exactly zero autism diagnoses are predicated on “anxiety” and/or “hypersensitivity”, even when it’s a lady autist, hope this helps.

[UnHerd @unherd]

THE FEMINISATION OF AUTISM, by Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk)

For decades, the developmental psychologist Uta Frith endorsed the idea of an autistic spectrum in her celebrated work on the condition. But in a new interview, she says that ‘the spectrum has collapsed’. Too many people with importantly varying characteristics are being included, and the concept is no longer a useful clinical tool.

She proposes ejecting a large subgroup of people from the autism club: those diagnosed during teens or later, without clear intellectual or communicative impairments, but who exhibit ‘hypersensitivity’ and ‘feel highly anxious in social situations’. Most of these, perhaps needless to say, are female.

The most recent wave of expansion of the autism category has been towards conditions emerging in female adolescents that bear scarcely any similarity to the original archetype at all.

This was the great feminisation of autism, and it really hasn’t helped.

Read more below ⬇️

https://t.co/ccZTzQ8gxQ

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

@iseeuliars Wish this was not so familiar.

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

@Nicole_Lee_Sch If you can afford it I highly recommend a floor lamp with a flexible neck rather than one of the square desktop ones. Much easier to adjust to be comfortable for your body which makes me way more likely to use it regularly.

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

“I am not available to evaluate qualifying exams during the summer. Plan to take your exams during the 9 month academic year if you’d like me on your committee.”

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

My hot take is that if you regularly, randomly, and without notice announce yourself unavailable to provide your advisees with standard things like letters and, you know, advising, you have no business taking on graduate students.

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

This is not complicated. “I will be unavailable during X period. Please set up an interfolio account and I will submit a letter prior to signing off work.”

[Catherine M. Appert @catappstrophic]

Can someone tell me the thing the rest of you have BEEN telling me but like in a way that doesn’t at all threaten my smug superiority or acknowledge what a POS I am?

[machine yearning engineer @confusionm8trix]

so is there anyone who’s not a crank or a scold that can tell me whether covid is giving us all some kind of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome? because it does sort of seem like that’s happening to some degree but it feels like the only people discussing it are cranks and scolds

[adam.tsuris @AdamTsuris]

Everyone denying the ongoing pandemic is making it easier for Israel to quietly use COVID as a tool of genocide. Your denial gives them cover.