Max Gattie

UK Research Council funded PhD student, on the project "The role of misidentification of own speech in persistent developmental stuttering".

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@JonathanShedler Wasn’t this first published a while ago? Good article.

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@DanielPhilips1 @NeilDotObrien @timleunig The separation between biosciences and medicine appears heroic. The suggestion seems to be that, based on “value to the taxpayer” we should only use the medical treatments already available and can give up on the search for new or better ones?!

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@HoustonOilers7 @Erekosse @suedeHQ @AlbumDayUK I’d agree with you about Suede in general. That’s what makes the situation with the LP cover so perplexing. As I’ve suggested, they could repair the situation in a reissue, and I think it would be to their credit if they did so.

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@HoustonOilers7 @Erekosse @suedeHQ @AlbumDayUK Suede might have done better to include the uncropped photo elsewhere in the artwork. Doing so could have challenged preconceptions (e.g. the preconception that the figures on the cover are both able-bodied). Perhaps they'll do so in a reissue – here's hoping.

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@HoustonOilers7 @Erekosse @suedeHQ @AlbumDayUK The faces in the photo have indeterminate gender identity. As I recall, this was a factor in their selection for the LP.

However, such photos are not difficult to source or create. The controversy came with the deliberate decision to crop out an identifier of disability.

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@HoustonOilers7 @Erekosse @suedeHQ @AlbumDayUK Disabled people are under-represented whereas able-bodied people are not. Suede’s LP cropped an iconic photo with a clearly disabled person to remove the identifier of disability. Doing so can be interpreted to reinforce under-representation of disability. Why do this?

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@redhistorian It’s a very unpleasant campaign strategy. But also difficult to counter, since it combines performative cruelty with a reasonable concern about Biden’s fitness for office.

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@redhistorian Trump is almost certain to use cognitive impairment as an attack strategy against Biden in the campaign. And, there is some evidence of cognitive impairment for Biden. Highlighting Biden’s stuttering is an effective way to create the framing that Trump wants.

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@DmitryOpines That’s about it. When I worked in the British central government, the TP strategy was targeted at rank and file who were just competent enough to want to keep. It wasn’t used on high flyers.

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@constantgarden4 @JDaviesPhD @JonathanShedler Sure, but that's just bad practice. The OP was about whether there can ever be a principled basis for diagnosis of delusions.

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@JDaviesPhD @JonathanShedler The OP overlooks social aspects, and that someone must have requested diagnosis. If the patient, it was likely due to worry over behaviour. Alternatively, an authority may request diagnosis, justified on the basis that behaviour was not acceptable to society.

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@mykola Sometimes there is already a preferred internal candidate, but the HR process requires that external candidates are also considered. If the interview process contains extensive prep work, this is needlessly cruel and wastes a lot of time.

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@psychgeist52 @Philosophy_ATM @JDaviesPhD TLDR; something like DSM but without the curative emphasis?

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@psychgeist52 @Philosophy_ATM @JDaviesPhD I can see how a refusal to question the legitimacy of the DSM would be problematic. However, what about when DSM classifications are used as a starting point for discussion?

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@psychgeist52 @Philosophy_ATM @JDaviesPhD Is some type of formal classification (not necessarily DSM or ICD) a precursor to any discussion of neurodivergence? If not, what is the basis for the proposed divergence? For example, would we all be equally neurodivergent?

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@cmaccoinnich @DrRJChapman The tweet summary ranks top ten topics – I was commenting on that bit. Happy to agree with the intention of the article ("nothing about us without us"). My worry is that sampling might mean that some important perspectives remain "without".

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@cmaccoinnich @DrRJChapman What I'd suggest is analysing the data qualitatively. So, whatever is suggested becomes prospective topics for research, but there is not a list of the "most popular" or anything like that. Because of the bias issues, the data won't support quantitative analysis.

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@cmaccoinnich @DrRJChapman Yep, that's about the best anyone will do. An unbiased sampling frame would use randomisation and stratification across the entire autistic population, and doing so is not usually feasible/affordable (e.g. unless it's nested in a whole population survey or similar).