The Map is not the Territory, Especially in Walkable Cities

 Fascinating twitter thread from Katie Pennick, who is campaigns manager at UK accessibility charity Transport for All:

TLDR: Getting about in Amsterdam as a wheelchair user is significantly worse than in London. And despite all the claims of the cycling lobby that it's the model for the city of the future, it's actually made worse by the cyclists, not better.

Interesting Autism Research Papers

I haven't read much more than the first few pages of either, but there's a couple of autism papers I've seen threads about in twitter in the past couple of days (the second by its author), that really caught my eye as interesting.

Autism, Girls & Keeping it All Inside

TLDR: The way autistic people raised as girls don't outwardly present the classical behavioural markers of autism contributes to under-diagnosis of autism in people raised as girls.

“Autism research is in crisis”: A mixed method study of researcher’s constructions of autistic people and autism research

TLDR: This looks like an epic piece of research into how autism researchers view autistic people. To quote the first author's thread: "To put it politely - the data was a shit show. ... 60% of responses contained dehumanizing, objectifying and stigmatizing attitudes towards autistic people - often portraying autistic people as lacking in complex emotions, agency, uniquely human-traits, community, identity, culture, or warmth. It was stomach churning to read" and "snapshot of results: while controlling for career length, and other contact with autistic people (familial & non-familial), medicalized approachs to autism predicts a significantly higher odds of ableism, while involving autistic people more in research predicts lower odds"