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•NHS GP + GPwER ADHD. •Associate Professor @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social / @sussex.ac.uk. •Research Lead, Autistic Doctors International. •Autistic/ADHD/dyslexic/hEDS. •Views my own, no medical advice. #MedEd #Neurodiversity He/him 🏳️‍🌈

Seb Shaw

"There is an urgent need to redesign frontline homelessness services to improve accessibility for neurodivergent people. In keeping with our emancipatory approach, we suggest that coproducing these efforts with neurodivergent people is vital"

🗞️NEW PAPER🗞️ Congrats @autimedic23.bsky.social! The experiences of autistic medical students in relation to seeking and receiving online support “It gave me a lot of courage… I felt a sense of… belonging somewhere” Read free: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @autisticdoctor.bsky.social #MedEd

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New research out: Experiences of Autistic Doctors Transitioning into Clinical Practice in the UK: A Phenomenological Study. Keenan, J., Doherty, M., & Shaw, S. C. K. (2026). The Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 1–15. doi.org/10.1080/1040... @autisticdoc.bsky.social @autisticdoctor.bsky.social

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Seb Shaw

Wonder what an analogous study would reveal about the US residency system?

4mo

Call for participants! We are currently recruiting for participants to take part in a survey exploring autistic people and non-autistic peoples’ experiences of breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in the UK to see if there are any differences or similarities in their experiences.

Unhoused ND folks "described patterns of persistent exclusion—starting in early life—that had paved the way to homelessness. Once in need of housing support, they found significant barriers to accessing services that had been designed by/for neurotypical people.” theconversation.com/how-gaps-in-...

Thriving Autistic

Help us improve #UK emergency departments (A&E) The NEEDs Project is researching the experience of #emergency #healthcare. Take our anonymous survey (approx 15 mins) or choose another way to take part. Link: EDSurvey.link @autisticdoc.bsky.social @jopavlopoulou.bsky.social @grrand-team.bsky.social

#AutRes Being Autistic made me a better floor nurse and makes me a better prescriber & diagnostician 💯 Autistic healthcare professionals could fill the staffing shortage (read: labor crisis) if we paid fair wages, had universal healthcare, and accepted more PT positions w/in healthcare settings.

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🗞️NEW PAPER🗞️ “Society doesn’t care about you”: a qualitative life-mapping study of neurodivergent people’s experiences of homelessness Read free: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social @ndtihello.bsky.social

“You very much feel like a number on a list, just like a piece to move around the board, and not like a human with your own thoughts, feelings, plans.” “There’s like dissonance between what you want to do and what you feel is right versus what the environment requires at the time.”

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Dhruv Srinivasachar MD

Autistic Experiences of Breast Cancer research project

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism

Ben Potts

it’s me, aslynn

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Seb Shaw

Autistic doctors bring valuable contributions to healthcare but face challenges like managing healthcare’s unpredictable nature and difficult colleague interactions. Significant life changes, such ...

doi.org

The Experiences of Autistic Doctors Transitioning into Clinical Practice in the UK: A Phenomenological Study

Many autistic characteristics (especially attention to detail, social nonconformity, monotropism, and knowledge of autism) set autistic health care professional...

journals.sagepub.com

Why We Need More Autistic Health Care Professionals and How to Support Them - Sara Eileen O’Neil Woods, 2026

How gaps in education, work and welfare support can push neurodivergent people into homelessness

Homelessness among neurodivergent people isn’t just about housing, it reflects repeated failures across support systems.

theconversation.com

🗞️🗞️NEW PAPER🗞️🗞️ Autistic doctors transitioning into practice: “I think medicine is really bad at times for insinuating that a certain sort of person is what they’re expecting to see” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @autisticdoctor.bsky.social @bsmsmedschool.bsky.social #MedEd #Neurodiversity

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Seb Shaw