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The Same Chance report was based on two surveys were conducted on behalf of AsIAm – the first, by Core Research assessed public attitudes to autistic people by surveying 1,000 members of the general public. [2] The second survey was of 944 parents, carers and autistic people over the age of 18. [2]
Despite the growing diagnosis of autism, which has been estimated to affect more than 2 million children and teens across the country, experts and advocates have bemoaned glaring gaps in services ...
Like non-autistic people, autistic adults feel the need to be useful to society, and to experience a sense of comfort. [95] However, there are differences in expectations between autistic and non-autistic people: the absence of a circle of friends may be experienced as problematic by a non-autistic person, but not by an autistic person. [70]
Image credits: Crumplesock The author faces a choice of placing her son into care or splitting her family apart, but she’s unsure if she’s being unreasonable for considering those options
The neurodiversity paradigm is a view of autism as a different way of being rather than as a disease or disorder that must be cured. [39] [41] Autistic people are considered to have neurocognitive differences [33] which give them distinct strengths and weaknesses, and are capable of succeeding when appropriately accommodated and supported.
War on Autism: On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence is a book on the theoretical work of CAS. It was published in 2016. [4] Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness is a book on the theoretical work of CAS. It was published in 2018. [4] All the Weight of Our Dreams: On Living Racialized Autism is a book on the theoretical ...
Media portrayals of autism and violence negatively influence public opinion on autism [27] and foster negative impressions of autistic people by linking ASD with criminal behavior. [33] For example, an analysis of 100 French and Italian works of children's and young people's literature published between 1995 and 2005 featuring a main character ...
The theory of the double empathy problem is a psychological and sociological theory first coined in 2012 by Damian Milton, an autistic autism researcher. [2] This theory proposes that many of the difficulties autistic individuals face when socializing with non-autistic individuals are due, in part, to a lack of mutual understanding between the two groups, meaning that most autistic people ...