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  2. Discrimination against autistic people - Wikipedia

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    Representation of autistic people in media has perpetuated myths about autism, including characterizing autism as shameful and burdensome for family members, advertising fake cures for autism, and publicizing the long-disproven arguments surrounding vaccines and autism. These myths are perpetuated in mass media as well as news media and social ...

  3. Controversies in autism - Wikipedia

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    The scientific consensus is that there is no relationship, causal or otherwise, between vaccines and incidence of autism, [17] [18] [16] and vaccine ingredients do not cause autism. [19] Nevertheless, the anti-vaccination movement continues to promote myths, conspiracy theories and misinformation linking the two. [20]

  4. Autism in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The popular book Population One: Autism, Adversity, and the Will to Succeed [22] was released by 17 year old American author Tyler McNamer in August 2013. In the UK, April 2014 saw the BBC broadcast an episode of Horizon entitled "Living with Autism", featuring Uta Frith. [23] [24] The French novel La Surface de reparation was released in 2015.

  5. Why People Believe Debunked Claims about Vaccines and Autism

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    The vaccine-autism link is more than a myth—it is a wish. For some parents of autistic children, a vaccine-autism relationship is tantalizing because it nurtures the hope of recovering from autism.

  6. Ambitious about Autism - Wikipedia

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    Ambitious about Autism is a UK national charity which aims to improve opportunities for young people on the autism spectrum. Originally established in 1997 as the TreeHouse Trust, the charity was founded by a group of parents – including author Nick Hornby – whose first child had been diagnosed with autism.

  7. Autism Awareness Campaign UK - Wikipedia

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    According to their website, Autism Awareness Campaign – United Kingdom was started in 2000 "to campaign on behalf of parents, carers, children and adults with autism and Asperger's syndrome, for better public services in health, education, specialist speech therapy and respite care; for independent research into the causes of autism; for greater public awareness on Autism and Asperger's ...

  8. Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related Communication ...

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    In 1993, Jones et al. [10] stated that there was insufficient use of the TEACCH approach in the UK to include it in their study of interventions. [11] In 2003 it was reported that Gary B. Mesibov and Eric Schopler describe TEACCH as the United Kingdom's most common intervention used with children with autism. In Europe and the United States, it ...

  9. From ‘Aspie supremacy’ to vaccines: The toxic autism politics ...

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    The anti-vaccine myths — and the idea, along with them, that autism can be triggered or cured in otherwise neurotypical people — may have been largely debunked. But they have now entered our ...