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It was founded by Stuart Duncan, a web developer in Timmins, Canada whose son is diagnosed with autism, and is known in-game as AutismFather. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Autcraft was created so such children could play their favourite game with others without facing the threat of bullying and discrimination .
The Neurodiversity Movement grew largely from online interaction. The internet's design lent well to the needs of many autistic people. [34] People socialized over listservs and IRCs. Some of the websites used for organizing in the Neurodiversity Movement's early days include sites like Autistics.Org [35] [36] and Autistic People Against ...
Students and families walk to support Autism Awareness Month. Wikipedia is the ultimate honeypot! If a group of researchers had been given the task of creating a working/hobby environment specifically designed to attract autistic people, they could not have come up with anything better than Wikipedia!
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]
Autism Alert Cards, for example, are available for autistic people in London, England, UK so that police and emergency personnel will recognize autistic individuals and respond appropriately. The cards, which encourage autism-friendly interaction, have a couple of key points about interacting with autistic people.
Autistic people are also less likely to graduate from secondary school, college, or other forms of higher education, further contributing to high rates of unemployment and lower quality of life. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] This failure to successfully complete education can be in part attributed to a lack of support from educational institutions.
Singer's 1998 thesis Odd People In: The Birth of Community Amongst People on the Autistic Spectrum, [33] wherein she had first coined the term neurodiversity, was republished as Neurodiversity: The Birth of an Idea in September 2017. [34] Pablo is a British pre-school children's TV program about an autistic boy. It was first aired in October 2017.
Autistic masking is the act of concealing autistic traits to come across as neurotypical, as if behind a mask. Autistic masking, also referred to as camouflaging, is the conscious or subconscious suppression of autistic behaviors and compensation of difficulties in social interaction by autistic people, with the goal of being perceived as neurotypical.