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Stigmatization of autism can also be perpetuated by advertising from autism conversion organizations, such as Autism Speaks' advertising wherein a mother describes having considered murder-suicide in front of her autistic daughter or the NYU Child Study Center's advertisements where autism is personified as a kidnapper holding children for ransom.
The impaired social skills can be likely to interfere with the interview process—and people with often superior skills can be passed over due to these conflicts with interviewers. Once hired, autistic people may continue to have difficulty with interpersonal communications. [55] Homelessness is very common among autistic people. [55]
Given the serious consequences that plagiarism has for students, there has been a call for a greater emphasis on learning in order to help students avoid committing plagiarism. [83] This is especially important when students move to a new institution that may have a different view of the concept when compared with the view previously developed ...
For example, NeuroTribes author Steve Silberman noted a lack of research in regards to seizure-controlling drugs and autistic brains; that sensory differences in autistic people were unheard of until Temple Grandin spoke about her experiences; and that only a small percentage of research funding goes towards the needs of autistic adults.
Encouraging discussion of a special interest can help autistic people develop social skills [23] and help them find social communities. [34] [35] Special interests may lead to social difficulties if the person does not want to discuss any other topic, and conversations may become one-sided [2] especially when infodumping. [36]
There are considerable similarities and overlap between autism and OCPD, [68] such as list-making, inflexible adherence to rules and obsessive aspects of routines, though the latter may be distinguished from OCPD especially regarding affective behaviors, bad social skills, difficulties with theory of mind and intense intellectual interests e.g ...
He donates portions of his album sales to the benefit advocacy organization, Autism Speaks. 7. Marty Balin. The founding member of rock band Jefferson Airplane overcame partial autism as a young ...
As with many neurodivergent people and conditions, the popular image of autistic people and autism itself is often based on inaccurate media representations. [2] Additionally, media about autism may promote pseudoscience such as vaccine denial or facilitated communication.