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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!
The advantage of the theory is reducing pathologization of autistic people by identifying that everyone struggles to empathize with different neurotypes. It can also help neurotypical individuals to better understand how neurodivergent people think and empathize and to recognize their own limitations in empathizing with autistic people. [148]
Engaging in special interests can bring autistic people great joy [24] [25] and many autistic people spend large amounts of time engaged in their special interest. [26] In adults, engaging with special interests has been shown to have positive outcomes for mental health, [27] self-esteem, [28] and can be used to manage stress.
Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]
Many autistic people say that it doesn't make sense to say a person "has autism", because autism affects a person in their entirety, and cannot be separated from the person. Autistic disorder , high-functioning autism , Asperger syndrome , and PDD-NOS as diagnoses are all deprecated as parts of the autism spectrum and should be referred to as ...
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.
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.