(One high-profile example is the controversy with ‘Barnevernet’ – Norwegian social services – who are devastatingly more likely to remove a child from their parents in general, but especially if they have an autism diagnosis.) As a British autistic person, it was at least encouraging to ...
Little is known about the shared and separate traits for adults diagnosed with some form of psychopathy and autism. The primary distinction between a person with autism versus psychopathy is that a person with autistic traits is often unaware that their behavior is aversive to other people while ...
Japan versus UK: Impact of social camouflage on mental health in autistic adults As people with autism grow up, they face unique challenges. They find it difficult to deal with mental health issues. There is a big gap in understanding how pretending to fit in (known as social camouflage), ...
I guess the most honest answer is, like disabled versus person with a disability, some language seems to make some people feel safer and more empowered, and other language seems to make different people in the same marginalized group feel safer and more empowered, and those sets of language ...
Thus, in two independent human cohorts, a single normal variant in the AMBRA1 gene, rs3802890, is associated with autism-related behaviors predominantly in females. Consequence of AMBRA1-rs3802890-A versus G on mRNA expression in human PBMC and in silico prediction of potential underlying ...
To address this gap, we performed detailed characterisation of autistic behaviours in children with NF1 and investigated their association with other common NF1 child characteristics. Methods Participants were drawn from a larger cross-sectional study examining autism in children with NF1. The ...
Resonance Imaging (MRI). Other methods only use certain features of children, such as gaze or head posture, which may not provide a complete picture of the child’s condition. Therefore, more research is needed to improve the analysis, modeling, and classification of children with autism. ...
traits in utilitarian moral judgments in adults with autism Indrajeet Patil1,*, Jens Melsbach2,*, Kristina Hennig-Fast2 & Giorgia Silani1,2 This study investigated hypothetical moral choices in adults with high-functioning autism and the role of empathy and alexithymia in such choices....
Furthermore, within the Autistic community, debates over appropriate language use are frequent, including discussions on person-first language versus identity-first language, functioning language, and medical terminology. Through this research, I examine how rhetorical constructions of Autism gain power, ...
Hm. First, okay, clearly they’re studying a disorder, versus neurodivergent children. If they were studying the children, they’d say “examined empirically in autistic children” or “in children on the autism spectrum”. But they don’t. ...